TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Anna Marie
TI  - Early Modern Studies. Beyond Indulgences: Luther’s Reform of Late Medieval Piety, 1518–1520 
T2  - Early Modern Studies
SN  - 9780271091334
U1  - 284.1092 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Christian life
KW  - Piety
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Christianity
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Pastoral Writings of 1518 to 1520 --; Chapter One: The Practical Early Luther --; Chapter Two: Scholasticism, Indulgences, and Christian Life: 1516–1517 --; Chapter Three: Reshaping Confession, Reorienting Piety: Lent 1518 --; Chapter Four: Piety in the Shadow of Conflict: Summer 1518 --; Chapter Five: Reforming Prayer and Good Works: Early 1519 --; Chapter Six: Reinterpreting Sacraments and Saints: Fall 1519 to Summer 1520 --; Conclusion: Piety and Luther’s Protest --; Appendix --; Works Cited --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - 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
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