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The reformation of suffering. Pastoral theology and lay piety in late medieval and early modern Germany. By Ronald K. Rittgers. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xiv+482. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £45. 978 0 19 979508 6

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2013

Susan C. Karant-Nunn*
Affiliation:
University of Arizona

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References

1 Hendrix, Scott, Recultivating the vineyard: the Reformation agendas of Christianization, Louisville, Ky–London 2004Google Scholar. My characterisation of Hendrix places more weight on Re- in the title's first word than on Christianization. Rittgers does not, in fact, clearly distinguish between the two terms: see pp. 163, 164, 187, 229, 259.

2 Delumeau, Jean, Catholicism between Luther and Voltaire: a new view of the Counter Reformation, London 1977Google Scholar.