The Reformation of Faith in the Context of Late Medieval Theology and Piety: Essays by Berndt Hamm

Berndt Hamm has been Professor für Neuere Kirchengeschichte at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1984. His numerous monographs include Frömmigkeitstheologie am Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts. Studien zu Johannes von Paltz und seinem Umkreis (1982); Zwinglis Reformation der Freiheit (1988), and Bürgertum und Glaube. Konturen der städtischen Reformation (1996).

This book is the first major collection of articles by Berndt Hamm in English translation. The articles employ previously neglected sermons, devotional and pastoral treatises to reassess the question of continuity and change between late-medieval and Reformation theology and piety.

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Editor's Foreword 1. Normative Centering in the 15th and 16th Centuries: Observations on Religiosity, Theology, and Iconology 2. Between Severity and Mercy. Three Models of Pre-Reformation Urban Reform Preaching: Savonarola - Staupitz - Geiler 3. Volition and Inadequacy as a Topic in Late Medieval Pastoral Care of Penitents 4. From the Medieval "Love of God" to the "Faith" of Luther - A Contribution to the History of Penitence 5. Why did "Faith" become for Luther the Central Concept of the Christian Life? 6. What was the Reformation Doctrine of Justification? 7. Reformation "from below" and Reformation "from above". On the Problem of the Historical Classifications of the Reformation 8. How Innovative was the Reformation? 9. The Place of the Reformation in the Second Christian Millennium Index of Persons and Places Index of Subjects