344 Pages
by
Routledge
This volume explores how elements of the medieval tradition were transformed into new claims of authority by the Reformation. In theological terms the volume examines how ecclesiastical, biblical and patristic authority were reinterpreted and applied by the reformers. Several essays treat the social context of the German Reformation: the communities which influenced Luther, the positive stance... Read more
Contents: Luther against the background of the history of biblical interpretation; The authority of scripture at work: Luther's exegesis of the Psalms; The use of scripture in establishing Protestantism: the case of Urbanus Rhegius; Validating the Reformation: the use of the church fathers by Urbanus Rhegius; Deparentifying the fathers, the reformers and patristic authority; In quest of the vera ecclesia: the crises of late medieval ecclesiology; ’We are all Hussites’? Hus and Luther revisited; Considering the clergy's side: a multilateral view of anticlericalism; Luther et la papauté; Urbanus Rhegius and the Augsburg Confession; Toleration of the Jews in the German Reformation: Urbanus Rhegius and Braunschweig 1535-1540; Christianizing domestic relations: women and marriage in Johann Freder's Dialogus dem Ehestand zu Ehren; Luther's loyalties and the Augustinian order; Luther's contribution to the disunity of the Reformation; Luther's communities; Martin Luther and Albrecht von Mainz: aspekte von Luthers reformatorischem selbstbewußtein; Luther's impact in the 16th century; Index.
Biography
Scott H. Hendrix
