Contents

Contents Introduction List of maps and illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Germany and the Lutheran Faith 1. A house divided: the post-Luther controversies and the Formula of Concord 2. Lutheran Orthodoxy 3. The Thirty Years' War: the holy text of pike and gun

4. Pietism: religion of the heart 5. Dawn of the Protestant missionary movement Important people Primary source material Chapter 2 The Reformed Faith Introduction 1. Reformed Orthodoxy 2. The Arminian controversy and the Synod of Dort

3. Amyraldianism: the debate that never died Important people Primary source material Chapter 3 England: The Puritan Era. Part One 1. Puritanism: The problem of definition

2. The origins of Puritanism and Separatism

3. Struggles and schisms: the Elizabethan odyssey 4. The Jacobean Church: of Bibles, Pilgrim Fathers, and High

Churchmen 5. Charles I and the English Civil War 6. The English Revolution: the world turned upside down

Important people Primary source material Chapter 4 England: The Puritan Era. Part Two 1. Charles II: the Restoration regime 2. James II and the Glorious Revolution Important people Primary source material Chapter 5 Scotland: The Crown Rights of the Redeemer

Introduction 1. Of presbyters and kings: from Andrew Melville to the union of crowns

2. South wind blowing: the Anglicizing of the Kirk 3. The Covenanters: days of power 4. The Covenanters: days of blood 5. James VII: Presbyterians victorious Important people Primary source material Chapter 6 The Roman Catholic Church. Part One 1. Introduction: the glory of France 2. Roman Catholic piety

3. Key figures 4. Jansenism: the war about grace Important people Primary source material Chapter 7 The Roman Catholic Church. Part Two 1. Gallicanism: who rules the French Church?

2. Quietism: to be or not to be mystical 3. Persecution: the fate of the Huguenots

4. Roman Catholic Mission: experiments in the East Important people Primary source material Chapter 8 Eastern Orthodoxy Introduction 1. Cyril Lucaris: the Calvinist patriarch?

2. Peter Moghila and his disciples 3. The Old Believers: schism in the heart of Russia

4. Peter the Great: the East looks West Important people Primary source material Glossary Bibliography

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