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Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation,
argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in
religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe's
traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and
yet it threw the whole continent into turmoil. There has been
intense speculation over the last century focusing on the political
and social causes that lay at the root of this revolution. Thomas
Kaufmann, one of the world's leading experts on the Reformation,
sees the most important drivers for what happened in religion
itself. The reformers were principally concerned with the question
of salvation. It could all have ended with the pope's condemnation
of Luther and his teaching. But Luther believed the pope was
condemned to eternal damnation, and this was the root cause of the
great split to come. Hatred of the damned drove people to take up
arms, while countless numbers left their homes far behind and
carried the Reformation message to the furthest corners of the
earth in the hope of salvation. In The Saved and the Damned, Thomas
Kaufmann presents a dramatic overview of how Europe was transformed
by the seismic shock of the Reformation—and of how its
aftershocks reverberate right down to the present day.
Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar who set the Protestant
Reformation in motion with his famous Ninety-Five Theses, was a man
of extremes on many fronts. He was both hated and honoured, both
reviled as a heretic and lauded as a kind of second Christ. He was
both a quiet, solitary reader and interpreter of the Bible and the
first media-star of history, using the printing press to reach many
of his contemporaries and become the most-read theologian of the
sixteenth century. Thomas Kaufmann's concise biography highlights
the two conflicting "natures" of Martin Luther, depicting Luther's
earthiness as well as his soaring theological contributions, his
flaws as well as his greatness. Exploring the close correlation
between Luther's Reformation theology and his historical context, A
Short Life of Martin Luther serves as an ideal introduction to the
life and thought of the most important figure in the Protestant
Reformation.
This volume combines a number of approaches to the history of the
conflict between religions and cultures. Contributions from
history, art and legal history, as well as Judaistic studies deal
with new conceptual considerations on the history of perceptions in
the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period; above all
interpretations of non-European religions, of paganism in their own
European tradition, and how ecclesiastic law treated a
oenon-believersa in relation to the heretics. The second volume is
in preparation.
Ulrich Bubenheimer rekonstruiert die dramatischen Vorgänge der
frühen Wittenberger Reformation auf breiter Quellenbasis und unter
Nutzung z.T. bisher unbekannter Quellen. Dabei arbeitet er heraus,
dass die vielfältigen Interaktionsprozesse zwischen den führenden
Wittenberger Theologen, den Institutionen der Stadt, des
Allerheiligenstiftes und der Universität in der Kernphase 1521/22
keineswegs chaotisch vonstattengingen, wie es eine an den Urteilen
Luthers orientierte Historiographie, die von "Aufruhr", "Unruhe"
und "Chaos" sprach, voraussetzte. Bubenheimer kann plausibel
machen, dass es berechtigt ist, die sogenannte "Wittenberger
Bewegung" als "Wittenberger Stadtreformation" zu rekonstruieren.
Dabei zeigt sich, dass die in den Personen Luthers, Karlstadts und
Müntzers repräsentierten Reformationstypen - der landesherrliche,
der gemeindereformatorisch-pazifistische und der
kommunalistisch-militante - in nuce bereits in den Diskussionen und
Aktionen der Jahre 1521/22 angelegt waren.
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