The Reformation forced Christians to reconsider virtually every aspect of their faith, and those who embraced Luther's teachings had to find new ways of dealing with the many aspects of their lives. Nowhere is this more true than with death. By the beginning of the sixteenth century the Catholic Church had an established and sophisticated mechanism for dealing with death and its consequences, all of which were rejected by the Protestant reformers. In order to fill this gap and offer comfort to the dying, they produced new church orders and published handbooks on dying. This study focuses on the earliest of these 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 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. By examining the ways in which the themes and teachings of the reformers differed from the late medieval ars moriendi, the book underlines many of the breaks as well as continuities that underpinned the early Reformation.
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Austra Reinis is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Missouri State University, USA.
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'Many books have been written ... on how we are to prepare for death: nothing but error, and people have only become more downcast.'1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Martin Luther, Ain Lettaney, Jakob Otter, Johannes Oecolampadius, Modern Student, Thomas Venatorius, Ain Nützliche Sermon, Christ Jesus, Holy Mass, Holy Spirit, Kaspar Güttel, Euangelisch Jere, Lord's Prayer, Fin Trost Büchlin, Middle Ages, Wenzel Linck, Caspar Güttel, Johannes Bugenhagen, Georg Spalatin, Steffan Castenbaur, Vita Religiosa, Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Die Hymelstrasz, Yorkshire Writers, Georgius Mohr New!
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vnd gstalt, late medieval ars moriendi, end sterben, ars ntoriendi, deathbed sacraments, vnd sterben, deathbed ministry, ars rnoriendi, deathbed communion, deathbed consolation, deathbed temptations, seligen tod, victory over the evil powers, penitential emphasis, fictio personae, plenary confession, third person discourse, sterbenden menschen, first person discourse, tua res agitur, zum sterben, liturgical manual, consolation literature, evil images, dying person Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Martin Luther, Ain Lettaney, Jakob Otter, Johannes Oecolampadius, Modern Student, Thomas Venatorius, Ain Nützliche Sermon, Christ Jesus, Holy Mass, Holy Spirit, Kaspar Güttel, Euangelisch Jere, Lord's Prayer, Fin Trost Büchlin, Middle Ages, Wenzel Linck, Caspar Güttel, Johannes Bugenhagen, Georg Spalatin, Steffan Castenbaur, Vita Religiosa, Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Die Hymelstrasz, Yorkshire Writers, Georgius Mohr New!
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