The study concludes that the assurance of salvation that these works offered represented a significant change from traditional teaching on death.
Author: Austra Reinis
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 0754654397
Category: Religion
Page: 316
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This study focuses on the earliest of Protestant handbooks that addressed the subject of death and dying. Beginning with Luther's Sermon on Preparing to Die in 1519 and ending with Jakob Otter's Christlich leben vnd sterben in 1528, it explores how Luther and his colleagues adopted traditional themes and motifs, transforming them to accord with their conviction that Christians could be certain of their salvation. It further shows how Luther's colleagues drew on his writings, not only his teaching on dying, but also other writings including his sermons on the sacraments. The study concludes that the assurance of salvation that these works offered represented a significant change from traditional teaching on death.
work of the early sixteenth century.17 Reforming death culture and the art of dying In Reformation Germany, England and France the new theology based on the doctrine of justification by faith brought about profound changes in death ...
Author: Austra Reinis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351905718
Category: History
Page: 304
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The Reformation led those who embraced Martin Luther's teachings to revise virtually every aspect of their faith and to reorder their daily lives in view of their new beliefs. Nowhere was this more true than with death. By the beginning of the sixteenth century the Medieval Church had established a sophisticated mechanism for dealing with death and its consequences. The Protestant reformers rejected this new mechanism. To fill the resulting gap and to offer comfort to the dying, they produced new liturgies, new church orders, and new handbooks on dying. This study focuses on the earliest of the Protestant handbooks, beginning with Luther's Sermon on Preparing to Die in 1519 and ending with Jakob Otter's Christlich leben vnd sterben in 1528. It explores how Luther and his colleagues adopted traditional themes and motifs even as they transformed them to accord with their conviction that Christians could be certain of their salvation. It further shows how Luther's colleagues drew not only on his teaching on dying, but also on other writings including his sermons on the sacraments. The study concludes that the assurance of salvation offered in the Protestant handbooks represented a significant departure from traditional teaching on death. By examining the ways in which the themes and teachings of the reformers differed from the late medieval ars moriendi, the book highlights both breaks with tradition and continuities that marked the early Reformation.
Luther's Reform of Late Medieval Piety, 1518–1520 Anna Marie Johnson. 98. WA Br 1:407.10–11. 99. ... Wicks, “Applied Theology at the Deathbed,” 347–53; Reinis, Reforming the Art of Dying, 17–30. 103. For more on emotions at the deathbed ...
Author: Anna Marie Johnson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9781612482132
Category: Religion
Page: 327
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Between Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 and his excommunication from the church in 1520, he issued twenty-five sermons and treatises on Christian piety, most of them in German. These pastoral writings extended his criticisms of the church beyond indulgences to the practices of confession, prayer, clerical celibacy, the sacraments, suffering, and death. These were the issues that mattered most to Luther because they affected the faith of believers and the health of society. Luther’s conflict with Rome forced him to address the issue of papal authority, but on his own time, he focused on encouraging lay Christians to embrace a simpler, self-sacrificing faith. In these pastoral writings, he criticized theologians and church officials for leading people astray with a reliance on religious works, and he began to lay the foundation for a reformed Christian piety.
They revile pa modigan preostas 78 M. Barasch , Gestures of Despair in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art ( New York , 1976 ) , p . 12 . 79 A. S. Cohen , The Uta Codex : Art , Philosophy and Reform in Eleventh - Century Germany ...
Author: Victoria Thompson
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843830701
Category: Social Science
Page: 256
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Pre-Conquest attitudes towards the dying and the dead have major implications for every aspect of culture, society and religion of the Anglo-Saxon period; but death-bed and funerary practices have been comparatively and unjustly neglected by historical scholarship. In her wide-ranging analysis, Dr Thompson examines such practices in the context of confessional and penitential literature, wills, poetry, chronicles and homilies, to show that complex and ambiguous ideas about death were current at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. Her study also takes in grave monuments, showing in particular how the Anglo-Scandinavian sculpture of the ninth to the eleventh centuries may indicate not only the status, but also the religious and cultural alignment of those who commissioned and made them. VICTORIA THOMPSON undertook her postgraduate work in English and Medieval Studies at the University of York and currently lectures in medieval history for New York University's London Program.
AUSTRA REINIS: Reforming the art of dying: the ars moriendi in the German Reformation (1519-1528). ... VI, 290 S. (St. Andrews studies in Reformation history) Diese Veröffentlichung enthält die überarbeitete Dissertation, die 2003 am ...
Author: Helmar Junghans
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 9783525874417
Category: Religion
Page: 355
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German description: Das Lutherjahrbuch wird von der internationalen Luther-Gesellschaft herausgegeben. Es veroffentlicht neue Erkenntnisse zur Wittenberger Reformation sowie deren Rezeption bis in die Gegenwart und informiert uber die internationale Lutherforschung.
For the Fears and Trials That Oppress Us in the Struggle with Death Johann Gerhard ... see Austra Reinis, Reforming the Art of Dying: The Ars Moriendi in the German Reformation (1519–1528) (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007). 10.
Author: Johann Gerhard
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781498274487
Category: Religion
Page: 106
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Johann Gerhard (1582-1637) was one of the leading dogmatic theologians of his time and was the authoritative voice of seventeenth-century Lutheran Orthodoxy. Yet, he also published numerous devotional works and meditations that were meant to be used in the daily lives of ordinary believers. The Handbook of Consolations sought to provide comfort and encouragement not only to those approaching death, but also to those who provided care for the sick and dying. Gerhard himself was no stranger to sickness and death, having lost his infant son and young wife, and faced numerous life-threatening illnesses throughout his life. In this pastoral work, which is the first complete English translation based on Gerhard's original Latin to be published since the seventeenth century, Gerhard brings together his extensive understanding of Scripture, theology, and church history in a practical and easy-to-understand manual that is as relevant and meaningful in the twenty-first century as it was in Gerhard's day.
... Reforming the Art of Dying; Volker Leppin, “Preparing for Death: From the Late mediaeval ars moriendi to the Lutheran Funeral Sermon,” Claudia Resch, “Reforming Late Medieval ars moriendi: Changes and Compromises in Early ...
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004352377
Category: History
Page: 221
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Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe offers an analysis of the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe.
The ritual of preparing for death was one of the focal points of the late-medieval culture of death.7 Many books from that time contain vivid descriptions of the hour of dying and the ... 7 See Austra Reinis, Reforming the Art of Dying.
Author: Paul van Geest
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004224421
Category: Religion
Page: 936
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Former colleagues and students honour Prof. Dr. A. van de Beek with contributions in this Festschrift on themes that have become central in his theology: christology, theology of Israel, eschatology, theology of the church, creation theology, and freedom of religion.
... (“not only amonge seculers but also in dyverse religious”) who know the art of dying, 98 we encounter a religious milieu as dissatisfied with the state of monasticism as of the laity and concerned to reform both groups in tandem, ...
Author: Amy Appleford
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812246698
Category: History
Page: 336
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Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the Black Death—and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of the Middle English "art of dying" (ars moriendi). An educated awareness of death and mortality was a vital aspect of medieval civic culture, she contends, critical not only to the shaping of single lives and the management of families and households but also to the practices of cultural memory, the building of institutions, and the good government of the city itself. In fifteenth-century London in particular, where an increasingly laicized reformist religiosity coexisted with an ambitious program of urban renewal, cultivating a sophisticated attitude toward death was understood as essential to good living in the widest sense. The virtuous ordering of self, household, and city rested on a proper attitude toward mortality on the part both of the ruled and of their secular and religious rulers. The intricacies of keeping death constantly in mind informed not only the religious prose of the period, but also literary and visual arts. In London's version of the famous image-text known as the Dance of Death, Thomas Hoccleve's poetic collection The Series, and the early sixteenth-century prose treatises of Tudor writers Richard Whitford, Thomas Lupset, and Thomas More, death is understood as an explicitly generative force, one capable (if properly managed) of providing vital personal, social, and literary opportunities.
In Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 93 (2002) 7–25. Leroux, Neil R. Martin Luther As Comforter: Writings on Death. Leiden: Brill, 2007. ... Reforming the Art of Dying: The Ars Moriendi in the German Reformation (1519–1528).
Author: George Kalantzis
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781532630965
Category: Religion
Page: 284
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We human beings are mortal. Our lives in this world inevitably terminate in death. This reality, however, need not cause us to despair, since Jesus Christ has gone before us into the far country of death, giving us hope that this defining feature of our earthly lives is not the end, but instead is an entrance into Christ’s presence and a path to the fullness of the Spirit’s new creation in which God will be all in all. Christian Dying: Witnesses from the Tradition is a collection of essays containing reflections from Christian authors—whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant—on the meaning and appropriation of Christian hope in the face of death in conversation with a number of great voices from the Christian tradition. CONTRIBUTORS: Michel René Barnes, John C. Cavadini, Marc Cortez, Brian E. Daley, S.J., Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Matthew Levering, David Luy, Mark McIntosh, Gilbert Meilaender, Cyril O’Regan, Marcus Plested, Brent Waters.