Religious Instruction for Children and Adolescents in the Early English Reformation
1984 ◽
Vol 35
(3)
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pp. 391-413
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Keyword(s):
In an article published inPast and Presentsome years ago, Professor Strauss drew attention to an area of activity that early sixteenth-century reformers considered to be of vital importance - evangelical effort amongst the young. The overwhelming impression left by this article and by a subsequent full-scale study of the indoctrination of the young in the German Reformation is that – in Professor Strauss's terms – failure, not success, was the dominant note.