"Still today the members of Christ are damp with blood": The Body in Sixteenth-Century Lutheran Passion Piety
This article examines an aspect of early Lutheran passion piety overlooked in present scholarship: namely, how believers were taught to discern Christ’s suffering body in the present and to identify themselves with it. It shows how the fear of persecution shaped the unfolding Lutheran Passion tradit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
2023
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2023, Volume: 54, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 119-141 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Suffering of God
B Christian Sects B Lutheran Church B Piety B Jesus Christ |
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| Summary: | This article examines an aspect of early Lutheran passion piety overlooked in present scholarship: namely, how believers were taught to discern Christ’s suffering body in the present and to identify themselves with it. It shows how the fear of persecution shaped the unfolding Lutheran Passion tradition, while arguing that authors aimed to heighten fear of the other by setting the Roman party outside the bounds of Christianity and to assure the faithful of their invulnerability to genuine harm and death as members of Christ’s body. William R. Reddy’s concept of "emotives" is employed to show how readers were encouraged to engage in self-examination and self-alteration through meditation on the thoughts and feelings of Christ and his friends and enemies, scriptural and present. Lutheran Passion books depict self and society as a battleground between God and Satan and their respective human allies, thus setting the reader in God’s "emotional regime." |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/727955 |