De Nederlanden En De Vroege Reformatie En Europees Perspectief: Transport, Transformatie En Diffusie: The Netherlands and the early Reformation in a European perspective: transference, transformation, and diffusion.
The Reformation was in many respects a European event. During the 16th century nearly every corner of the European continent came into contact with reformational thought. In order to establish to what extent a particular part of Europe, in this case the Netherlands, played a role in the process of t...
| Published in: | Trajecta |
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
1992
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Trajecta
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| Further subjects: | B
Netherlands
B Europe B Reformation B Diffusion |
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| Summary: | The Reformation was in many respects a European event. During the 16th century nearly every corner of the European continent came into contact with reformational thought. In order to establish to what extent a particular part of Europe, in this case the Netherlands, played a role in the process of the Reformation, an investigation was carried out into the "transport" of reformational ideas, their subsequent transformation, and finally their dissemination from cultural and religious centers to all layers of the population. In the period before the Reformation, Dutch movements such as "modern devotion" and biblical humanism spread over Europe. These movements were congenial to reformational thought in some respects, but whether they actually helped to spread the ideas of the Reformation depends on the changes they underwent in different parts of Europe. During the early Reformation the Netherlands mainly played the part of recipient, importing the ideas of, especially, Martin Luther. These ideas were then incorporated in a predominantly popular and oral tradition of criticism of Christian piety. There were several effective channels for the dissemination of reformational ideas but ultimately the government's policy of repression proved too strong. That, together with the absence of any form of organizational structure, explains why no Lutheran Church came into being in the Netherlands in the period of the early Reformation. It was not until the 1530's-40's that independent religious communities appeared, completely separated from the Church of Rome: Mennonite communities in the Netherlands and the Reformed communities of Dutch refugees in other parts of Europe. |
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| ISSN: | 0778-8304 |
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