Vincent Evener
Biographic Data
| ID | 1229623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Evener |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Evener |
| SIGNATURE | EVENER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Lutheran Seminary |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1839-4143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Spirituality and Mercy—Or, a Crisis of Spirituality's Making
Forget Me Not’
Many meditations and prayers on the passion were published by Bavarian presses at the end of the sixteenth century into the seventeenth. This article examines Jakob Feucht’s popular Christian Pilgrimage (first printed in 1574), situating it in relation to Feucht’s homiletic and apologetic publications, on one side, and to the broader flood of printed Catholic passion meditations, on the other. This broader flood is represented by the publishing c…
Petro‐theology
This essay serves as a more extended introduction to many of the themes, concerns, and aims of this issue. Along these lines, key terms and discourses like extractivism, energy humanities, and petroculture studies are introduced. The essay elaborates two key claims: energy has been theological (and not just techno‐scientific) and analysis of current energy concerns (including climate change) need to be theorized and addressed in relation to land.…
Still today the members of Christ are damp with blood”
This article examines an aspect of early Lutheran passion piety overlooked in present scholarship: namely, how believers were taught to discern Christ’s suffering body in the present and to identify themselves with it. It shows how the fear of persecution shaped the unfolding Lutheran Passion tradition, while arguing that authors aimed to heighten fear of the other by setting the Roman party outside the bounds of Christianity and to assure the fa…
The Lutheran transformation of passion devotion, 1520–1560, and lessons for today
This article examines how early Lutheran authors transformed three pedagogical strategies prominent in late‐medieval passion books: the use of Mary the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene as models for feeling in relationship to Christ; graphic depiction of Christ's wounded body; and the practice of “composition of place,” that is, imagining oneself in the scene of the crucifixion. It argues that early Lutheran authors transformed these strategies…
Lutheranism and race Introduction to Dialogue in Dialog
Learning to see the vulnerable
Spirit and truth
The Covid‐19 pandemic forces North American churches to reckon with long‐standing crises and questions surrounding online community, access to worship, decline in membership, the struggle of small congregations, and the reality of our global communion. This article describes a response grounded in faith defined as confidence in our liberation from pride and despair through Jesus Christ. There is need for clarity of doctrine and spiritual courage …
Global Christianity and theological education
Our Jews
From the Universal to the Particular
Scholarship in recent decades has steadily chipped away at the image of Martin Luther as a figure of singular historical significance. Some have sought to embed Luther firmly in his late medieval context, and to situate him within a circle of reformers. Others have pluralised the Reformation, describing a diversity of ideas and movements not bound to Luther's teaching – an array of ‘visions of reform’ shaped by social location and gender. Social …
The Future of Reformation Studies
Recent scholarly trends have called into question the view of the Reformation as a singular, epoch-making event; many scholars prefer to speak of sixteenth-century “reformations,” while others regard the Reformation as a chapter within longer-running and more significant historical processes. This essay proposes viewing the Reformation as a complex, epoch-making event that was initiated and sustained by both Protestant and Catholic actors. The Re…
Jewishness as an Explanation for Rejection of the Word
The present essay challenges prior accounts of the “literary echo” to Martin Luther’s 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew , which called for “friendly” theological instruction of Jews. Focusing on a dialogue between a Christian and a Jew written by Caspar Güttel, I demonstrate that Güttel was not concerned with the persuasion of Jews. Rather, writing in 1527, Güttel deployed his knowledge of the ineffectiveness of Luther’s missionary …
Wittenberg's Wandering Spirits
This article examines early protestant efforts to confront the belief that souls in purgatory appeared to or haunted the living. It demonstrates that a series of Articles on the Conjuration of the Wandering Dead (1521 or 1522) long attributed to Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt were actually written by Martin Luther or a close disciple. More importantly, it shows that these Articles participated in an extended effort by Luther to realize the doct…
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Jewishness as an Explanation for Rejection of the Word
The present essay challenges prior accounts of the “literary echo” to Martin Luther’s 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew , which called for “friendly” theological instruction of Jews. Focusing on a dialogue between a Christian and a Jew written by Caspar Güttel, I demonstrate that Güttel was not concerned with the persuasion of Jews. Rather, writing in 1527, Güttel deployed his knowledge of the ineffectiveness of Luther’s missionary …
Wittenberg's Wandering Spirits
This article examines early protestant efforts to confront the belief that souls in purgatory appeared to or haunted the living. It demonstrates that a series of Articles on the Conjuration of the Wandering Dead (1521 or 1522) long attributed to Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt were actually written by Martin Luther or a close disciple. More importantly, it shows that these Articles participated in an extended effort by Luther to realize the doct…
The Future of Reformation Studies
Recent scholarly trends have called into question the view of the Reformation as a singular, epoch-making event; many scholars prefer to speak of sixteenth-century “reformations,” while others regard the Reformation as a chapter within longer-running and more significant historical processes. This essay proposes viewing the Reformation as a complex, epoch-making event that was initiated and sustained by both Protestant and Catholic actors. The Re…
From the Universal to the Particular
Scholarship in recent decades has steadily chipped away at the image of Martin Luther as a figure of singular historical significance. Some have sought to embed Luther firmly in his late medieval context, and to situate him within a circle of reformers. Others have pluralised the Reformation, describing a diversity of ideas and movements not bound to Luther's teaching – an array of ‘visions of reform’ shaped by social location and gender. Social …
Our Jews
Spirit and truth
The Covid‐19 pandemic forces North American churches to reckon with long‐standing crises and questions surrounding online community, access to worship, decline in membership, the struggle of small congregations, and the reality of our global communion. This article describes a response grounded in faith defined as confidence in our liberation from pride and despair through Jesus Christ. There is need for clarity of doctrine and spiritual courage …
Global Christianity and theological education
Lutheranism and race Introduction to Dialogue in Dialog
Learning to see the vulnerable
The Lutheran transformation of passion devotion, 1520–1560, and lessons for today
This article examines how early Lutheran authors transformed three pedagogical strategies prominent in late‐medieval passion books: the use of Mary the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene as models for feeling in relationship to Christ; graphic depiction of Christ's wounded body; and the practice of “composition of place,” that is, imagining oneself in the scene of the crucifixion. It argues that early Lutheran authors transformed these strategies…
Petro‐theology
This essay serves as a more extended introduction to many of the themes, concerns, and aims of this issue. Along these lines, key terms and discourses like extractivism, energy humanities, and petroculture studies are introduced. The essay elaborates two key claims: energy has been theological (and not just techno‐scientific) and analysis of current energy concerns (including climate change) need to be theorized and addressed in relation to land.…
Still today the members of Christ are damp with blood”
This article examines an aspect of early Lutheran passion piety overlooked in present scholarship: namely, how believers were taught to discern Christ’s suffering body in the present and to identify themselves with it. It shows how the fear of persecution shaped the unfolding Lutheran Passion tradition, while arguing that authors aimed to heighten fear of the other by setting the Roman party outside the bounds of Christianity and to assure the fa…
Forget Me Not’
Many meditations and prayers on the passion were published by Bavarian presses at the end of the sixteenth century into the seventeenth. This article examines Jakob Feucht’s popular Christian Pilgrimage (first printed in 1574), situating it in relation to Feucht’s homiletic and apologetic publications, on one side, and to the broader flood of printed Catholic passion meditations, on the other. This broader flood is represented by the publishing c…
Spirituality and Mercy—Or, a Crisis of Spirituality's Making
Philosophy (11 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (9 works) · Theology (9 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works)