Court Calvinism
Court Calvinism is a term from the history of the early modern period . It features a social structure in which the Fürstenhof of Calvinism or Reformed denomination is dominant, while the subjects almost completely another denomination belong.
The Electorate of Brandenburg is an outstanding example of Court Calvinism. After Elector Johann Sigismund's conversion to the Reformed Church in 1613, with a few exceptions , its population remained permanently with Lutheranism .
The term is not without controversy in research, since it ignores the people or groups of people who are often locally very influential (nobles with their estates, foreign traders, reformed exiles) of the Calvinist denomination.
literature
- Franz Josef Burghardt : Brandenburg 1608–1688. Court Calvinism and Territory Complex. In: Herman Johan Selderhuis , J. Marius J. Lange van Ravenswaay (eds.): Reformed Majorities in Early Modern Europe. Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-55083-0 , pp. 111-138.
- Stefan Ehrenpreis: Court Calvinism and Refugee Churches: Two Models of Religion and Politics. In: Ansgar Reiss (Ed.): Calvinism. The Reformed in Germany. An exhibition of the German Historical Museum Berlin and the Johannes a Lasco Library Emden. Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-940-31965-4 , pp. 142-154.
Web links
- Franz Josef Burghardt : Brandenburg 1613-1688. Court Calvinism and Territory Complex . (Lecture at the conference "Reformed Majorities in Early Modern Europe" in the Johannes a Lasco Library Emden 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Eberhard Gresch: Evangelisch-Reformierte in (East) Prussia . Revised and expanded version of the essay: In the focus of the history of the Reformation: Evangelical Reformed in (East) Prussia. Circular letter of the Association of Protestant East Prussia eV, No. 1/2011, pages 1–32, especially chap. 2.4.