Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe, (c. 1550-1700)

Titel: Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe, (c. 1550-1700) / by Jürgen Beyer
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Veröffentlicht: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Umfang: XIII, 474 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Brill's series in church history and religious culture ; volume 74
Hochschulschrift: Dissertation, Cambridge University, 2001
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Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Beyer, Jürgen. Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe. - Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
ISBN: 9789004156289 ; 9789004318168

Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe ( c. 1550-1700) is the first transnational study of the phenomenon of angelic apparitions in all Lutheran cultures of early modern Europe. J rgen Beyer provides evidence for more than 350 cases and analyses the material in various ways: tracing the medieval origins, studying the spread of news about prophets, looking at the performances legitimising their calling, noting their comments on local politics, following the theological debates about prophets, and interpreting the early modern notions of holiness within which prophets operated. A full chronology and bibliography of all cases concludes the volume. Beyer demonstrates that lay prophets were an accepted part of Lutheran culture and places them in their social, political and confessional contexts.