History
Emil Sehling
Die evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI. Jahrhunderts
Zweiundzwanzigster Band: Nordrhein-Westfalen II. Das Erzstift Köln. Die Grafschaften Wittgenstein, Moers, Bentheim-Tecklenburg und Rietberg. Die Städte Münster, Soest und Neuenrade. Die Grafschaft Lippe (Nachtrag)
Begr. v. Emil Sehling, fortgeführt von der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, hrsg. v. Eike Wolgast. Bearb. v. Sabine Arend
[The Protestant Church Ordinances of the 16th Century. Volume 22: North Rhine-Westphalia II. The Archbishopric of Cologne. The Duchies of Wittgenstein, Moers, Bentheim-Tecklenburg and Rietberg. The Cities of Münster, Soest und Neuenrade. The Duchy of Lipp]
2017. XIV, 619 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-155139-0
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Published in German.
The 16th century's protestant church ordinances originated against a backdrop of reformatory upheaval. They established regulatory structures by redefining church offices, liturgy, sermons and services according to new evangelical teaching. The North Rhine-Westphalia area represents a heterogeneous landscape when it comes to the introduction of the Reformation. It was not only strongly fragmented, but also confessionally diverse. In the 1530s, after numerous territorial lords and town magistrates had introduced the Reformation shaped by Luther, in the second half of the century, a number of princes initiated the shift to the reformed confession of faith leaning on John Calvin's theology.