Description |
1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford studies in historical theology |
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Oxford studies in historical theology.
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Lutheran Church -- Germany -- Doctrines -- History -- 16th century
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Curiosities and wonders -- History -- 16th century
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Miracles -- History of doctrines -- 16th century
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Christian literature, German -- History and criticism
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Lutheran.
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Christian literature, German.
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Curiosities and wonders.
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Lutheran Church -- Doctrines.
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Miracles -- History of doctrines.
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Wunderzeichenbuch
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Evangelische Theologie
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Mirakel
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Wundergeschichte
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Mirakel.
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Wundergeschichte.
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Reformation.
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- Church history -- 16th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054476
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Germany.
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Deutschland
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Deutschland.
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Genre/Form |
Church history.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780199844678 |
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0199844674 |
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1280593792 |
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9781280593796 |
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9780199932856 |
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0199932859 |
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