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Evener, Vincent Matthew.

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"Enemies of the cross": Suffering, salvation, and truth in sixteenth-century religious controversy.

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Title/Author:	"Enemies of the cross": Suffering, salvation, and truth in sixteenth-century religious controversy./
Author:	Evener, Vincent Matthew.
Description:	618 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-11A(E).
Subject:	Religion. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3627827
ISBN:	9781321033281

"Enemies of the cross": Suffering, salvation, and truth in sixteenth-century religious controversy.
Evener, Vincent Matthew.

"Enemies of the cross": Suffering, salvation, and truth in sixteenth-century religious controversy. - 618 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation demonstrates that efforts to define and describe the nature, experience, and expression of true faith in the early Reformation involved a debate over true and false forms of Christian suffering. Reformers justified their contentious doctrines of faith by claiming that they alone called Christians to "true suffering"---to bitter, spiritual self-denial before God and to outward suffering as God's instruments in a hostile, un-Christian world. They labeled their opponents, in turn, as "enemies of the cross," whose refusal to suffer prevented them from receiving and living by true faith. "Enemies of the cross," the early reformers charged, were not only those who suffered on behalf of falsehood, but also those whose supposed suffering was a false appearance---a veil for sinful self-assertion before God.

ISBN: 9781321033281Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.

"Enemies of the cross": Suffering, salvation, and truth in sixteenth-century religious controversy.
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520 $a The careers and writings of three early evangelical reformers are analyzed: Martin Luther, Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt, and Thomas Muntzer. I argue, first, that the three reformers were commonly indebted to teachings about annihilation, union, and instrumental agency learned from the late-medieval "mysticism of the ground." At the same time, each reformer creatively developed these concepts around the nexus of faith. Thus, Karlstadt and Muntzer cannot be regarded as less creative or more "medieval" in their thought and reform ideals than Luther; neither can the development of their unique outlooks be understood in isolation from their relationship to Luther and his soteriology.
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520 $a Throughout, I demonstrate that reformers appealed to suffering in order to answer a perceived truth crisis. On a doctrinal level, they argued that a doctrine was false if it was pleasing to fallen human reason or will---that is, if it did not call Christians to suffering before God and human beings. They also offered spiritual and outward suffering as consoling evidence of believers' experience and possession of true faith, and they described suffering as a reliable sign of the true church. Finally, Luther, Karlstadt, and Muntzer each appealed to their personal sufferings to establish their authority as teachers. Conversely, certain forms of suffering---especially self-chosen sufferings---were said to be marks of falsehood and deceit. Muntzer ultimately denounced as false suffering the "passive" acceptance of persecution and oppression at the hands of the "ungodly.".
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