Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands 1544–1569

This book is a study of the relationship between ideology and social behaviour.

Phyllis Mack Crew (Author)

9780521088831, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2008

236 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.35 kg

"Anyone interested in the rise of the Reformed Faith in the Netherlands and the background to the Belgic Confession of Faith must read Phyllis Mack Crew's work on preaching and iconoclasm in the midsixteenth Netherlands." -Daniel, R/ Hyde, Mid-America Journal of Theology

This book is a study of the relationship between ideology and social behaviour. Professor Crew analyses the attitudes and characters of the Calvinist ministers who preached in the Netherlands in the mid-sixteenth century and their effect on the popular religious upheavals which occurred during the summer of 1566. The hedge-preaching and iconoclasm which erupted in the period before the Dutch Revolt have been the subject of considerable speculation among historians, who have have developed a variety of interpretations of these events. Professor Crew views the Troubles in the broader context of the international Calvinist movement and iconoclastic violence in France and England. She questions whether the Netherlands ministers were clearly and strongly Calvinist, whether they shared specific characteristics of personality, social status or education, and whether they were 'charismatic leaders' in the sense given to the term by Max Weber.

1. The troubles
2. The ministers
3. The reformed movement 1544–1565
4. Exile
5. The consciousness of the reformed clergy
6. The ministers and the troubles.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]