A Dark Side of Seventeenth-Century English Protestantism: The Sin against the Holy Spirit
Every student of Christianity learns how the Protestant Reformation wrested the bible from the clutches of priests and monks. Luther's insistence on scripture's preeminent authority, the spate of vernacular translations, and the invention of movable type all combined to draw literate laype...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1984
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1984, Volume: 77, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 301-330 |
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| Summary: | Every student of Christianity learns how the Protestant Reformation wrested the bible from the clutches of priests and monks. Luther's insistence on scripture's preeminent authority, the spate of vernacular translations, and the invention of movable type all combined to draw literate laypeople to the biblical texts. Once the clerical monoply was broken, Christianity entered a new phase of its history. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000027267 |