Johannes Matthiae and the Development of the Church of Sweden during the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

The seventeenth century was a period of tremendous currents and cross currents of theological thought and ecclesiastical development. There were scholasticism and pietism; orthodoxy and liberalism; intolerance and tolerance; confessionalism and syncretism; hierarchy against clergy; state interests a...

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Main Author: Carlson, Martin E. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [1944]
In: Church history
Year: 1944, Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Pages: 289-309
IxTheo Classification:KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia
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Summary:The seventeenth century was a period of tremendous currents and cross currents of theological thought and ecclesiastical development. There were scholasticism and pietism; orthodoxy and liberalism; intolerance and tolerance; confessionalism and syncretism; hierarchy against clergy; state interests and church interests. These vital currents of thought were not confined to the mainland of the Continent, but were to be found also in the development of Swedish ecclesiastical thought and life. Some men were carried on rapidly by the fast moving streams while others were dragged down into the whirlpool of the conflict of ideas and destroyed. Johannes Matthiae, the Comenius of Sweden, was one of those who were engulfed by the conflict and brought to ecclesiastical defeat.
ISSN:0009-6407
Contains:Enthalten in: Church history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3160233