We Shall Not Leave Our Path. The Situation of East-Bohemian and Haut-Languedocian Protestant Communities
Abstract
The campaign of Catholic reconversions, which culminated in Bohemian lands after 1620 and in France after 1685, was in none of these countries entirely successful. In few locations some secret Protestants survived and their presence played a significant role in the evolution of European spiritual history during the Enlightenment.
The book provides a first attempt to compare the two models of the recatholicisation and offers two examples of existence of the illegal Protestant groups in the 18th century. Despite very different living conditions both religious groups used similar concessions and compromises, as well as similar offensive strategy against the forces of the Catholic church and the absolutist state.
The author focuses on finding common points as well as differences in everyday life and piety of East-Bohemian and Upper-Languedocian secret Protestants. Everything is analyzed with regard to the contemporary doctrinal and intellectual currents