Description |
1 online resource (149 pages) |
Series |
Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Theology and piety ; v. 3 |
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Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Theology and piety ; v. 3.
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Contents |
short title page; title page; copyright page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Table of Abbreviations; Introduction; Bibliography; A Booklet of Comfort for the Sick, and On the Christian Knight; The Booklet of Comfort for the Sick; On the Christian Knight; Index of Biblical Citations; Index of Names & Places; Index of Subjects |
Summary |
Confronting death--as God's judgment on sin and as God's doorway to eternal life--and struggling as a ""Christian Knight"" against the devil, the world, and human desires: these two topics gave Johann Spangenberg, a close friend and devoted adherent of Martin Luther, the basis for one of the most popular pieces of devotional literature in the early years of the German Reformation. In this pamphlet published in the early 1540s, readers encounter an instrument designed to cultivate the piety of the Wittenberg Reformation among the common people, a piety that prepared for death (and thus for dail |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Notes |
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Subject |
Consolation -- Early works to 1800
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Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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Conduct of life
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Consolation
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Genre/Form |
Early works
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kolb, Robert, 1941-
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Spangenberg, Johann.
Vom Christlichen Ritter. English & German
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ISBN |
9780874623604 |
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087462360X |
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