Contenuto libro
A word from the Moderators; Foreword; A DIASPORA OF DISSIDENTS (1170 - 1532) - Valdesius and the "Poor" (A man named Valdesius; The "Poor"; On notice...); The years of crisis (The Lombards; Toward definitive condemnation; Bergamo); In the Italy of the communes (Between Guelfs and Ghibellines; Francis of Assisi; The Waldesian commune; Toward a theology); Toward the Baltic (In the lands of the Empire; Artisans and merchants; A familial piety; Waldesians and witches); The bastion of the Alps (To the mountains! Rebels with a cause; Theology of the two ways; To the south beyond the Alps); The Waldesian - Hussite "International" (The Bohemiam revolution; The "International"; Relentless Inquisition); The Reformation (Luther and the Waldesians; Chanforan); THE PROTESTANT OUTPOST (1532 - 1689) - Revolution's hour (A Protestant Piedmont? "Rise up and build a church anew!";Martyrdom); Scorched earth and massacre (In Provence; In Calabria); War of Religion (The enigmatic Emanuele Filiberto; A watershed parchment without a name); Counter - Reformation Europe (Lesdiguières' Huguenots; Friars and debates in the squares; Geneva and Huguenot France); A time of visitations (Violence and war abounding; Onerous laws, paper wars, scholarly works; The plague); A springtime of blood (The circle closes; ...and still more massacre; Janavel, Puritan rustic; Protestant Europe outraged; Outlaws); Exile (The shadow of Versailles; The January edict; Three days with destiny; The "unconquerables"; From prison to exile); Repatriation (Alliances in search of a new Europe; The long march; The longest day); THE ALPINE GHETTO (1689 - 1848) - The Ghetto is born (The curtain falls; The ghetto; Farmers and the elite); The revolution (Liberty's tree; The Napoleonic interlude); Restoration (Back to 1730? A bishop's challenge; Friendly pilgrims and diplomats; The Great Revival; The general; The fateful year 1848); ACROSS ITALY! (1848 - 1945) - Italy, my country (The quest for full liberty; "Either you are missionaries, or..."; The discovery of Italy; The heroic decade); The Protestant factor (In step with the liberals and Masons; Evangelization's hour; Cultural life; To the Americas; The little world of "educated farmers"); The New Italy (Falling behind in new times; In the wake of WWI, in the dark night of the Concordat); A THOUSAND TONGUES TO SING: THE METHODIST EXPERIENCE IN ITALY (1859 ONWARD) - Risorgimento and the Great Revival; In pursuit of "Christian civilization"; The Free Church and "masonic evangelism"; Into the new century: democracy under fire; Through Fascism's dark tunnel; Rebuilding: toward a new Methodism in Italy? A CHARGE TO KEEP: THE WALDESIAN EXPERIENCE IN LATIN AMERICA (1857 ONWARD) - Transplanting: from the old to the new world (1857 - 1877) (Emigration - a matter of survival; The promised land; The firs settlement in Uruguay); Consolidation and expansion (1877 - 1955) (Daniel Armand Ugón; The launch in Argentina; The early 1900s; The education priority; Emigration to Argentina); Assimilation and reorganization (1955 onward) (From an immigrant church to a naturalized church; The training of pastors; Tension and conflicts; Specialized ministries; For one another: freedom and responsability); WALDESIAN - METHODIST DISCIPLESHIP IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1945 ONWARD) - Bittersweet times; Going through changes; The challenge of secularication; The Vatican Council and Catholic dissenters; On the Protestant front; An autonomous region; The twelve tribes of Israel; Waldesian is beautiful... Three currents; Set free for discipleship; Editor's end notes; For further reading; The Waldesian church: Administrators since emancipation, 1848; Administration; Specialized ministries; Voices in 1980s.