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- Title
"Re-establishing the True Worship of God": Divinity and Religious Violence in France after the Edict of Nantes.
- Authors
Sandberg, Brian
- Abstract
Post-Tridentine Catholic devotional practices shaped the worldview of French Catholics. That worldview, which defined the relationships between God and human community, motivated Catholic warrior nobles to engage in violence to purify communities and reestablish Catholicism. Violent campaigns led by southern French nobles to restore Catholicism by force made any rapprochement between Calvinists and Catholics impossible. The Edict of Nantes was not intended to establish religious toleration; it was intended to halt civil warfare and to provide conditions for the restoration of the Catholic Church. For devout Catholics, the edict was a way to advance God's Church. The period from 1598 to 1629 represents a distinct phase in the history of French Catholicism: Catholic religiosity was closely linked to violence but also to an optimistic vision of successful reform and restoration.
- Subjects
DIVINITY of Jesus Christ; GODS; WORSHIP; RELIGION; PRACTICAL theology; RELIGION &; justice
- Publication
Renaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 2005, Vol 29, Issue 2/3, p139
- ISSN
0034-429X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33137/rr.v41i2-3.9527