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The Peace of Augsburg and the Meckhart confession : moderate religion in an age of militancy / Adam Glen Hough.

Van Pelt Library BR355.A8 H68 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hough, Adam (Adam Glen), author.
Series:
Routledge research in early modern history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Meckhart, Johann, -1559.
Meckhart, Johann.
Peace of Augsburg (1555).
Peace of Augsburg.
Church history--16th century.
Church history.
Reformation.
Physical Description:
x, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Summary:
"Taking the religiously diverse city of Augsburg as its focus, this book explores the underappreciated role of local clergy in mediating and interpreting the Peace of Augsburg in the decades following its 1555 enactment, focusing on the efforts of the preacher Johann Meckhart and his heirs in blunting the cultural impact of confessional religion. It argues that the real drama of confessionalization was not simply that which played out between princes and theologians, or even, for that matter, between religions; rather, it lay in the daily struggle of clerics in the proverbial trenches of their ministry, who were increasingly pressured to choose for themselves and for their congregations between doctrinal purity and civil peace"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
That forgotten place between heaven and hell: resistance and compromise during the Augsburg interim
The sin unconfessed: Meckhart and the act of confession
Dance of the Augsburg preachers: the Melhorn controversy and the culture of confessionalization
The Meckhart confession: negotiating moderation
A rudderless ship in stormy seas: conflict, crisis, and concord at the dawn of the confessional age
Hellhounds in the House of Fugger
The path of resistance: Augsburg's divergent evangelical responses to the counter-reformation
The calendar riot: conceptually expanded, contextually explored
Caught in no-man's land: the vocation controversy.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Hough, Adam (Adam Glen), author. Peace of Augsburg and the Meckhart confession
ISBN:
9780367204495
0367204495
OCLC:
1081338676

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