Abstract
Challenges the ideal of scripture vs. tradition as a manner of separating Protestants from Catholics in the early modern period, to argue instead that historians should be setting out a continuum of continuity with the medieval inheritance, and considering our typologies of the Reform movements against that. Then, as we teach the Christian Intellectual Tradition, we can see both genealogical and influential links across the eras, and present a better picture of what was going on in the Era of the Reformations, and through that, come to a greater understanding of the human condition.
Highlights
Challenges the ideal of scripture vs. tradition as a manner of separating Protestants from Catholics in the early modern period, to argue instead that historians should be setting out a continuum of continuity with the medieval inheritance, and considering our typologies of the Reform movements against that
That’s why all early modernists worth their salt are going to spend the remainder of this year and talking about how their research throws bright light on Martin Luther, and the Reformation
We will trot out a number of old chestnuts, because as we have found, the old ideas got to be old ideas because people liked them and could remember them
Summary
Martin Luther stood before Charles V and said, “Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants was harsh, inspired by Luther’s personal trip into Thuringia, where he viewed firsthand the depredations of the rebels (Luther 1955–1986; Luther 1883–2002). This treatise encouraged all who would come upon them to “smite, slay, and stab” the rebels.. This treatise encouraged all who would come upon them to “smite, slay, and stab” the rebels.8 In his An Open Letter on the Harsh Book against the Peasants in August of that same year, Luther did not attempt to apologize for his vehemence, only to explain it.. Lutheran belief and cult was a popular movement that had been well established, and one that depended upon a continuity with the liturgical and doctrinal traditions of the medieval church
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