The Birth of an Empire of Two Churches

Church Property, Theologians, and the League of Schmalkalden

Bibliographic Data

ID23213409
AuthorsChristopher Ocker (0000-0002-1736-835X, Leibniz Institute of European History, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume41
Pages48-67
Publication date2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustrian History Yearbook (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0067-2378 • E-ISSN: 1558-5255
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0067237809990087
OpenAlexW2148894063
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited32

Did the creation of Protestant churches in Germany during Luther's generation follow someone's intentions? Heiko Oberman, appealing to a medieval Luther, portrays the reformer as herald of a dawning apocalypse, a monk at war with the devil, who expected God to judge the world and rescue Christians with no help from human institutions, abilities, and processes. This Luther could not have intended the creation of a new church. Dorothea Wendebourg and Hans-Jürgen Goertz stress the diversity of early evangelical movements. Goertz argues that anticlericalism helped the early Reformation's gamut of spiritual, political, economic, and social trends to coalesce into moderate and radical groups, whereas Wendebourg suggests that the movements were only united in the judgment of the Counter Reformation.

Art · Civil rights · Diversity (politics) · Empire · League · Martin luther · Martin luther king · Of Reformation · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies

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