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1 online resource (xvi, 305 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in the history of Christian thought, 0081-8607 ; v. 110 |
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Studies in the history of Christian thought ; v. 110. 0081-8607
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| Contents |
Chapter 1 Normative Centering in the 15th and 16th Centuries: Observations on Religiosity, Theology, and Iconology 1 -- I. Normative Centering: An Interpretive Category 1 -- II. The Normative Centering of Religion 4 -- III. Forms of Normative Centering: The Theology of Piety and Images of Piety 18 -- IV. Three Exemplary Images of Piety 24 -- V. The Centering of Piety around the Passion, Mercy, and Trust 32 -- VI. From the Centering of the Late Middle Ages to the Centering of the Reformation: Continuity and Upheaval 43 -- Chapter 2 Between Severity and Mercy. Three Models of Pre-Reformation Urban Reform Preaching: Savonarola -- Staupitz -- Geiler 50 -- I. Urban 'dirigenti religiosi' of the Reformation and Late Middle Ages 50 -- II. Girolamo Savonarola: Preacher of God's Severity 55 -- III. Johannes von Staupitz: Preacher of God's Mercy 65 -- IV. Johannes Geiler von Keysersberg: Preacher between Severity and Mercy 73 -- V. Looking On to the Reformation 86 -- Chapter 3 Volition and Inadequacy as a Topic in Late Medieval Pastoral Care of Penitents 88 -- I. The Harrowing Question at the End of the Middle Ages 88 -- II. The Typical Solution provided by Johannes von Paltz (1511): Where there is Inadequacy, a Good Will Suffices 91 -- III. The Further Lowering of the Minimal Requirement: If there is no Good Will, then Desiring to Desire is Enough 95 -- IV. Exoneration -- a Trend of the Late Middle Ages 100 -- V. Four Lines of the Theological Tradition of Comforting Exoneration for the Weak and Troubled 105 -- VI. A Vigorous Theology of Mercy, circa 1500: Johannes von Staupitz in comparison with the Late Franciscan Tradition 114 -- VII. The Insufficiency of Human Satisfaction and the Infinite Value of the Satisfaction of Jesus Christ 120 -- VIII. The Reformation in the Context of the Late Middle Ages 125 -- Chapter 4 From the Medieval "Love of God" to the "Faith" of Luther -- A Contribution to the History of Penitence 128 -- I. The Twelfth-Century Turn to the Inner Feeling of the Love of God 128 -- II. The Late-Medieval Transformation in the Understanding of Love, Penance and Contrition 136 -- III. Johannes von Staupitz: the Significance of his Understanding of True Contrition for Luther 142 -- IV. Luther's New Understanding of Contrition: Faith is Love, but Love does not Justify 147 -- Chapter 5 Why did "Faith" become for Luther the Central Concept of the Christian Life? 153 -- I. The Question from the Medieval Perspective 153 -- II. The Medieval Understanding of Faith: the Levels of Faith, Humility and Hope 154 -- III. What Luther Means by Faith: the Question from the Perspective of the Judgement of God 163 -- IV. Luther's First Commentary on the Psalms: Faith as Humility and Hope 167 -- V. Results and Consequences 171 -- Chapter 6 What was the Reformation Doctrine of Justification? 179 -- I. Criteria for Defining the Reformation Doctrine of Justification 181 -- II. Medieval Catholic Doctrine 184 -- III. The Reformation Doctrine of Justification 189 -- 1. The Unconditionally Given Acceptance of Mankind 189 -- 2. Radical Sin 193 -- 3. Grace Preceding Perfect Righteousness 193 -- 4. Simul Instus et Peccator 196 -- 5. The Eschatological Final Validity of Justification 197 -- 6. The Certainty of Salvation 200 -- 7. Freedom and Absence of Freedom 201 -- 8. By Faith Alone 202 -- 9. The Bond Between Faith and the Biblical Word 205 -- 10. Breaking the Mold: the Contrast with Medieval Theology 207 -- 11. The Evangelical Understanding of the Person 208 -- IV. Luther's Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans as Evidence of the Reformation Doctrine of Justification 209 -- V. Further Prospects: the Intensification and the Boundaries of the Reformation Doctrine of Justification 213 -- Chapter 7 Reformation "from below" and Reformation "from above". On the Problem of the Historical Classifications of the Reformation 217 -- I. Widespread Conceptions of Types and Phases of the Reformation 217 -- II. Factors "from above" in the Broad Reformation Movement before 1525 224 -- 1. The 'prae' of the Educated Upper Strata of Society 224 -- 2. The Reformation of the Middle 227 -- 3. The Authoritarian Orientation of the Reformers before 1525 231 -- III. Factors of the Early Reformation Movement within the Later Government of the Church by Secular Authorities 240 -- 1. After-effects of the Reformation of the "Common Man" in the Authorities' Governance of the Church 240 -- 2. Theological Continuity 245 -- IV. The Outlook 250 -- Chapter 8 How Innovative was the Reformation? 254 -- II. Four Categories of Reforming Innovation 258 -- III. The Double Integrative Model: Long-term Change Integrated in Transition and Transition Integrated in Long-Term Change 266 -- Chapter 9 The Place of the Reformation in the Second Christian Millennium 273 -- I. The Effects of the Reformation and the Question of its Relevance 273 -- II. The Reformation as a Breach in the System 275 -- III. The Medieval Catholic Synthesis of Divine and Earthly 275 -- IV. The Reformation as Desacralization of the World and Humanity 278 -- V. The New Understanding of Holiness 280 -- VI. The Reformation as a Break in the Religio-historical Logic of Gift and Return 282 -- VII. The Reformation as a Continuation of Medieval Trends 285 -- VIII. Differing Kinds of Continuation of the Middle Ages: Qualitative Leap and Reinforcement or Acceleration 287 -- IX. The Reformation as a Driving Force of Modernization 289 -- X. The Relationship of the Reformation to Emancipative Modernity 291 -- XI. The Relationship of the Reformation to Repressive Modernity 295 -- XII. Summary: The Reformation as Engine and Interruption of Modernity 298 -- XIII. The Prospect: The Significance of the Reformation for the Future of Church and Society 299 |
| Summary |
Annotation This book comprises the first major collection of articles in English translation by University of Erlangen Professor Dr. Berndt Hamm, one of the most important and innovative scholars of the intellectual history of late-medieval and Reformation Germany. The articles herein trace the evolution of Christian theology and piety from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, employing a variety of disciplines and interpretative models to chart transformations with extraordinary attention to historical context. Hamm's intensive work with previously unknown sermon collections, devotional works, and pastoral care manuals from the later middle ages serves as the basis for a new appraisal of the lines of continuity and change between that era and the German Reformation |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Reformation.
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Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Christian life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Reformation.
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Christian life -- Middle Ages
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Church history -- Middle Ages
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Reformation
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Theology, Doctrinal -- Middle Ages
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Christendom.
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Reformatie.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bast, Robert James
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| ISBN |
9004131914 |
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9789004131910 |
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1423714334 |
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9781423714330 |
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9789047402442 |
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9047402448 |
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