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Heiko Oberman notes the impact of cultural history in his posthumously published book, The Two Reformations: "By moving from established politicla history to cultural and mentality studies, historians reestablished the crucial importance of religion, although they frequently marginalized it under the misleading category of popular religion. . . . Whereas Bismarckian Protestantism was dedicated to the Reformation miracle, with its perception of discontinuity, the best of our social historians have been working toward a paradigm of continuity that treats the Middle Ages and early modern times as one epoch, challenged but not disrupted by Luther and the Reformation."

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Thursday, May 04, 2006 at 03:04 PM

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