Wunderzeichen and Society in Late Reformation Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wunderzeichen and Society in Late Reformation Germany write by Ken Kurihara. This book was released on 2010. Wunderzeichen and Society in Late Reformation Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Miracles and the Protestant Imagination
Miracles and the Protestant Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miracles and the Protestant Imagination write by Philip M. Soergel. This book was released on 2012-02-03. Miracles and the Protestant Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Reformation's war against the saints and their miracles is well known. The story of the Protestant Reformers' embrace of natural wonders as miracles that could similarly spur piety and moral discipline is much less familiar. In Miracles and the Protestant Imagination, Philip M. Soergel examines the sixteenth-century Lutheran wonder books, works filled with accounts of monstrous births, celestial apparitions, natural disasters, plagues, and other seemingly aberrant events occurring in the natural world. Soergel traces the inspiration behind these books to a widespread appropriation of wonders that was taking place throughout late-medieval and early-modern Europe. As sixteenth-century rulers stocked their curiosity cabinets with all manner of strange and confounding bits of nature collected from the far corners of the globe, evangelical theologians, too, compiled enormous compendia filled with accounts of fantastic events long recorded in the natural world. Many embraced such tales to satisfy an innate curiosity about nature and its often incomprehensible processes, but Germany's devout evangelicals relied upon them to warn of imminent Apocalypse, to drive home the full scope of human depravity, and to encourage the repentant to keep the Law of an angry, Deuteronomic God. Luther had dismissed natural signs as inferior when compared against the testimony of the scriptures. Nevertheless, inspired by Melanchthon and other contemporaries who embraced history, natural philosophy, and rhetoric as proofs for Christian doctrine, the authors of late-Reformation wonder books fashioned natural signs into powerful defenses of treasured evangelical principles. In so doing, their works revealed the tensions as well as fears at play within a maturing Reformation movement as it faced mounting internal dissension and external pressures from Calvinism and resurgent Catholicism.
The Reformation of Ritual
The Reformation of Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reformation of Ritual write by Susan Karant-Nunn. This book was released on 2005-08-19. The Reformation of Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Susan Karant-Nunn applies the insights of anthrop- ologists to ritual change in the German Reformat- ion, finding that Church and state cooperated in using ritual as an instrument for imposing social discipline.
The Reformation and Rural Society
The Reformation and Rural Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reformation and Rural Society write by C. Scott Dixon. This book was released on 2002-05-02. The Reformation and Rural Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What was the effect of the Reformation movement on the parishioners of the German countryside? This book examines the reform movement at the level of its implementation - the rural parish. Investigation of the Reformation and the sixteenth-century parish reveals the strength of tradition and custom in village life and how this parish culture obstructed and frustrated the efforts of the Lutheran reformers. The Reformation was not passively adopted by the rural inhabitants. On the contrary, the parishioners manipulated the reform movement to serve their own ends. Parish documentation reveals that the system of parish rule diffused the disciplinary aims of the church and rendered the pastors impotent. A look at parish beliefs suggests that the nature of parish thought worked to undermine the main tenets of the Lutheran faith, and that the legacy of the Reformation was a dialogue between these two realms of experience.
Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany
Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany write by R. W. Scribner. This book was released on 1988-07-01. Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Reformation has traditionally been explained in terms of theology, the corruption of the church and the role of princes. R.W. Scribner, while not denying the importance of these, shifts the context of study of the German Reformation to an examination of popular beliefs and behaviour, and of the reactions of local authorities to the problems and opportunities for social as well as religious reform. This book brings together a coherent body of work that has appeared since 1975, including two entirely new essays and two previously published only in German.
