Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West

ISBN-13: 9781316647844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 538 str.

Christopher Ocker

Opis

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end. This book describes the main features of 'the matter of Martin Luther' in its original environment, and it poses an argument about the contributions of the conflict over Luther to the place of religion in European and post-colonial societies today.

Recenzje

'The book itself, in its paperback incarnation, is handsomely produced … Christopher Ocker's elegant and richly documented study also inspires a sense of déjà-vu, echoing the debates of the 1970s and '80s which pitted social historians of the Reformation against church historians …' David Bagchi, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The birth of an unconcluded controversy; 2. Calming the rebel masses; 3. The political anatomy of the Luther affair; 4. Rebel princes and religious wars; 5. Discriminations; 6. Three orthodoxies; 7. Many Martins; Epilogue. The global-historical Luther; Appendix: a table chronicling four processes that mark the parameters of the religious controversy over Luther to 1564.