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The Scandinavian Reformation
From Evangelical Movement to Institutionalisation of Reform
The first study in English of church, state and society during the Scandinavian Reformation.
Ole Peter Grell (Edited by)
9780521441629, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 24 November 1994
232 pages, 1 map
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.525 kg
"This volume is a welcome addition to the literature available in the English language devoted to the Scandinavian Reformation....the present volume greatly illuminates the English-speaking reader's understanding as to how and why the Catholic Church disappeared in Scandinavia within two decades of the onset of evangelical preaching." Trygve R. Skarsten, Church History
When Martin Luther's protest began making an impact in Scandinavia in the 1520s, this region belonged to the religious and political periphery of Europe. A century later the Nordic countries had become of paramount importance to European Protestantism, and it was the intervention of Lutheran Scandinavia in the Thirty Years' War which helped secure the survival of European Protestantism. This volume describes how the Nordic countries came to be solidly Lutheran states by the early seventeenth century; how the evangelical movements differed and succeeded, and the different pace of reform and its institutionalisation. It offers a revisionist view of the role of the Catholic Church in Scandinavia, and its attempts to halt the reformation, and demonstrates the difficulties facing the new Lutheran churches trying to convert a conservative, peasant population to Protestantism.
1. Introduction Ole Peter Grell
2. The Early Reformation in Denmark and Norway 1520–1559 Martin Schwarz Lausten
3. The Early Reformation in Sweden and Finland ca. 1520–1560 E. I. Kouri
4. The Catholic Church and its Leadership Ole Peter Grell
5. The Consolidation of Lutheranism in Denmark and Norway Thorkild Lyby and Ole Peter Grell
6. The Institutionalisation of Lutheranism in Sweden and Finland Ingun Montgomery
7. Faith, Superstition and Witchcraft in Reformation Scandinavia Jens Chr.V. Johansen
Index.
Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX]