Wetzel / VolkswagenStiftung / Heal Radicalism and Dissent in the World of Protestant Reform

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-647-55258-3
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 275 Seiten

This volume of essays explores the themes of radicalism and dissent within Protestantism. The comparisons highlight the contingent nature of particular settlements and narratives, and reveal the extent to which the definition of religious radicalism was dependent upon immediate context and show that radicalism and dissent were truly transnational phenomena. The historiography of the so-called radical reformation has been unduly shaped by the hostile categories imposed by mainstream or magisterial reformers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This volume argues that scholars should adopt an open-ended understanding of evangelical reform, and recognize that the boundaries between radicalism and its opposite were not always firmly drawn. The distinction between the two is an inheritance of the Lutheran Reformation of the 1520s, which shaped not only the later course of the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire but also attitudes towards and writings on religious dissent in the Netherlands and England. Radical critique is immanent within mainstream Protestantism, in a faith that emphasizes the power of the gospel with its unrelenting demands.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wetzel, Anorthe

VolkswagenStiftung

Heal, Bridget

German Historical Institute, Library

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung, Religionskonflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Preface;8
5;Bridget Heal | Introduction;9
6;Hartmut Lehmann | Martin Luther’s Unruly Offspring: The Protestant Reformation and Radical Critique;16
7;I. Radicalism and the Early Reformation;26
7.1;Thomas Kaufmann | Radical Political Thought in the Reformation Era;28
7.2;Gerd Schwerhoff | Radicalism and ‘Invectivity’;37
7.3;Kat Hill | The Power of Names;54
8;II. Radicalism and the Established Reformations;70
8.1;Ethan Shagan | Radical Charity in the English Reformation;72
8.2;Susan Royal | Religious Radicalism in ‘Magisterial’ England;86
8.3;Alec Ryrie | Scripture, the Spirit and the Meaning of Radicalism in the English Revolution;101
8.4;Gary K. Waite | The Drama of the Two-Word Debate among Liberal Dutch Mennonites, c. 1620–1660;119
9;III. Writing Radical Histories;138
9.1;Michael Driedger | Against ‘the Radical Reformation’;140
9.2;Mirjam van Veen | Dutch Anabaptist and Reformed Historiographers on Servetus’ Death;163
9.3;Dmitri Levitin | ‘Radical’ History Writing in 1650s England: The Case of John Beale;174
10;IV. Radicalism Across Borders;200
10.1;John Coffey | ‘The Last and Greatest Triumph of the European Radical Reformation’?;202
10.2;Lionel Laborie | From English Trembleurs to French Inspirés: A Transnational Perspective on the Origins;226
10.3;Ulrike Gleixner | Millenarian Practices and the Pietist Empire;246
10.4;Jon Sensbach | The Radical Reformation and the Black Atlantic;258
11;Contributors;272
12;Editors;275
13;Hosts;276
14;Body;8