confessionalization

Thus confessionalization is often described as a development stage towards the centralised absolutist state of the 18th century and the modern welfare state.

Lutheran church organization and confessionalization (Britannica Online)

There are a number of reasons why the Mennonite community did not end up as the victims of a Lutheran confessionalization of Hamburg.

Johann Adam's time as Archbishop of Mainz is notable for advancing the confessionalization of the Archbishopric of Mainz.

David C. Fink, Divided by Faith: The Protestant Doctrine of Justification and the Confessionalization of Exegesis.

In Protestant Reformation history, confessionalization is the parallel processes of "confession-building" taking place in Europe between the Peace of Augsburg (1555) and the Thirty Years' War (1618-1649).

He completed his Habilitation there in 1977/78 with a case study of territorial societal history and "Confessionalization" (committee members Wolfgang Mager, Reinhart Koselleck and Bernd Moeller).

M. J. Haemig and Robert Kolb, "Preaching in Lutheran Pulpits in the Age of Confessionalization" in Kolb (ed.)

Driedger then considers whether the model of confessionalization developed by Ernst Walter Zeeden, Heinz Schilling, Wolfgang Reinhard and others can usefully be applied to early modern Hamburg.

Confessionalization was supported by monarchs and rulers in general, because after the Reformation had brought control over their territories' churches into their hands, they could exercise more power over their subjects by enforcing strict religious obedience.

Especially the Metz townsmen filed several petitions to the Imperial Diet, however, the retrieval of the lost Three Bishoprics was no longer a main concern of the disintegrating Empire during the ongoing confessionalization.

One explanation, called "Confessionalization" by historians of fifteenth century Europe, invokes examination of how the relation of church and state "mediated through confessional statements and church ordinances" lead to the origins of absolutist polities.

However ahistorical the terminology (cf. the latest semantical research of L. Hölscher), historians talk about the Early Modern period as a "confessional age" (first evidence: Ernst Troeltsch, 1906) and with good reasons use the terms of confessionalization and confessionalism.