Miracles and the Protestant Imagination - The Evangelical Wonder Book in Reformation Germany

Generations of scholars have assumed that the Reformation represented a vital step on the way to the ''disenchantment of the world.'' Philip Soergel's groundbreaking study on wonder books reveals that German evangelical Reformers were themselves active enchanters.

List of contents

• Chapter One: The Appropriation of Wonders in Sixteenth-Century Germany


• Chapter Two: Luther on Miracles


• Chapter Three: Nature and the ''Signs of the End'' in Job Fincel's Wonder Signs


• Chapter Four: Caspar Goltwurm on the Rhetoric of Natural Wonders


• Chapter Five: The Polemics of Depravity in the Wonder Books of Christoph Irenaeus


• Chapter Six: Enduring Models and Changing Tastes at Century's End


• Index

About the author

Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland.

Summary

Generations of scholars have assumed that the Reformation represented a vital step on the way to the ''disenchantment of the world.'' Philip Soergel's groundbreaking study on wonder books reveals that German evangelical Reformers were themselves active enchanters.

Additional text

Miracles and the Protestant Imagination is an outstanding book, a work of profound and wide-ranging erudition. The argument is presented with clarity and economy.

Product details

• Authors: Philip M Soergel, Philip M. Soergel, Philip M. (Associate Professor of History Soergel, Soergel Philip M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2012
• EAN: 9780199844661
• ISBN: 978-0-19-984466-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology; Oxford Studies in Historical T
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); History, Germany, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / Lutheran, History of Religion, History of Science, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599