Wenzel Lincks Hochzeit: Über Sexualität, Keuschheit und Ehe in der frühen Reformation
The essay describes the April 14/15, 1523 wedding of the evangelical preacher of Altenburg Wenceslaus Linck — a wedding which Luther and several other reformers spared no means to celebrate — as a key scene of the early Reformation. This first public wedding of a monk who had been absolved of his vo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Mohr Siebeck
2000
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Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
Year: 2000, Volume: 97, Issue: 3, Pages: 317-342 |
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| Summary: | The essay describes the April 14/15, 1523 wedding of the evangelical preacher of Altenburg Wenceslaus Linck — a wedding which Luther and several other reformers spared no means to celebrate — as a key scene of the early Reformation. This first public wedding of a monk who had been absolved of his vows expressed Luther's new understanding of sexuality, chastity and marriage in an especially demonstrative way. Luther affirmed his rejection of the religious ideal of sexual continence — one of his most significant and lasting recognitions in connection with the Reformation ('appetitus ad mulierem est creatio Dei', 1532) — later again with particular clarity in his communication with Linck, as in an hitherto hardly noticed letter of July 22, 1525, barely four weeks after his own wedding. |
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| ISSN: | 1868-7377 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
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