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Intro -- Other Books by This Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Prologue -- I. Patterns for the Past -- A Historians Past: Patterns of Thought and Religious Belief in Early America -- The Persistence of Piety -- Temperament and the Self -- Childhood, Temperament, and Religious Experience -- Toward a New Paradigm -- Part Two: The Evangelicals: The Self Suppressed -- II. Authoritarian Families: Modes of Evangelical Child-Rearing -- Pious Parents, Precious Mothers -- The Household -- Embryo-Angels or Infant Fiends? -- Broken Wills: Discipline and Parental Control -- Regular Methods of Living: External Discipline in Evangelical Households -- Shaping the Evangelical Conscience: Shame, Guilt, and Inner Discipline -- The Vanities, Pleasures, and Sins of Youth: The Emergence of Self and Self-Will -- III. "A Habitation of Dragons": Themes of Evangelical Temperaments and Piety -- The New Birth -- "Our Loathsome Corruption and Pollution": Attitudes Toward the Body -- "That Monster, Self" -- Broken Wills and Tender Hearts -- Authoritarian Temperaments: Evangelical Responses to Power -- Soldiers for Christ: Anger, Aggression, and Enemies -- Brides of Christ: Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality -- The Quest for Purity -- Part Three: The Moderates: The Self Controlled -- IV. Authoritative Families: Moderate Modes of Child-Rearing -- The Household Setting -- Innocent Infants -- Bending the Will: Moderate Discipline and Voluntary Obedience -- "Planting the Seeds of Virtue" in Childhood and Youth -- Love and Duty: The Obligations of Connection -- V. Sober, Virtuous, and Pious People: Themes of Moderate Temperaments and Piety -- A Sense of Connections: Organicism and the Chain of Being -- "This Contrariety in Man": The Frailties of Human Nature -- Self-Approbation and Self-Love.

A complete review of the main assets of the Lutheran Reform is undertaken, not only from a religious stand point, but also from it's political, cultural, educational and social implications for the Western World of Luther's times. In the religious field, subjects such as the mentality and ideology of the Middle Ages and the concepts of "christian freedom" and "theology of the cross", proposed by Luther as opposed to the Roman Catholic doctrine, are treated.Concerning politics, the article analyzes the separation between Church and State suggested by the reformer, an idea that opens the way for political Modernity, through the liberation of politics from the control of the Church, and the renewed confidence on reason to structure government. This opens the way for the modern concept of "freedom of conciusness" and for Human Rights in general. Concerning the economic and social aspects, the Lutheran criticism towards early capitalism is studied. With all these elements, it is suggested that Protestant Reformation is still alive in its criticism towards nowadays Globalization. ; Se lleva a cabo un recorrido por los principales aportes de la Reforma Luterana, no únicamente desde el punto de vista religioso, sino también de sus implicaciones políticas, culturales, educativas y sociales para el mundo occidental de su época. En el ámbito religioso, se da seguimiento a temas como el clima mental e ideológico de la Edad Media y a los conceptos de "libertad cristiana" y "teología de la cruz", que Lutero opone a la Iglesia Romana. En lo político, se analiza la separación entre la Iglesia y el Estado planteada por el reformador, la cual abre el camino para la Modernidad política al liberar lo político del dominio eclesiástico y depositar la confianza en la razón para estructurar el gobierno. Con ello, también se abre el camino para el concepto moderno de "libertad de conciencia" y para los Derechos Humanos en general. Por lo tanto, se afirma que la Reforma Protestante está en la base misma de la Ilustración del siglo XVIII. En el plano económico y social, se estudia la crítica de Lutero al capitalismo temprano. Con todos estos elementos, se plantea que la Reforma sigue viva en sus críticas al actual entorno globalizado.

Protestant Christianity has been a prominent part of the general religious resurgence in China in the past two decades. In many ways it is the most striking example of that resurgence. Along with Roman Catholics, as of the 1950s Chinese Protestants carried the heavy historical liability of association with Western domination or imperialism in China, yet they have not only overcome that inheritance but have achieved remarkable growth. Popular media and human rights organizations in the West, as well as various Christian groups, publish a wide variety of information and commentary on Chinese Protestants. This article first traces the gradual extension of interest in Chinese Protestants from Christian circles to the scholarly world during the last two decades, and then discusses salient characteristics of the Protestant movement today. These include its size and rate of growth, the role of Church–state relations, the continuing foreign legacy in some parts of the Church, the strong flavour of popular religion which suffuses Protestantism today, the discourse of Chinese intellectuals on Christianity, and Protestantism in the context of the rapid economic changes occurring in China, concluding with a perspective from world Christianity.