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Penitence in the Age of Reformations

Penitence in the Age of Reformations

Hardcover

Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

General ChristianityGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0754600963
ISBN13: 9780754600961
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 22 2000
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This volume is comprised of thirteen essays that explore penitential teachings and practices from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Western Europe and its colonies. Together the essays reveal that in this period, penitence was an increasingly important force shaping the individual and society. Consequently, the authors argue, penitence is central to our understanding of early modern Christianity as it was taught and experienced in everyday life. From Germany to France and to the Americas, Catholics turned to traditional forms of penitence not only to save individual souls, but also to assert their confessional identity. For their part, Protestants established distinctive penitential approaches and institutions in accordance with their own understandings of sin and salvation.

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