Europa als Gegenstand und Horizont der Kirchengeschichte
This article argues for a greater alignment between the pursuit of Church History and the study of Europe at large, not as an alternative to the search for a global historical view but as something that is complementary to it. Currently the discussion of Europe´s heritage is dominated either by an a...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2009
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2009, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 139-155 |
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| Summary: | This article argues for a greater alignment between the pursuit of Church History and the study of Europe at large, not as an alternative to the search for a global historical view but as something that is complementary to it. Currently the discussion of Europe´s heritage is dominated either by an accentuation of the Christian heritage, which tends to promote something of a return to pre-modern times, or the assertion of Europe as a purely secular enterprise. But in the seventeenth century, in particular, a vision of Europe at large was one which coincided with new realities of injustice, war and violence. Today, concepts of Europe often describe a union which is not a matter of history, but something yet to be achieved. The diversity of European life is to be acknowledged and accepted, not dissolved. In this context, Protestant theology, too, must frame new and positive categories of thought. In particular, research should concentrate on the history of Europeanization itself, and look for new points of contact with other areas of research which explore questions of cultural transfer. Thus far, research on confessionalization has created the impression that it made a largely negative contribution in terms of European unity. However, it was in the period 1650-1750 that a new, and programmatic, interest in the idea of Europe occurred, and it can be seen as a Protestant innovation, too. In this strain, a succession of articles by Hugo Grotius, Johann Amos Comenius and Pierre Bayle show how distinctive a role was played by denominational thinkers during these years. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/kize.2009.22.1.139 |