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Pilgram Marpeck : his life and social theology

Title: Pilgram Marpeck : his life and social theology / by Stephen B. Boyd.
Author: Boyd, Stephen Blake.
Publication: Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.

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Description

x, 200 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This intellectual and social history is the first comprehensive biography of Pilgram Marpeck (c. 1495 - 1556), a radical reformer and lay leader of Anabaptist groups in Switzerland, Austria, and South Germany. Marpeck's influential life and work provide a glimpse of the theologies and practices of the Roman Church and of various reform movements in sixteenth-century Europe. Whereas many leaders of radical religious groups at the time were clerics, educators, or artisans, Marpeck came to this role as a former civil mining magistrate. Drawing on extensive archival data documenting Marpeck's professional life, as well as his numerous published and unpublished writings on theology and religious reform, Stephen B. Boyd traces Marpeck's transition from mining magistrate to Anabaptist leader, establishes his connections with various radical social and religious groups, and articulates aspects of his social theology. Boyd demonstrates that Marpeck's distinctive and eclectic theology focused on the need for personal, uncoerced conversion. It rejected state interference in the affairs of the church, denied the need for a monastic withdrawal from the secular world, and called for the Christian's active pursuit of justice before God and among human beings.

Series Statement

Duke monographs in medieval and Renaissance studies ; 12

Uniform Title

Duke monographs in medieval and Renaissance studies ; no. 12.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
History
Biographies.

Note

Issued also as v. 147 of Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Abteilung Religionsgeschichte.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index.

Contents

Rattenberg: crisis of loyalty -- The mystery of the cross: theologies of suffering -- Strassburg: social and religious radicalism -- Amrpeck's theology of the cross and the Christian community -- Interim years: struggle for unity and institutional identity -- Ausburg: confessional pluralism and political conflict -- Gerechtigkeit and Marpeck's social theology.

ISBN

0822311003
9780822311003
3805311591
9783805311595

LCCN

90044076

OCLC

ocm22239634
22239634
SCSB-1987273

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Princeton University Library