TY - BOOK AU - Pearse,Meic TI - The age of reason: from the wars of religion to the French Revolution, 1570-1789 SN - 9781854247711 AV - BR 165 .P43 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford PB - Monarch Books KW - Church history KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - 18th century N1 - Contents; Christendom unraveling : the scene in 1570 and a glance backwards -- Contested territory : the areas of conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism (1570-1609) -- Life on the frontiers (1570-ca. 1610) -- The conflict within churches : Protestants -- The conflict within churches : Catholics and the Orthodox -- Meltdown : the cataclysm of 1618-1648 -- Fractions of fractions : the progress of sectarianism -- The rise of Pietism -- The cross, the crescent, and the star : Christians and Jews under Ottoman rule in the Balkans -- Misruling one another -- Latin America -- North America : toleration and nontoleration -- North America : coming to terms with pluralism -- The great awakening -- Reason and power : rationalist thought and the divine right of kings -- The arts ER -