Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm
Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm
Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
ISBN: 978-90-04-69566-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
This book argues that Lutheran and Catholic religious leaders in sixteenth-century Germany used Passion meditation to shape the faithful into Christian selves capable of navigating religious division and spiritual peril. Vincent Evener compellingly reveals how Lutherans transformed medieval motifs and practices of Passion meditation, and how Lutheran concerns, motifs, and techniques continually evolved. For instance, first-generation Lutheran reformers trained the faithful to read the present suffering and weakness of their church through the lens of Christ’s passion, but the practice eventually became threatening to Lutheran authorities. Evener also illuminates Catholic efforts in late sixteenth-century Bavaria to renew Passion meditation and devotion in distinctly Catholic forms that integrated inward and outward self, individual and community. This book is a fascinating study of how spiritualities and selfhoods were shaped by Reformation rivalries, anti-Jewish hostility, attitudes toward gender, devotional practices of imagination, mystical yearning, and more.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
