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This Special Issue will publish articles based on papers presented at the Teaching the Christian Intellectual Tradition Conference held at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, on October 6-8, 2016. The conference theme, Teaching the Reformations, explored pedagogical methods for integrating the study of the Reformations into undergraduate curricula, particularly but not exclusively into core curriculum and general education courses. The pedagogical focus of Teaching the Reformations will extend to the Special Issue and will differentiate this issue in the vast field of Reformation studies.
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This book proposes a simple framework for understanding the political economy of subsidy reform and applies it to four in-depth country studies covering more than 30 distinct episodes of reform. Five key lessons emerge. First, energy subsidies often follow a life cycle, beginning as a way to stabilize prices and reduce exposure to price volatility for low-income consumers. However, as they grow in size and political power, they become entrenched. Second, subsidy reform strategies vary because the underlying political economy problems vary. When benefits are concentrated, satisfying (or isolating) interest groups with alternative policies is an important condition for effective reform. When benefits are diffuse, it can be much harder to identify and manage the political coalition needed for reform. Third, governments vary in their administrative and political capacities to implement difficult energy subsidy reforms. Fourth, improvements in social protection systems are often critical to the success of reforms because they make it possible to target assistance to those most in need. Finally, the most interesting cases involve governments that take a strategic approach to the challenges of political economy. In these settings, fixing energy subsidies is central to the governments' missions of retaining political power and reorganizing how the government delivers benefits to the population. These cases are examples of "reform engineering" where governments actively seek to create the capacity to implement alternative policies, depoliticize tariffs, and build credibility around alternative policies. The most successful reforms involve active efforts by policy leaders to identify the political forces supporting energy subsidies and redirect or inoculate them.
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An entertaining and enlightening expose of over-inflated claims about the Reformation and what it has done for us, written by a Pulitzer Prize shortlisted historian of international standing. Containing scathing indictments of popular historical distortions and misrepresentations of the birth and legacy of Protestantism in the West, the book is a welcome antidote to all the triumphalist books on the Reformation flooding the market this year.
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This Special Issue will publish articles based on papers presented at the Teaching the Christian Intellectual Tradition Conference held at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, on October 6-8, 2016. The conference theme, Teaching the Reformations, explored pedagogical methods for integrating the study of the Reformations into undergraduate curricula, particularly but not exclusively into core curriculum and general education courses. The pedagogical focus of Teaching the Reformations will extend to the Special Issue and will differentiate this issue in the vast field of Reformation studies.
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This Special Issue will publish articles based on papers presented at the Teaching the Christian Intellectual Tradition Conference held at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, on October 6-8, 2016. The conference theme, Teaching the Reformations, explored pedagogical methods for integrating the study of the Reformations into undergraduate curricula, particularly but not exclusively into core curriculum and general education courses. The pedagogical focus of Teaching the Reformations will extend to the Special Issue and will differentiate this issue in the vast field of Reformation studies.
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How could the Protestant Reformation take off from Wittenberg, a tiny town in Saxony, which contemporaries regarded as a mud hole? And how could a man of humble origins, deeply scared by the devil, become a charismatic leader and convince others that the Pope was the living Antichrist? Martin Luther founded a religion which to this day determines many people's lives, as did Jean Calvin in Geneva one generation later. In this new edition of her best selling textbook, Ulinka Rublack addresses these two tantalising questions. Including evidence from the period's rich material culture, alongside a wealth of illustrations, this is the first textbook to use the approaches of the new cultural history to analyse how Reformation Europe came about. Updated for the anniversary of the circulation of Luther's ninety-five theses, Reformation Europe has been restructured for ease of teaching, and now contains additional references to 'radical' strands of Protestantism.
Reformation. --- Protestant Reformation --- Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- History
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"Volume 5 of the Annotated Luther series presents a number of Luther's writings that reveal the reformer's view of Christian life as it intersects with the world. The topics range widely from Luther's perspectives on marriage, schools and education, business and lending, war and serving as a soldier, the role of secular leaders, and his view of the Turks and the Jews"--Jacket.
Reformation --- Theology
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