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4 - A Reformation Stake in Medieval Thinking

from Part II - Medieval Protestants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2022

Christopher Ocker
Affiliation:
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
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This chapter examines the decline of an historical idea, namely, that the Reformation marked a rupture in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. In that idea, the Reformation was supposed to interrupt and begin to dismantle medieval philosophy, theology, science, aesthetics, politics, and even popular mentalities. Since the publication of Heiko Oberman’s Harvest of Medieval Theology (1963), many historians have abandoned the idea that the Reformation marked a radical, modernizing break from medieval thought and culture.Instead, scholars see the Reformation as a series of incremental changes taking place over a long period of time, roughly between 1450 and 1650. The chapter explains the constructive role of medieval theology in Protestant thought on the example of Matthias Flacius Illyricus, and it summarizes and interprets recent scholarship on the late medieval background to Reformation thought.

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The Hybrid Reformation
A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces
, pp. 67 - 99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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