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Discussions in History and Theology (Classic Reprint)
Discussions in History and Theology - Classic Reprint Author:George Park Fisher DISOUSSIONS THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW.* FRANCE, in the age when Protestantism was spreading in Europe, found herself in a place where two seas met. The ship of state did not go to pieces, like the vessel which threw St. Paul upon the coast of Malta, it had· to strugglc through a long and frightful tempest from which it barely escaped. In t... more »he other European countries the situation was different. There was intestine discord, but not to the same extent; or with consequences less ruinous. In Germany, the central authority was too weak to coerce the Lutheran states. The war undertaken by Charles V. for that purpose was brief, and comparatively bloodless. The :final issue was the freedom of the Protestants for a long period, until imperial fanaticism, in the early part of the seventeenth centnry, brought on the terrible Thirty Years' War, which exhausted what was left of the vitality of. the German Empire, and ended in the establishment of Protestant liberti
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THE MASSACRE OF ST BARTIIOLOMEW ?? ??? ? ? ?? ? ? ???? ?? 1; THE INFLUENCE OF TIlE OLD ROMAN SPIRIT AND RELIGION ON; LATTER CHRiSTIANITy ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??? 34; THE TEMPORAL KINGDOM OF THE POPES ??? ? ?? ? ???? ?? 68; THE COUNCIL OF CoNSTANCE AND THE COUNCIL OF TIlE VATICAN 101; THE OFFICE OF TIlE POPE AND HOW l1E IS CHOSEN ?????????? 141; THE RELATIO!)l OF PROTESTANTISlt AND 011' RoMANIBM TO :MODER~; CIVILIZATION ???????????????????????????????????????? 161; 'rHE RELATION OF TUllO CnUltCn OF ENGLAND TO THE OTHER PROTESTANT; BODIES ???????????????????????????????????? , 176; THE PHILOSOPIIY OF JONATHAN EDWARDS ????????????????????? 227; CUANNmo AS A PmLOSOPliER AND TnF:OLOGIAN ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? 253; fun: SVSTEY OF DR N W TAYLOR IN ITS CO~NECTION 'WITII; PRIOR NEW ENGLAND TllEOLOOY 285; TIlE AUGUSTINIA~ AND THE FEDERAL« less