Miracles and the Protestant imagination : the Evangelical wonder book in Reformation Germany /
The wonder book was a new genre that appeared in the troubled years following Luther's death in 1546 and the outbreak of religious wars at mid century. Originally conceived as a kind of apocalyptic text intended to interpret the ''signs of the times'' during this uncertain p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in historical theology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The wonder book was a new genre that appeared in the troubled years following Luther's death in 1546 and the outbreak of religious wars at mid century. Originally conceived as a kind of apocalyptic text intended to interpret the ''signs of the times'' during this uncertain period, these books were filled with accounts of celestial visions, comets, natural disasters, monstrous births, and other seeming signs and portents, events in which the hand of God was revealed. As the genre developed, Philip Soergel shows, its authors, mostly Lutheran divines, came increasingly to delve into the theology. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199844678 0199844674 1280593792 9781280593796 9780199932856 0199932859 |