A Church History of Denmark

Martin Schwarz Lausten

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351962742
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The assertion written on the Great Stone of Jelling is that it was Harold (Bluetooth) who converted the Danes to Christianity in c.965. In this comprehensive survey, Martin Schwarz Lausten charts the fortunes of the church in Denmark from its very beginnings to the present day. Starting with the pagan society of the Vikings, Lausten describes how the Danes were introduced to the new religion prior to Harald's enthronement through their contact with Christian traders and missionaries, and in the encounters of the Viking raiders with Christian culture in France and England. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript, printed and pictorial sources, the book details how Church and Royal power transformed an ancient peasant society into a typical medieval state. Following chapters examine the impact of Luther and the Reformation on Danish society, and the shift in the struggles for authority between the Church and the State. The influence of the Humanist movement and the European Enlightenment are also examined in full, together with the issues they raised such as how the Church was to speak to the modern man who no longer took at face value the authority of the Bible. Lausten brings his survey right up to current times with an overview of the nineteenth-century revivalist movements, the Danish Church's response to the Jewish question during the German occupation, through to the present day establishment of the People's Church.

Index

Note: Page references in italics are to illustrations

Aagaard, Johannes 307

Aarhus 303, 307

abortion 301

Absalon, Archbishop 33–8, 42, 78

absolute monarchy 132–3, 229

absolution for sins 74

Åby church 26

Adalbert, Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen 18–20

Adaldag, Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen 13

Adam of Bremen 3, 5, 13–14, 18–19, 22, 24, 27, 39

Adolph, Johan V. 266

Ælnoth of Canterbury 14–15, 20

Aggesøn, Svend 79

Ahlefeldt, Godske 92

Albrecht, Duke 97

Alcuin 6–8

Alexander III, Pope 32

Allthings, the 42

Ålum-stone 23

Amalie, Princess 217

Ammundsen, Valdemar 270–72, 291–2, 298

ancestor cult 23

Andersen, J. Oskar 281

Andersen Beldenak, Jens 100

Anne Sophie, Queen 166

The Annex (periodical) 257

Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury 20

Ansgar 9–12, 10, 74

anti-clericalism 163, 269–70

Antworskov monastery 72

Appel, Jacob 280

Arab chroniclers 3, 5

Arboe-Rasmussen, N.P. 280

archaeological evidence 24, 33

archbishoprics

creation of 20–21, 28–9

in Norway and Sweden 30

power and authority of 52, 56, 90

Archking, title of 63

Arendt, Rudolph 308

Arndt, Johann 154

Arnfred, J. Th. 305

Arnold, Gottfried 162–3

Arnold of Lübeck 79

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Sources of illustrations
• Preface
• The Middle Ages
• The Reformation
• Orthodoxy
• Theology and Piety in the Reformation and Orthodoxy Periods
• Pietism
• The Period of Enlightenment
• The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• Selected bibliography
• Index