Luthers Antichristverständnis vor dem Hintergrund der mittelalterlichen Konzeptionen
The essay deals with the question whether Luthers concept of the Antichrist was a continuation of medieval antichristology or wether it was completely new. Luther's teaching on the Antichrist was developped Step by Step in his battle against the papacy. In 1520, when Luther finally reached the...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1999
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Kerygma und Dogma
Year: 1999, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-63 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Luther, Martin 1483-1546
/ Antichrist
/ Pope
/ Middle Ages
/ Reception
/ Reformation
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KCB Papacy NBQ Eschatology |
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| Summary: | The essay deals with the question whether Luthers concept of the Antichrist was a continuation of medieval antichristology or wether it was completely new. Luther's teaching on the Antichrist was developped Step by Step in his battle against the papacy. In 1520, when Luther finally reached the position of describing the Antichrist not as an individual but as an institution. This institution was identified by a certain number of criteria, and Luther held the view that the Antichrist was present on earth in the institution of the papacy. In this respect, he actually differed from the medieval legend of a personal Antichrist, which had been worked out by Adso, abbot of Montieren-Der, in the tenth Century. But this was not the only concept of the Antichrist in the Middle Ages. There was also a tradition, founded by Augustine, that defmed the Antichrist not as a single person with a special biography, but as anyone who fulfilled certain criteria of being against Christ. In the work of John Wyclif, this concept of the Antichrist could be used as means to discriminate not only against a single person, but also against the institution of the papacy, claiming it to be the Antichrist. It is this tradition of non-personal antichristology that enabled Luther to pick up the concept of Antichrist for his battle aganist the papacy. So, although there is an aspect of medieval tradition in his concept of the Antichrist, there is also something quite new in his teaching, namely the criteria for identifying the Pope-Antichrist, formed by Luther's theology. Luther set this concept of the Antichrist in an eschatological pattem. Up to his time, it was only the personal Antichrist who was a figure in the scenario of the last days of the world. It was Luther who made the revelation of the institutional Antichrist a sign of the coming end. |
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| Item Description: | Rezeption |
| ISSN: | 0023-0707 |
| Reference: | Frei übersetzt als "Luther’s Understanding of Antichrist in the Context of the Medieval Conception (2002)"
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| Contains: | In: Kerygma und Dogma
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15496/publikation-53925 HDL: 10900/112549 |