Christopher B Brown - Böcker

Though undertreated by modern scholars, Martin Luther's lectures on Deuteronomy are critical to understanding his theological development as an exegete and also the course of the Reformation in the wake of Luther's return from the Wartburg in 1522...

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The Republic of Venice was the only Catholic territory in which an Anabaptist community formed in the 16th century. The history of Venetian Anabaptism, hitherto little known in Reformation Studies, is the focus of this book. Using a large quantity...

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In the Bondage and Liberation of the Will, Calvin claimed full agreement with Luther's doctrine of the unfree will and divine necessity. Some scholars argue however that Calvin was trying to create the appearance of unity and was embarrassed by Lu...

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In his work Andreas Bergman delves into the depths of Martin Chemnitz's theological legacy, focusing on the often-neglected topic of the certainty of salvation. Through meticulous analysis and nuanced interpretation, Bergman uncovers the intricate...

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Calls for reformation were widespread across the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but few were as nuanced or philosophically rich as the lifelong work of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464). Cusa centralized the coincidentia oppositorum, the coin...

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In April 1518, a pivotal event in Martin Luther's career took place in Heidelberg. This was the Heidelberg Disputation, where Luther defended his theology for the first time since the famous Ninety-Five Theses. In these theses, Luther not only def...

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Having been discarded into the oblivion of "e;heretics"e;, the figure of Juan de Valdes only began to be recovered at the end of the 19th century. Initially associated with Protestantism, Valdes has been portrayed by a range of writers who...

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The 17th and 18th centuries have been regarded as one of the most exciting periods in the history of Hungary and Transylvania. The wars of liberation to terminate the Ottoman occupation, the integration of the Transylvanian Principality into the H...

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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth familiarized itself with Christian Hebraism in the first half of the 16th century. "e;In Search of 'the Genuine Word of God'"e; sketches out the process in three chapters. The first one deals with the dev...

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Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wann in der Reichsstadt Speyer die Reformation offiziell eingeführt wurde und der Prozess der evangelischen Konfessionsbildung einsetzte und wie bzw. über welche Wege und Formen er sich vollzog. Der Untersuchungszei...

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This volume is a survey of the changing role the confessional element played in that country''s foreign policy. Though its rulers consistently supported the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years'' War, this East Central European principality ha...

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Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of this Council, not only in Europe but ...

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Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of this Council, not only in Europe but ...

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Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of this Council, not only in Europe but ...

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Who was Jacob Latomus? What did he write in the series of lectures to which Luther penned an answer in 1521, an answer which is now so central to many interpretations of the great reformer? And how is the reading of that answer affected when it is...

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This present volume aims to stimulate Bucer-research as it brings together a selection of the best of De Kroon's and Van't Spijker's articles some of which appear for the first time in English translation. In the first section Bucer is described a...

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In den Beschreibungen der Lebensgeschichte von Anton Engelbrecht (1487-1556) wurde lange Zeit zu Unrecht eine überwiegend negative Meinung geÿuÿert. In dieser biografischen Studie über ihn, ursprünglich eine Dissertation, diskutiert Dr. Corne...

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This is the first work to examine Calvin's understanding of the relationship between Jews and Christians at such a fundamental level. After an overview of the status of Jews in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the interest at that time in th...

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Als die Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland 2008 eine Lutherdekade als Vorbereitung auf das groe Reformationsjubilaum des Jahres 2017 ausrief, hatte Hartmut Lehmann sich bereits viele Jahre mit den Lutherjubilaen der vergangenen Jahrhunderte bescha...

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Im Raum zwischen Ostsee und Adria setzte nicht nur die Entwicklung konfessioneller Vielfalt innerhalb der lateinischen Christenheit deutlich früher, rund ein Jahrhundert vor dem Auftreten Luthers, ein, hier blieb das Konfessionelle auch spürbar ...

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In 1611 Edmond Richer, the syndic of the Faculty of Theology of Paris, published a short but incisive defence of the conciliarist doctrine under the title De ecclesiastica et politica potestate. He claimed that this doctrine had been almost uninte...

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In the field of biblical hermeneutics one area which scholarship has neglected is Catholic biblical scholarship during the early modern era. A brief look through a standard textbook on hermeneutics reveals the all-to-common jump from Luther, Calvi...

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Die Feierlichkeiten anno 2017 haben anschaulich gezeigt, in welchem Grad die Reformation immer noch an die Person Martin Luthers geknupft wird. Gefeiert wurde der Reformator als der ultimative deutsche Held, der - der Legende nach - mit dem Satz &...

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During the first half of the sixteenth century the Spanish Inquisition fought "e;Lutheranism"e; in a benign way, but as time passed the power struggle between those that favoured reform and the detractors intensified, until persecution bec...

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The study aims to analyse the impact of Luther's theology on his thoughts about music. It limits itself to an analysis of the topic by focusing on the three most important statements of Luther about music in his unfinished treatise ?e?? t?? ???s??...

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Im 16. Jahrhundert war ? mangels heimischer Hochschuleinrichtungen ? Wittenberg die wichtigste Universitÿt der Protestanten Ungarns. Bis zum Ende des Jahrhunderts weilten hier etwa 1200 Studenten, 430 von ihnen waren direkte Schüler Melanchthons...

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Samuel Rutherford's (1600-1661) scholastic theology has been criticized as overly deterministic and even fatalistic, a charge common to Reformed Orthodox theologians of the era. This project applies the new scholarship on Reformed Orthodoxy to Rut...

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Sandra Bihlmaier constitutes a historical and philosophical analysis of Philipp Melanchthon's concept of method and philosophy. By means of a detailed inquiry into Melanchthon's textbooks of dialectic and rhetoric it uncovers the emergence and dev...

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In the second half of the sixteenth century, humanists and Calvinists created a unique text genre, the so-called politia judaica-literature, that was centered around the model of the ancient Jewish polity and the political laws of Moses. Markus M....

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