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Author Soergel, Philip M

Title Miracles and the Protestant imagination : the Evangelical wonder book in Reformation Germany / Philip M. Soergel
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford studies in historical theology
Oxford studies in historical theology.
Contents The appropriation of wonders in sixteenth-century Germany -- Luther on miracles -- Nature and the "signs of the end" in Job Fincel's wonder signs -- Caspar Goltwurm on the rhetoric of natural wonders -- The polemics of depravity in the wonder books of Christoph Irenaeus -- Enduring models and changing tastes at century's end
Summary The wonder book was a new genre that appeared in the troubled years following Luther's death in 1546 and the outbreak of religious wars at mid century. Originally conceived as a kind of apocalyptic text intended to interpret the ''signs of the times'' during this uncertain period, these books were filled with accounts of celestial visions, comets, natural disasters, monstrous births, and other seeming signs and portents, events in which the hand of God was revealed. As the genre developed, Philip Soergel shows, its authors, mostly Lutheran divines, came increasingly to delve into the theology
Notes Includes index
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Subject Lutheran Church -- Germany -- Doctrines -- History -- 16th century
Curiosities and wonders -- History -- 16th century
Miracles -- History of doctrines -- 16th century
Christian literature, German -- History and criticism
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Lutheran.
Christian literature, German.
Curiosities and wonders.
Lutheran Church -- Doctrines.
Miracles -- History of doctrines.
Wunderzeichenbuch
Evangelische Theologie
Mirakel
Wundergeschichte
Mirakel.
Wundergeschichte.
Reformation.
SUBJECT Germany -- Church history -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054476
Subject Germany.
Deutschland
Deutschland.
Genre/Form Church history.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199844678
0199844674
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9781280593796
9780199932856
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