Protestants And Mysticism In Reformation Europe

Author : Ronald K. Rittgers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004393188
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe written by Ronald K. Rittgers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe, edited by Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener, is a research handbook on the Protestant reception of mysticism, from the beginnings of the Reformation through the mid-seventeenth century.

Author : Helen Parish
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719061585
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Superstition in Reformation Europe written by Helen Parish and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superstition" is one of the most fought over terms in the history of early modern popular culture, especially religious culture, and is also one of the most difficult to define. This volume offers a novel approach to the issue, based upon national and regional studies, and examinations of attitudes to prophets, ghosts, saints, and demonology, alongside an analysis of Catholic responses to the Reformation and the apparent presence of "superstition" in the reformed churches. It challenges the assumptions that Catholic piety was innately superstitious, while Protestantism was rational, and suggests that the early modern concept of "superstition" needs more careful treatment by historians.

Author : Vincent Evener
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190073209
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enemies of the Cross written by Vincent Evener and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enemies of the Cross examines how suffering and truth were aligned in the divisive debates of the early Reformation. Vincent Evener explores how Martin Luther, along with his first intra-Reformation critics, offered "true" suffering as a crucible that would allow believers to distinguish the truth or falsehood of doctrine, teachers, and their own experiences. To use suffering in this way, however, reformers also needed to teach Christians to recognize false suffering and the false teachers who hid under its mantle. This book contends that these arguments, which became an enduring part of the Lutheran and radical traditions, were nourished by the reception of a daring late-medieval mystical tradition the post-Eckhartian which depicted annihilation of the self as the way to union with God. The first intra-Reformation dissenters, Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt and Thomas Müntzer, have frequently been depicted as champions of medieval mystical views over and against the non-mystical Luther. Evener counters this depiction by showing how Luther, Karlstadt, and Müntzer developed their shared mystical tradition in diverse directions, while remaining united in the conviction that sinful self-assertion prevented human beings from receiving truth and living in union with God. He argues that Luther, Karlstadt, and Müntzer each represented a different form of ecclesial-political dissent shaped by a mystical understanding of how Christians were united to God through the destruction of self-assertion. Enemies of the Cross draws on seldom-used sources and proposes new concepts of "revaluation" and "relocation" to describe how Protestants and radicals brought medieval mystical teachings into new frameworks that rejected spiritual hierarchy.

Author : Associate Professor of Reformation and Luther Studies Vincent Evener
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190073190
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enemies of the Cross written by Associate Professor of Reformation and Luther Studies Vincent Evener and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present book argues that Martin Luther and his first allies and intra-Reformation critics (Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt and Thomas Müntzer) appealed to suffering to teach Christians to distinguish between true and false doctrine, teachers, and experiences. In so doing, they developed and deployed categories of false suffering, in which suffering was received or simply feigned in ways that hardened rather than demolished self-assertion. These ideas were nourished by the reception of teachings about annihilation of the self and union with God received from post-Eckhartian mysticism. Luther, Karlstadt, and Müntzer developed this mystical inheritance in different directions, each of which intended to shape Christians for differing forms of ecclesial-political dissent: Luther redefined union with God as a union through faith and the Word, and he counselled Christians to endure persecution as divine work under contraries; Karlstadt described union with God as "sinking into the divine will," and he upheld this union as a post-mortem goal that required, here and now, constant self-accusation and improvement on the part of the individual and the community; Müntzer looked for God to possess souls according to the created order, making Christians into actors for the execution of God's will on the earthly plane. The democratization of mysticism that so many scholars have attributed to these reformers' teachings involved a delimitation: mysticism joined to Reformation teaching was used to identify false experiences, false teachers, and ultimately false Christianity"--

Author : Anne Fremantle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Protestant Mystics written by Anne Fremantle and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018420
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reformation Europe written by Ulinka Rublack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first survey to utilise the approaches of the new cultural history in analysing how Reformation Europe came about.

Author : Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
Publisher : Cleveland : Meridian Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 written by Geoffrey Rudolph Elton and published by Cleveland : Meridian Books. This book was released on 1964 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the conditions and events of the period, and analyzes the personalities of Martin Luther and Charles 5th.

Author : Ronald K. Rittgers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199795088
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reformation of Suffering written by Ronald K. Rittgers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestant reformers sought to effect a radical change in the way their contemporaries understood and coped with the suffering of body and soul that were so prominent in the early modern period. This book examines the genesis of Protestant doctrines of suffering among the leading reformers and then traces the transmission of these doctrines from the reformers to the common clergy. It also examines the reception of these ideas by lay people.

Author : Elaine Fulton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016572
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for Authority in Reformation Europe written by Elaine Fulton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'problem of authority' was not an invention of the Protestant Reformation, but, as the essays contained in this volume demonstrate, its discussion, in ever greater complexity, was one of the ramifications (if not causes) of the deepening divisions within the Christian church in the sixteenth century. Any optimism that the principle of sola scriptura might provide a vehicle for unity and concord in the post-Reformation church was soon to be dented by a growing uncertainty and division, evident even in early evangelical writing and preaching. Representing a new approach to an important subject this volume of essays widens the understanding and interpretation of authority in the debates of the Reformation. The fruits of original and recent research, each essay builds with careful scholarship on solid historiographical foundations, ensuring that the content and ultimate conclusions do much to challenge long-standing assumptions about perceptions of authority in the aftermath of the Reformation. Rather than dealing with individual sources of authority in isolation, the volume examines the juxtapositions of and negotiations between elements of the authoritative synthesis, and thereby throws new light on the nature of authority in early-modern Europe as a whole. This volume is thus an ideal vehicle with which to bring high quality, new, and significant research into the public domain for the first time, whilst adding substantially to the existing corpus of Reformation scholarship.

Author : Edward Maslin Hulme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance the Protestant Revolution and the Catholic Reformation in Continental Europe written by Edward Maslin Hulme and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: