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Archbishop Eskil
Author_Martin Schwarz Lausten
Bishop Mynster
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Cathedral Chapter
Christian II
Christian III
church-state relations Denmark
Congregational Councils
Danish Archbishop
Danish Church
Danish ecclesiastical history research
Danish People's Church
Danish People’s Church
Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
Den Danske
Enlightenment religious impact
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Erik Ejegod
Erik Emune
hans
Hans Egede
Hans Tausen
jutland
Knud Lavard
Layman's Movement
Layman’s Movement
lutheran
Lutheran orthodoxy studies
lyhne
Middle Age
niels
Niels Lyhne
orthodoxy
palladius
peder
Peder Palladius
People's Church
People’s Church
Pietism in northern Europe
Reformation in Scandinavia
Regin Prenter
south
South Jutland
Svend Estridsen
tausen
Viking religious transformation
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754603078
- Weight: 748g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jul 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The assertion written on the Great Stone of Jelling is that it was Harold (Bluetooth) who converted the Danes to Christianity in c.965. In this comprehensive survey, Martin Schwarz Lausten charts the fortunes of the church in Denmark from its very beginnings to the present day. Starting with the pagan society of the Vikings, Lausten describes how the Danes were introduced to the new religion prior to Harald's enthronement through their contact with Christian traders and missionaries, and in the encounters of the Viking raiders with Christian culture in France and England. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript, printed and pictorial sources, the book details how Church and Royal power transformed an ancient peasant society into a typical medieval state. Following chapters examine the impact of Luther and the Reformation on Danish society, and the shift in the struggles for authority between the Church and the State. The influence of the Humanist movement and the European Enlightenment are also examined in full, together with the issues they raised such as how the Church was to speak to the modern man who no longer took at face value the authority of the Bible. Lausten brings his survey right up to current times with an overview of the nineteenth-century revivalist movements, the Danish Church's response to the Jewish question during the German occupation, through to the present day establishment of the People's Church.
Martin Schwarz Lausten, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
