The Reformation of Suffering

by Ronald K. Rittgers

Protestant reformers sought to effect a radical change in the way their contemporaries understood and coped with the suffering of body and soul that were so prominent in the early modern period. The reformers did so because they believed that many traditional approaches to suffering were not sufficiently Christian--that is, they thought these approaches were unbiblical. The Reformation of Suffering examines the Protestant reformation of suffering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199795088
• ISBN13: 9780199795086
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"