Tracing the Jerusalem Code: Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) - Hardcover

Oftestad; Eivor Andersen; Haga; Joar

 
9783110634877: Tracing the Jerusalem Code: Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3110634872 ISBN 13: 9783110634877
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2021

Synopsis

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code, in this volume focussing on Jerusalem's impact on Protestantism and Christianity in Early Modern Scandinavia.

Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes
Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536)
Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750)
Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

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About the Authors

Eivor Andersen Oftestad and Joar Haga, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, Norway.



Eivor Andersen Oftestad und Joar Haga, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, Norwegen.

From the Back Cover

This volume studies the transformation of the Jerusalem code during the aftermath of the Protestant reformation in sixteenth-century Scandinavia. Now, the paradigm of justification by faith legitimated both holiness and authority, and determined who were the chosen people of God. This book observes the effects of the reformation through perceptions of Jerusalem in visual art, maps, city plans, sermons, poetry, hymns, historiography, and other material. Part 1 investigates how the Jerusalem code still provided political leaders with models of authority and strategies of legitimation. Part 2 examines the reorientation and transformation of historiography and sacred geography in the wake of the reformation. Part 3 explores the Jerusalem code as a tool to explain history and to discipline the chosen people. Part 4 analyzes representations of Heavenly Jerusalem and the New Jerusalem in the seventeenth century.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3110634872
ISBN 13 
9783110634877
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
506