Medieval Heritage and Modern Realities in Protestant-Jewish Relations

Like most revolutions, the Protestant Revolution of the sixteenth century changed the existing socio-cultural realities far less than appears on the surface. To the Reformers themselves and most of their contemporaries the new ideas sounded startlingly novel, and their realization promised to alter the existing social and political structures to their very foundations. In fact, however, except for the overt changes in certain dogmatic and ritualistic postulates, specifically advocated by the new champions of Reform, life proceeded largely along accustomed lines

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