"Luther gereformeert": Vier eeuwen Nederlandse gereformeerden over Luther
This article describes how Dutch Reformed authors throughout the ages perceived Martin Luther. Their perception was ambiguous: they tended to glorify Luther as the founding father of the Reformation, but criticized Lutherans because of their, as Reformed felt it, half-hearted Reformation. The Reform...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Dutch |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Amsterdam University Press
[2018]
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Trajecta
Year: 2018, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 301-323 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAA Church history KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBD Benelux countries KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Calvinism
B Lutherans B Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 B Reformation B Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 |
| Summary: | This article describes how Dutch Reformed authors throughout the ages perceived Martin Luther. Their perception was ambiguous: they tended to glorify Luther as the founding father of the Reformation, but criticized Lutherans because of their, as Reformed felt it, half-hearted Reformation. The Reformed identified themselves as the true inheritors of Luther's Reformation, who accomplished the work Luther had started. In the nineteenth century the Reformed perception of Luther underwent a significant change: Reformed ceased to describe the Dutch Reformation as a large, diverse movement and started to focus on John Calvin. Hence they started to portray the Dutch Reformation as a univocal Calvinistic Reformation. |
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| ISSN: | 2665-9484 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Trajecta
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