Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania 1517 - 1740

Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517-1740 presents a comprehensive thematic history of the rise and influence of the branches of Christianity that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation.

• Represents the only English language single-volume survey of the rise of early modern Protestantism from its Lutheran beginnings in Germany to its spread to America

• Offers a thematic approach to Protestantism by tracing its development within the social, political, and cultural context of early modern Europe

• Introduces innovative argument that the central dynamic of Protestantism was not its struggle with Catholicism but its own inner dynamic

• Breaks from traditional scholarship by arguing that the rise of Reformation Protestantism lasted at least two centuries

• Unites Old World and New World Protestant histories
  

Keywords: Protestants, Lutherism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, Catholicism