Denuded devotion to Christ : the ascetic piety of Protestant true religion in the Reformation /
Much of the emerging protestantism of the sixteenth century produced a Reformation in conscious opposition to formal philosophy. Nevertheless, sectors of the Reformation produced a spiritualizing form of Platonism in the drive for correct devotion. Out of an understandable fear of idolatry or displa...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
James Clarke & Co.,
2013, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Much of the emerging protestantism of the sixteenth century produced a Reformation in conscious opposition to formal philosophy. Nevertheless, sectors of the Reformation produced a spiritualizing form of Platonism in the drive for correct devotion. Out of an understandable fear of idolatry or displacement of the uniquely redemptive place of Christ, Christian piety moved away from the senses and the material world - freshly uncovered in the Reformation.This volume argues, however, that in the quest for restoring ""true religion"", sectors of the Protestant tradition impugned too severely the ma. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 146 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9780227901861 022790186X |