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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2018

Spalte:

1291–1293

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Reformationszeit

Autor/Hrsg.:

Heal, Bridget, and Anorthe Kremers [Eds.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Radicalism and Dissent in the World of Protestant Reform.

Verlag:

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017. 275 S. m. 22 Abb. Geb. EUR 40,00. ISBN 978-3-525-55258-2.

Rezensent:

Robert Kolb

More than a half century ago George Hunston Williams replaced terms such as »the left wing of the Reformation« with the designa-tion »radical« to define and group together three sets of 16th-century protestors who formulated critiques of both Rome and its leading critics of the time. Williams linked Anabaptists, Spiritualists, and Anti-Trinitarians under this term. Those outside these movements had grouped these three, despite their radically differing presuppositions on many points of doctrine and practice, together at least since the authors of the Formula of Concord did so in 1577 (article XII). Increasingly, scholars have recognized that basic homogeneity linking these groups is lacking, groups that already in the 16 th cent-ury were anything but homogenous ...


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