Masters of the Reformation: The Emergence of a New Intellectual Climate in Europe

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Cambridge University Press, 4 iun. 1981 - 369 pagini
Heiko A. Oberman's Masters of the Reformation - first published in German under the title Werden and Wertung der Reformation - is a general survey of academic thought and its impact on a wider world from the later Middle Ages to the emergence of Luther and the city Reformation. The book uses the early history of the University of Tubingen to illuminate late fifteenth-century theological developments and the first stirrings of the Reformation. Oberman shows from the beginning that the University of Tubingen was no ivory tower. Rather, it was a vantage point from which important trends were discerned and vital impulses disseminated. In a second section, he then describes the creation of a distinctive `Tübingen school', actively involved in the territorial policies of Württemberg and wrestling with the major ethical problems of the day. In the third section of the book, convincing links are established between the nominalist tradition and the intellectual context of the south German Reformation. Oberman emphasises the practical application of theology to social and ethical issues, and shows how this prepared the way for the Reformation as a spiritual and material liberation.

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the university as observatory
3
fact and fancy
15
a parting of the ways
23
movement and mystery
45
Patterns of thought on the eve of upheaval
57
The Augustine renaissance in the later Middle Ages
64
the ferment of ideas
113
the clash of interests
128
the old and new masters
187
bishop and city
210
The onset of the CounterReformation
240
a German tragedy?
260
Student population at German universities 13851540
296
Bibliography
307
Index of names and places
349
Index of modern authors
357

devil and devotion
158

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