Doctrinal Controversy and Lay Religiosity in Late Reformation Germany
Biographical note
Robert J. Christman, Ph.D. (2004) in early modern history, University of Arizona, is an Assistant Professor of History at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He has published a variety of articles on the impact of the Reformation in early modern Germany.
Readership
All those interested in the Reformation and its impact, German history, early modern intellectual and social history, and church history, as well as theologians and anyone interested in the history of Lutheranism.
Table of contents
Introduction Doctrinal Controversy as a Window onto Lay Religiosity
Chapter 1 A Portrait of Mansfeld in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 2 Competing Views of Original Sin and Associated Arguments and Meanings
Chapter 3 The Pastors and their Parishioners
Chapter 4 The Counts and the Controversy
Chapter 5 The “Heretics” of Mansfeld
Chapter 6 Extra-doctrinal Forces Affecting the Laity
Chapter 7 Lay Understandings of Original Sin and Lutheran Theology
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
Hans Ötzen, Ein schon christliches und warhafftiges gebett von gesetze und evangelinis gestellt durch Hans Oetz ein leye imm Thall Mansfelt gegewen im ihar unsers Herren Jhesu Christi anno 1575, Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Abteilung Magdeburg, Standort Wernigerode.
Matthäus Merian, Mansfeldt c. 1650. Copperplate.
Tables
Table 1. The Occupations of the Mansfelder Laity
Table 2. The Mansfelder Laity
Table 3. Luther Citations Found in the Lay Confessions
Chapter 1 A Portrait of Mansfeld in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 2 Competing Views of Original Sin and Associated Arguments and Meanings
Chapter 3 The Pastors and their Parishioners
Chapter 4 The Counts and the Controversy
Chapter 5 The “Heretics” of Mansfeld
Chapter 6 Extra-doctrinal Forces Affecting the Laity
Chapter 7 Lay Understandings of Original Sin and Lutheran Theology
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
Hans Ötzen, Ein schon christliches und warhafftiges gebett von gesetze und evangelinis gestellt durch Hans Oetz ein leye imm Thall Mansfelt gegewen im ihar unsers Herren Jhesu Christi anno 1575, Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Abteilung Magdeburg, Standort Wernigerode.
Matthäus Merian, Mansfeldt c. 1650. Copperplate.
Tables
Table 1. The Occupations of the Mansfelder Laity
Table 2. The Mansfelder Laity
Table 3. Luther Citations Found in the Lay Confessions
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