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The Imaginative World of the Reformation. By Peter Matheson. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000. xiv + 153 pp. $24.95 paper.

This book is based on the Gunning Lectures delivered by the author at Edinburgh in 1998. In those lectures Matheson attempted a new approach to the Reformation that would avoid the stalemate between doctrinal and social historians, and present the Reformation in a more accessible way. Instead of analyzing the Reformers' theology or scrutinizing their social reality in order to find rational explanations of religious change, Matheson proposed that we enter into ...

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