RT Article
T1 The Contours of the Non-Lutheran Reformation in Germany, 1522–1546: The Distinction between the Bible-Centred Meeting Places and the Altar-Centred Churches
JF Church history and religious culture
VO 101
IS 2/3
SP 167
OP 174
A1 Stayer, James M. 1935-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1764261062
AB Abstract Among the common ways of portraying Reformation divides are the following categories: Magisterial vs Radical Reformations; or a “church type” vs a “sect type” of reform. This essay offers an alternative view. It underscores the differences between Lutherans and Anglicans on one side; and the Reformed, Anabaptists, and Schwenckfelders on the other. The Lutherans, like the Anglicans under Henry VIII , worshipped in altar-centered churches which were Roman Catholic in appearance. They presented themselves as reformers of Catholic errors of the late Middle Ages. By contrast, when the Reformed, Anabaptists, and Schwenckfelders met for worship, it was in unadorned Bible-centered meeting houses. The Anabaptists were targeted for martyrdom by the decree of the Holy Roman Empire of 1529 against Wiedertäufer (“rebaptists”). Contrary to the later memory that they practiced a theology of martyrdom, the preference of apprehended Anabaptists was to recant.
K1 altar-focused worship
K1 Schwenckfelders
K1 Spiritualists
K1 Anabaptists
K1 the Reformed
K1 Bible-focused worship
K1 Polemics
K1 Luther Renaissance
DO 10.1163/18712428-bja10025