Miracles and the Protestant imagination the Evangelical wonder book in Reformation Germany Soergel, Philip M. creator text Electronic books. Church history Criticism, interpretation, etc. History nyu New York Oxford University Press ©2012 2012 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations 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. The appropriation of wonders in sixteenth-century Germany -- Luther on miracles -- Nature and the "signs of the end" in Job Fincel's wonder signs -- Caspar Goltwurm on the rhetoric of natural wonders -- The polemics of depravity in the wonder books of Christoph Irenaeus -- Enduring models and changing tastes at century's end. Philip M. Soergel. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-gx--- Lutheran Church Germany Doctrines History 16th century Curiosities and wonders History 16th century Miracles History of doctrines 16th century Christian literature, German History and criticism Germany Church history 16th century Église luthérienne Allemagne Doctrines Histoire 16e siècle Curiosités et merveilles Histoire 16e siècle Miracles Histoire des doctrines 16e siècle Littérature chrétienne allemande Histoire et critique Allemagne Histoire religieuse 16e siècle RELIGION Christianity Lutheran Christian literature, German Curiosities and wonders Lutheran Church Doctrines Miracles History of doctrines Germany Wunderzeichenbuch Evangelische Theologie Mirakel Wundergeschichte Deutschland Mirakel Wundergeschichte Reformation Deutschland 1500-1599 fast BX8020 .S58 2012eb 230/.4109031 230 390 Miracles and the Protestant imagination Soergel, Philip M. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011026824 (OCoLC)741415804 (DLC) 2011026824 Oxford studies in historical theology 9780199844678 0199844674 1280593792 9781280593796 9780199932856 0199932859 9780199844661 0199844666 2011026824 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/4708 N$T 120224 20260318190134.2 in00005707867 eng