The Reformation of Feeling: Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany

by Susan C. Karant-Nunn

Book Overview

In The Reformation of Feeling, Susan Karant-Nunn looks beyond and beneath the formal doctrinal and moral demands of the Reformation in Germany to examine the emotional tenor of the programs that the emerging creeds--revised Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism/Reformed theology--developed for their members. As revealed by the surviving sermons from this period, preaching clergy of each faith both explicitly and implicitly provided their listeners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199964017
• ISBN13: 9780199964017
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"