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Astrology and Reformation (Hardcover)
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During the sixteenth century, no part of the Christian West saw the
development of a more powerful and pervasive astrological culture
than the very home of the Reformation movement-the Protestant towns
of the Holy Roman Empire. While most modern approaches to the
religious and social reforms of that age give scant attention to
cosmological preoccupations, this study argues that astrological
concepts and imagery played a key role in preparing the ground for
the evangelical movement sparked by Martin Luther in the 1520s, as
well as in shaping the distinctive characteristics of German
evangelical culture over the following century. Spreading above all
through cheap printed almanacs and prognostications, popular
astrology functioned in paradoxical ways. It contributed to an
enlarged and abstracted sense of the divine that led away from
clericalism, sacramentalism, and the cult of the saints; at the
same time, it sought to ground people more squarely in practical
matters of daily life. The art gained unprecedented sanction from
Luther's closest associate, Philipp Melanchthon, whose teachings
influenced generations of preachers, physicians, schoolmasters, and
literate layfolk. But the apocalyptic astrology that came to
prevail among evangelicals involved a perpetuation, even a
strengthening, of ties between faith and cosmology, which played
out in beliefs about nature and natural signs that would later
appear as rank superstitions. Not until the early seventeenth
century did Luther's heirs experience a "crisis of piety" that
forced preachers and stargazers to part ways. Astrology and
Reformation illuminates an early modern outlook that was both
practical and prophetic; a world that was neither traditionally
enchanted nor rationally disenchanted, but quite different from the
medieval world of perception it had displaced.
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