Peace in the Post-Reformation

by John Bossy

Overview

Christians are supposed to love their neighbors, including their enemies. This is never easy. When feud and honor are common realities, it is even harder than usual. This book sketches the history of human (not political) peace-making in four countries of western Europe (Italy, France, Germany, and England) between the Reformation and the eighteenth century, and in their various religious institutions. The stories are variations on a theme: a "moral tradition" finding its way between the Scylla of reforming zeal and the Charybdis of civil society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521640619
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/05/1998
Series:	Birkbeck Lectures , #1995
Pages:	116
Sales rank:	771,183
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.43(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Italy; 2. France; 3. Germany; 4. England.

Editorial Reviews

"Bossy's lectures on the moral tradition are well worth reading because of the ideas they provoke about the analysis and impact of peace in post-Reformation Europe." Renaissance Quarterly

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