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Church Discipline And Moral Reformation In The Thought Of Martin Bucer, Amy Nelson Burnett
Church Discipline And Moral Reformation In The Thought Of Martin Bucer, Amy Nelson Burnett
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Martin Bucer understood church discipline in a broad sense to include four elements: the religious instruction of children and adults through catechization and private confession or individual meetings between pastor and parishioner; a public profession of faith and obedience to the church and its ministers, ideally made when a child was confirmed; the practice of mutual fraternal admonition combined with the oversight of morals by pastors and lay elders; and the imposition of public penance and, if necessary, excommunication, in cases of grave public sin. Church discipline in this broad sense was intended to promote the individual Christian's progress in …
Review Of Christopher N. L. Brooke, The Medieval Idea Of Marriage, Carole Levin
Review Of Christopher N. L. Brooke, The Medieval Idea Of Marriage, Carole Levin
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Christopher N. L. Brooke's study serves as a fine complement and counterpoint to Georges Duby's The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Marriage in Medieval France (1983). Duby's innovative study looked at aristocratic marriage in medieval France within both a political and a religious and social and economic framework. Brooke, who has had a long career as a medievalist, has produced a more personal statement about his research into the meaning of marriage in the Middle Ages. There are two recurrent questions in Brooke's study: what is marriage, and is Christian marriage something different in its nature …
Weimar Culture And The Rise Of National Socialism: The Kampfbund Für Deutsche Kultur, Alan E. Steinweis
Weimar Culture And The Rise Of National Socialism: The Kampfbund Für Deutsche Kultur, Alan E. Steinweis
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Between 1928 and 1932, the National Socialist movement transformed itself from an insurgent fringe party into Germany's most potent political force. The most important factor in this dramatic turnabout in political fortunes was the rapid deterioration of the German economy beginning in 1929. It does not, however, logically follow that the German people simply fell into the lap of the party and its charismatic leader. To the contrary, the party aggressively employed sophisticated propagandistic and organizational strategies for attracting and mobilizing diverse segments of German society. With the onset of the economic crisis, and the consequent social and political turmoil, …