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Christianity in Europe: A General Scenario? A Review Article
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Christianity in Europe: A General Scenario? A Review Article: W.R. WARD. Christianity under the Ancien Régime, 1648-1789. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 269 pp., bibliography, index. $54.95 hardback; $19.95 paperback.
General scenarios of the long-term development of Christianity are still normally generated within, or indebted to, religious denominations. Explicitly or implicitly, an established or a gathered church will often structure its assumed model of the historical development of popular religiosity around the claims of that church's own ecclesiology and ecclesiastical polity. The alternatives to this shared pattern normally still come from outside …
