The Impact of the Reformation

by Heiko Augustinus Oberman

Overview

From the perspective of the social history of ideas, renowned scholar Heiko Oberman addresses the conditions for reform, the articulation of the Reformers' program, and especially the consequences of the Reformatin, both in the sixteenth cenury and in its modern perception.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802807328
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/19/1996
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface: The Past in Perspective	vii
I.	Points of Departure
	Via Antiqua and Via Moderna: Late Medieval Prolegomena to Early Reformation Thought	3
	Preface to Devotio Moderna: Basic Writings	23
	Captivitas Babylonica: Johann von Staupitz's Critical Ecclesiology	26
	Duplex Misericordia: The Devil and the Church in the Early Theology of Johann von Staupitz	35
II.	The Impact of Luther
	Teufelsdreck: Eschatology and Scatology in the "Old" Luther	51
	The Nationalist Conscription of Martin Luther	69
III.	The Growth of Antisemitism
	Three Sixteenth-Century Attitudes toward Judaism: Reuchlin, Erasmus, and Luther	81
	The Stubborn Jews: Timing the Escalation of Antisemitism in Late Medieval Europe	122
	Reuchlin and the Jews: Obstacles on the Path to Emancipation	141
IV.	Problems and Perspectives
	The Impact of the Reformation: Problems and Perspectives	173
	Die Gelebrten die Verkehrten: Popular Response to Learned Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation	201
	The Virgin Mary in Evangelical Perspective	225
	From Confrontation to Encounter: The Ugly German and the Ugly American	253
	Abbreviations	258
	Index of Names, Places, and Modern Authors	259
	Index of Subjects	262

Editorial Reviews

"This collection of essays is vintage Oberman.... There is no doubt that his provocative notions and theses have been a major catalyst for Reformation studies during the past thirty years.... The Impact of the Reformation...gives the reader, even the initiated reader, a sense of Oberman's scholarship, flair, and method."

Church History

"This collection of Heiko Oberman's essays...allows the reader to experience the full force of the author's iconoclastic role in Reformation studies.... Heiko Oberman's book is not for the faint-hearted. His formidable scholarship is animated by passionate argument, wit, and style, and as with the Reformation to which he has devoted his career, the message is often more unsettling than soothing."

Expository Times

Crafted with the precision, insight, and subtlety which readers have come to expect from Oberman.... Non-specialists should read these articles not only for their content but to witness what is today the highest standard of Reformation scholarship. Specialists who are already familiar with many of them could well benefit from a second look.

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