The Catholic Church's claims to spiritual and temporal authority
rest on Jesus' promise in the gospels to give Peter the keys to the
kingdom of heaven. In the sixteenth century, leaders of the German
Reformation sought a fundamental transformation of this "power of
the keys" as part of their efforts to rid Church and society of
alleged clerical abuses. Central to this transformation was a
thoroughgoing reform of private confession.
Unlike other Protestants, Lutherans chose not to abolish private
confession but to change it to suit their theological convictions
and social needs. In a fascinating examination of this new
religious practice, Ronald Rittgers traces the development of
Lutheran private confession, demonstrating how it consistently
balanced competing concerns for spiritual freedom and moral
discipline. The reformation of private confession was part of a
much larger reformation of the power of the keys that had profound
implications for the use of religious authority in
sixteenth-century Germany.
As the first full-length study of the role of Lutheran private
confession in the German Reformation, this book is a welcome
contribution to early modern European and religious history.
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