Luther at Leipzig

Martin Luther, the Leipzig Debate, and the Sixteenth-Century Reformations
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41462-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 218, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

On the five-hundredth anniversary of the 1519 debate between Martin Luther and John Eck at Leipzig, Luther at Leipzig offers an extensive treatment of this pivotal Reformation event in its historical and theological context. The Leipzig Debate not only revealed growing differences between Luther and his opponents, but also resulted in further splintering among the Reformation parties, which continues to the present day. The essays in this volume provide an essential background to the complex theological, political, ecclesiastical, and intellectual issues precipitating the debate. They also sketch out the relevance of the Leipzig Debate for the course of the Reformation, the interpretation and development of Luther, and the ongoing divisions between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattox, Mickey Leland

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mattox, Mickey

Serina Jr., Richard J.

Mumme, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Timeline: the Leipzig Debate

Contributors

Editors’ Introduction

part 1: Leipzig, 1519: the Leipzig Debate in Its Historical Context

1 The Leipzig Debate: a Reformation Turning Point

Volker Leppin and Mickey L. Mattox

2 Defending Wittenberg: Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt and the Pre-History of the Leipzig Debate

Alyssa Lehr Evans

3 Wittenberg’s Disputation Culture and the Leipzig Debate between Luther and Eck

Henning Bühmann

4 The Papacy’s Aversion to Councils in the Time of Leo X: Leipzig in the Context of Conciliarism

Thomas M. Izbicki

5 The Leipzig Disputation: Masters of the Sacred Page and the Authority of Scripture

Ian Christopher Levy

6 Frigidissima Decreta: Canon Law, Ecclesiology, and Luther’s Proposition 13

Richard J. Serina, Jr.

part 2: After Leipzig: the Implications of the Leipzig Debate

7 Philip Melanchthon and the Earliest Report on the Leipzig Debates

Timothy J. Wengert

8 Papalism at Stake in the Leipzig Debate

Bernward Schmidt

9 A Genealogy of Dissent: Luther, Hus, and Leipzig

Phillip Haberkern

10 Councils after Leipzig: Luther’s Interpretation of Nicaea from the Leipzig Disputation to On the Councils and the Church (1539)

Paul Robinson

11 Luther’s Later Ecclesiology and the Leipzig Debate

Jonathan Mumme

12 The Catholic Reception of the Leipzig Disputation

Michael Root

Appendix: The Disputation between John Eck and Martin Luther (1519)

A Select Translation

Carl D. Roth and Richard J. Serina, Jr.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mickey L. Mattox, Ph.D. (1997), Duke University, is Professor of Historical Theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has published Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs: Martin Luther’s Interpretation of the Women of Genesis in the Enarrationes in Genesin, 1535–1545 (Brill, 2003).

Richard J., Serina Jr., Ph.D. (2014), Concordia Seminary, teaches religion at Concordia College New York. He is the author of Nicholas of Cusa’s Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform (Brill, 2016).

Jonathan Mumme, Dr. theol. (2013), University of Tübingen, is Associate Professor of Theology at Concordia University Wisconsin. He has written Die Präsenz Christi im Amt: Am Beispiel ausgewählter Predigten Martin Luthers, 1535–1546 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015).