MARTIN LUTHER : rebel in an age of upheaval PDF
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R R MA TIN LUTHE MARTIN LUTHER R EBEL IN AN AGE OF UPHEAVAL HEINZ SCHILLING translated by R ONA JOHNSTON 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OXDP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries Germanedition: ©VerlagC.H.BeckoHG,München,.Thistranslation ©OxfordUniversityPress Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin Impression: Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber: ISBN –––– PrintedinGreatBritainby ClaysLtd,StIvesplc Palma sub pondere crescit For Ursula et cetera familia Acknowledgements Looking back now this book is complete, I recognize above all my debt of gratitude to Detlef Felken, who years ago first tempted me to tackle a biography of Luther and then became an enthusiastic and a knowledgeable reader who unfailingly supported the project and provided his counsel. Without him, this book would not exist. In another way this statement is equally valid for my colleagues on the board of the Verein für Reforma- tionsgeschichte (Society for Reformation History), of which I have been a member throughout a lifetime of research—first deputizing for Bernd Moeller, whose influence as president was so formative, then from to as president, and now again as an ordinary member. Without the interdisciplinary discussions that they encouraged, I would not have found mywayfrommyinitialhomeinstructuralhistoryatFreiburgandBielefeld to a biography of Luther, and to its theological component in particular. IamalsogratefulforfruitfulcontactwithReformationhistoriansinEurope beyond Germany and in North America, facilitated in particular by more than a decade and a half as European editor of the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte / Archive for Reformation History. Following on from many generations of research on Luther and on the Reformation,today’sbiographer of Luthercan drawon outstanding source editions and hundreds of articles and monographs—an obvious legacy, perhaps,butstilldeservingofgratefulacknowledgement.Twocontributions standout,thatoftheeditorsoftheWeimarEdition(WeimarerWerkausgabe) of Luther’s works and that of Martin Brecht, author of the three-volume biography of Luther. Responsibility for this interpretation of Luther in the context of his own age and as he figures for us today is, however, entirely mine.Ihopethatthisbookwillinspireinterconfessionalandinterdisciplinary debateaboutLuther’shistoricalsignificanceandtheworldwideimpactofthe Reformation, much as Brecht’s work stimulated discussion of the loss of the Reformation, crushed historiographically between research on the late Middle Ages, on one hand, and on confessionalization, on the other. This viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS debate could provide a scholarly platform for the political commemoration of the th anniversary of the Reformation, in . IthankKarinHeilmannforproducingatypescriptofthefirstchapterand forsubsequenttechnicalassistanceinmovingfrommanuscripttocomputer. Ruth Slenczka made her expertise available when it came to selecting the images.IwishalsotothankAnjaWagnerandClaudiaHäßler,whoasthey tracked down literature and checked the citations, developed their own enthusiasm for Luther. Mywifereadthisbookcloselyandcriticallyandindebatinghowthetext should be formulated embodied most effectively the role of a ‘Mr Käthe’. Berlin,earlysummer Contents List of Figuresand Maps xi Abbreviations xv Translator’s Note xvii Prologue PART ONE: CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND FIRST YEARS AS A MONK, – I. —New Departures for Christendom II. Childhood and Youth III. Crisis and Flight to the Monastery PART TWO: WITTENBERG AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE REFORMATION, – I. Wittenberg—‘On the Edge of Civilization’ II. Eleutherios—The Birth of a Free Man III. The Reformer—Standing His Ground before Church, Emperor, and Empire IV. Beginning to Labour for the Cause V. Contesting Interpretation within the Evangelical Camp VI. Arrived in the World—Marriage, Family, and a Large Household PART THREE: PROPHETIC CONFIDENCE, BUT TEMPORAL FAILURE, – I. Evangelical Renewal of Church and Society II. ‘But We Christians Are Part of a Different Struggle’—Facing the Demands of the World
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