The Peace of Augsburg and the Meckhart Confession: Moderate Religion in an Age of Militancy

ISBN-13: 9780367204495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 342 str.

Adam Glen Hough

Opis

This book explores the underappreciated role of local clergy in mediating and interpreting the Peace of Augsburg in the decades following its 1555 enactment, focusing on the efforts of the preacher Johann Meckhart and his heirs in blunting the cultural impact of confessional religion.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. That Forgotten Place Between Heaven and Hell: Resistance and Compromise During the Augsburg Interim  3. The Sin Unconfessed: Meckhart and the Act of Confession  4. Dance of the Augsburg Preachers: The Melhorn Controversy and the Culture of Confessionalization  5. The Meckhart Confession: Negotiating Moderation  6. A Rudderless Ship in Stormy Seas: Conflict, Crisis, and Concord at the Dawn of the Confessional Age  7. Hellhounds in the House of Fugger  8. The Path of Resistance: Augsburg’s Divergent Evangelical Responses to the Counter Reformation  9. The Calendar Riot: Conceptually Expanded, Contextually Explored  10. Caught in No-Man’s Land: The Vocation Controversy  11. Conclusion

O autorze

Adam Glen Hough is a graduate of the University of Arizona’s Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, and a past fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek and the University of Victoria’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.