Reforming Mary - Changing Images of Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of Sixteenth

Zusatztext This is a very well written and interesting volume ... well worth reading ... very user-friendly ... The volume is well structured, and can be recommended not only to historians and undergraduate students of the Reformation, but to interested members of the public. Informationen zum Autor Beth Kreitzer teaches in the Department of History at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Klappentext Catholics and Protestants have, since the earliest days of the Reformation, held markedly different views about the Virgin Mary. In Reforming Mary Beth Kreitzer examines the development of Lutheran views on this subject as expressed in 16th-century Lutheran published sermons, starting with the earliest of Luther's own Reformation sermons. Zusammenfassung Catholics and Protestants have held markedly different views about the Virgin Mary. This work examines the development of Lutheran views on this subject as expressed in 16th century Lutheran published sermons. It shows that from the beginning Lutherans rejected much of the theology and piety that surrounded Mary in Catholicism.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Beth Kreitzer, Beth (Assistant Professor of History Kreitzer
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 21.07.2004
• EAN: 9780195166545
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516654-5
• Pages: 252
• Thèmes: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology; Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Christianisme