"Luther gereformeert": Vier eeuwen Nederlandse gereformeerden over Luther

This article describes how Dutch Reformed authors throughout the ages perceived Martin Luther. Their perception was ambiguous: they tended to glorify Luther as the founding father of the Reformation, but criticized Lutherans because of their, as Reformed felt it, half-hearted Reformation. The Reform...

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Main Author: Veen, Mirjam van 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Dutch
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Published: Amsterdam University Press [2018]
In: Trajecta
Year: 2018, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 301-323
IxTheo Classification:KAA Church history
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBD Benelux countries
KDD Protestant Church
Further subjects:B Calvinism
B Lutherans
B Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564
B Reformation
B Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
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Summary:This article describes how Dutch Reformed authors throughout the ages perceived Martin Luther. Their perception was ambiguous: they tended to glorify Luther as the founding father of the Reformation, but criticized Lutherans because of their, as Reformed felt it, half-hearted Reformation. The Reformed identified themselves as the true inheritors of Luther's Reformation, who accomplished the work Luther had started. In the nineteenth century the Reformed perception of Luther underwent a significant change: Reformed ceased to describe the Dutch Reformation as a large, diverse movement and started to focus on John Calvin. Hence they started to portray the Dutch Reformation as a univocal Calvinistic Reformation.
ISSN:2665-9484
Contains:Enthalten in: Trajecta