The Personal Luther

Essays on the Reformer from a Cultural Historical Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34887-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Overwhelmingly, Martin Luther has been treated as the generator of ideas concerning the relationship between God and humankind. The Personal Luther deliberately departs from that church-historiographic tradition. Luther was a voluble and irrepressible divine. Even though he had multiple ancillary interests, such as singing, playing the lute, appreciating the complexities of nature, and observing his children, his preoccupation was, as he quickly saw it, bringing the Word of God to the people.
This book is not about Luther’s theology except insofar as any ideational construct is itself an expression of the thinker who frames it. Luther frequently couched his affective utterances within a theological framework. Nor is it a biography; it does not portray a whole life. Rather, it concentrates on several heretofore neglected aspects of the Reformer’s existence and personality.

The subjects that appear in this book are meant to demonstrate what such core-taking on a range of mainly unexplored facets of the Reformer’s personality and experience can yield. It will open the way for other secular researchers to explore the seemingly endless interests of this complicated individual. It will also show that perspectives of cultural historians offer the broadest possible evidentiary base within which to analyze a figure of the past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karant-Nunn, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface

1 Luther’s Ego-documents: Cultural History and the Reconstruction of the Historical Self

2 Luther’s Conscience: A Template for the Modern West?

3 Luther’s Friendship with Frederick the Wise

4 Luther’s Relational God. Finding a Loving Heavenly Father

5 Fleshly Work. The Sex Act as Christian Liberty

6 The Masculinity of Martin Luther. Theory, Practicality, and Humor

7 The Tenderness of Daughters, the Waywardness of Sons. Martin Luther as a Father

8 Martin Luther’s Heart

9 Martin Luther’s Perfect Death

10 The Imprint of Personality upon the Reformation

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Ph.D. (1961), Indiana University, is Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, and Regents’ Professor of History, at the University of Arizona. She is author/editor of eleven books and seventy articles/chapters.