Ronald K. Rittgers
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199795086
- eISBN:
- 9780199950171
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795086.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter argues for the importance of church ordinances in the reformation of suffering, noting that Protestant pastors were required by law to possess them and also to follow their guidelines ...
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This chapter argues for the importance of church ordinances in the reformation of suffering, noting that Protestant pastors were required by law to possess them and also to follow their guidelines for the care of souls. The chapter observes that in comparison with similar sources in the later Middle Ages, Protestant church ordinances have a great deal to say about suffering, because the authors of the ordinances attached such great importance to changing the way their contemporaries understood and sought to cope with adversity. The chapter compares Lutheran and Reformed treatments of suffering, commenting on the importance of private confession in the former’s church ordinances and its exclusion in the latter’s. It also discusses Catholic critiques of the treatment of suffering in Lutheran church ordinances. The chapter seeks to show that Protestant reformers could try to Christianize their contemporaries through consolation as much as through discipline and control.Less
This chapter argues for the importance of church ordinances in the reformation of suffering, noting that Protestant pastors were required by law to possess them and also to follow their guidelines for the care of souls. The chapter observes that in comparison with similar sources in the later Middle Ages, Protestant church ordinances have a great deal to say about suffering, because the authors of the ordinances attached such great importance to changing the way their contemporaries understood and sought to cope with adversity. The chapter compares Lutheran and Reformed treatments of suffering, commenting on the importance of private confession in the former’s church ordinances and its exclusion in the latter’s. It also discusses Catholic critiques of the treatment of suffering in Lutheran church ordinances. The chapter seeks to show that Protestant reformers could try to Christianize their contemporaries through consolation as much as through discipline and control.
Bridget Heal
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198737575
- eISBN:
- 9780191800993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198737575.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Cultural History
Chapter 2 analyses the role that images played in the theological controversies of the later sixteenth century. It opens with an investigation of Lutheran church furnishings during the mid-sixteenth ...
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Chapter 2 analyses the role that images played in the theological controversies of the later sixteenth century. It opens with an investigation of Lutheran church furnishings during the mid-sixteenth century, which shows that there was no clear consensus at that time with regard to images, either at the level of theology or at the level of devotional practice. The chapter then investigates images’ fate during a time of crisis for the Lutheran Church, in the aftermath of the reformer’s death (1546) and Emperor Charles V’s victory over the Schmalkaldic League (1547). As Luther’s heirs contested his legacy, the treatment of images served as a means of indicating allegiance to either Wittenberg or the Gnesio-Lutheran cause. The chapter then considers the role that images played in confessional delineation as Calvinism became established in parts of the Holy Roman Empire from the 1560s onwards.Less
Chapter 2 analyses the role that images played in the theological controversies of the later sixteenth century. It opens with an investigation of Lutheran church furnishings during the mid-sixteenth century, which shows that there was no clear consensus at that time with regard to images, either at the level of theology or at the level of devotional practice. The chapter then investigates images’ fate during a time of crisis for the Lutheran Church, in the aftermath of the reformer’s death (1546) and Emperor Charles V’s victory over the Schmalkaldic League (1547). As Luther’s heirs contested his legacy, the treatment of images served as a means of indicating allegiance to either Wittenberg or the Gnesio-Lutheran cause. The chapter then considers the role that images played in confessional delineation as Calvinism became established in parts of the Holy Roman Empire from the 1560s onwards.
Amy Nelson Burnett
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190921187
- eISBN:
- 9780190921217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190921187.003.0014
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, Theology
Through the second half of the 1520s, cities and territories began to institutionalize reforms to the Lord’s Supper. Luther’s German Mass was influential in central and northern Germany, while the ...
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Through the second half of the 1520s, cities and territories began to institutionalize reforms to the Lord’s Supper. Luther’s German Mass was influential in central and northern Germany, while the communion liturgies of Zurich and Basel were important as sacramentarian models. Church ordinances also contained sections on the Lord’s Supper, with the most important being the Instruction to the Visitors of Saxony and Bugenhagen’s Braunschweig ordinance. The Bern Disputation of 1528 generated a number of publications by both sacramentarians and Catholics; so, too, did the events leading to Basel’s abolition of the mass. The leaders of both parties could not reach agreement on the Lord’s Supper at the Marburg Colloquy, but the articles adopted there marked the emergence of a new source of collective authority: a confession of faith that defined orthodoxy.Less
Through the second half of the 1520s, cities and territories began to institutionalize reforms to the Lord’s Supper. Luther’s German Mass was influential in central and northern Germany, while the communion liturgies of Zurich and Basel were important as sacramentarian models. Church ordinances also contained sections on the Lord’s Supper, with the most important being the Instruction to the Visitors of Saxony and Bugenhagen’s Braunschweig ordinance. The Bern Disputation of 1528 generated a number of publications by both sacramentarians and Catholics; so, too, did the events leading to Basel’s abolition of the mass. The leaders of both parties could not reach agreement on the Lord’s Supper at the Marburg Colloquy, but the articles adopted there marked the emergence of a new source of collective authority: a confession of faith that defined orthodoxy.
