Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Glossary -- 1 Peace and conflict: church and state in central and north-western Europe -- Christian and non-Christian belief -- Confessionalism and politics -- Confessionalism and coexistence -- Limitations to the Protestant guarantees -- Peace and the papacy -- Confessional Armageddon? -- The reconstruction of the Church of England -- The Protestant succession -- Church and State in France -- Regalian rights -- The Huguenots -- Huguenot reactions -- Apocalypse and resistance -- The Inspired -- Louis XIV and Quietism -- Jakob Böhme -- Peter Poiret -- Jansenism -- Saint-Médard -- Jansenism in the Low Countries -- 2 Christianity in southern Europe -- Italy and the balance of power -- The church in Spain -- The church in Portugal -- Catholicism in Italy -- Missions -- Alphonsus Liguori -- The Passionists -- The Catholicism of the people -- Canonisation -- Mariolatry -- 3 Catholicism in the Holy Roman Empire and the eastern Habsburg lands -- Witchcraft -- The imperial church -- Pietas Austriaca -- Baroque churches -- The reform of church organisation -- The Habsburgs and the Protestants -- Habsburg policy in Hungary -- The ecclesiastical states -- Town and country -- Anti-curialism -- 4 The religion of Protestants -- The Bible only? -- Arndt: meditation and reform -- Philipp Jakob Spener -- The class meeting -- Heartfelt Desires -- Opposition to Pietism -- Spener's theology -- August Hermann Francke -- Halle -- Francke's party -- The Reformed churches -- The United Provinces -- Reformed churches in the north-west of the Empire -- Switzerland -- Alternatives to Pietism -- The spiritualists -- Silesia and revival -- Breslau -- Swedish intervention -- The Grace churches: Teschen -- Bohemia -- Halle and Russia -- Schwedler and revival.

The persistence of Orthodoxy -- Löscher and Orthodox intellect -- Swiss high-Orthodoxy -- 5 Revival moves to the west -- Salzburg (1) Schaitberger -- Salzburg (2) The Defereggental -- Salzburg (3) The great emigration -- Salzburg (4) The consequences -- The Austrian Protestants: their options -- Hungarian Protestants -- Zinzendorf -- The Moravians -- The revival at Herrnhut -- Moravian migration -- Zinzendorf and Halle -- Zinzendorf and money -- Halle and Herrnhut in the Baltic region -- Internal difficulties of the Moravians -- Zinzendorf and the Inspired -- Revival in Switzerland -- Revival in Württemberg -- Tersteegen -- Revival in the United Provinces -- Revival in Britain -- John Wesley -- Revival in Wales -- Revival in Scotland -- The Methodist movement -- Achievements and limitations of revival -- 6 The Enlightenment and its precursors -- Public and private anxieties -- Atheism -- Opponents of atheism -- Physico-theology -- Physico-theology tested -- Christianity rational -- Spinoza -- Pierre Bayle -- The deists -- Anti-deism (1) Bishop Butler -- Anti-deism (2) David Hume -- The Enlightenment in France -- Voltaire -- The Jesuits -- Rousseau -- The Aufklärung -- Physico-theology in Germany -- Christian Wolff -- Semler -- Lessing -- Kant -- Frederick the Great -- Enlightenment in the Protestant churches of Switzerland and Germany -- Catholic Enlightenment in Germany -- Episcopalism -- The suppression of the Jesuits -- The ex-Jesuits -- Catholic higher education -- Josephinism before Joseph II? -- Joseph II -- The Patent of Toleration -- Reform in Tuscany -- Catholic Enlightenment in southern Europe -- 7 The Churches in northern and eastern Europe -- Muslim and Christian -- The northern empires -- Scandinavian Lutheranism -- The triumph of Catholicism in Poland -- Religious minorities in Poland (1) The Orthodox.

Religious minorities in Poland (2) The Lutherans -- Religious minorities in Poland (3) The Reformed -- The Orthodox churches in Russia -- Bishops and monks -- Successors to Peter the Great -- Cultural accommodation -- 8 Religion after the Seven Years War -- Confessional Armageddon forgotten? -- The decline of confessional absolutism in France -- The Commission des reguliers -- The rise of the parish -- The decline of parish life -- The parish clergy -- Marian congregations -- The church and the French Revolution -- Catholicism outside France -- Religious orders -- Policy in the Church of England -- Political and social problems in Britain -- The narrowing of the Anglican mind -- The Kirk and assimilation -- The fruits of security in Protestant Germany -- Collegialism -- Church attendance -- The Deutsche Christentumsgesellschaft -- Suggestions for further reading -- Index.