The Reformation of Faith in the Context of Late Medieval Theology and Piety

Essays by Berndt Hamm
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13191-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 110, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamm, Berndt

Bast, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Editor’s Foreword

1. Normative Centering in the 15th and 16th Centuries: Observations on Religiosity, Theology, and Iconology
2. Between Severity and Mercy. Three Models of Pre-Reformation Urban Reform Preaching: Savonarola – Staupitz – Geiler
3. Volition and Inadequacy as a Topic in Late Medieval Pastoral Care of Penitents
4. From the Medieval “Love of God” to the “Faith” of Luther – A Contribution to the History of Penitence
5. Why did “Faith” become for Luther the Central Concept of the Christian Life?
6. What was the Reformation Doctrine of Justification?
7. Reformation “from below” and Reformation “from above”. On the Problem of the Historical Classifications of the Reformation
8. How Innovative was the Reformation?
9. The Place of the Reformation in the Second Christian Millennium

Index of Persons and Places
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Berndt Hamm has been Professor für Neuere Kirchengeschichte at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1984. His numerous monographs include Frömmigkeitstheologie am Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts. Studien zu Johannes von Paltz und seinem Umkreis (1982); Zwinglis Reformation der Freiheit (1988), and Bürgertum und Glaube. Konturen der städtischen Reformation (1996).