The View from the Province. A Dilemma for Protestants in Germany, 1648–1918
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10084744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Hope (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 606-621 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046900075746 |
| OpenAlex | W2132890371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 3 |
Uber dem Berg gibst auch Leute. This ultramontane remark made in 1742 by Christoph Matthäus Pfaff, professor of theology and chancellor of Tübingen University between 1720 and 1756, was intended to shake students out of their cosy, provincial and exclusive Lutheran theology. It was time, so Pfaff argued, they opened windows, put aside their arrogant hair-splitting about correct Lutheran doctrine, and looked at the wider Protestant world beyond Württemberg. Knowledge of the sources of the Christian Church, and of the customs and legal shape of Protestantism in Germany as it had developed since the Reformation, provided the only sure defence of the Protestant Church in an age when autocratic behaviour was fashionable with princes, and the temporal authority of Popes Clement xi and Clement XII was still an inescapable fact
Aside · Autocracy · Democracy · Dilemma · Doctrine · Epistemology · Political science · Protestantism · Theology · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies
Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration
Cameralism and the sciences of the state
Political languages of the French Revolution
Encyclopedias and the diffusion of knowledge
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
Social contract theory and its critics
The comparative study of regimes and societies
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |