"Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs": Martin Luther S Interpretation of the Women of Genesis in the Enarrationes in Genesin, 1535-1545 (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (832 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9004128948 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 334 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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'"Mattox's research is throrough and his arguments persuasive."' Susan C. . Karant-Nunn, "Renaissance Quarterly," 2004
"New wine in old wine skins, Professor?." according to E. Marshall-Smith. You know, I read with great interest recently, how a holocaust museum had to ask the LDS folks to STOP baptizing the murder victims who died jewish, into the Mormon movement. I have to wonder what Luther would have said about this ill fitting cassock you've asked him to slip intoagain. What's great about the US, is that we're free to believe as we choose, even the most pointless things! such as the idea that given more time, Martin Luther ( Of ALL people! ) would have gotten ove
Mickey Leland Mattox, Ph.D. . (1997) in Religion, Duke University, is Research Professor in the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France
Five further chapters examine Sarah, Hagar, Rachel, the daughters and wife of Lot, and Potiphar s wife.". Two chapters evaluate Luther s interpretation of Eve, noting his understanding of the ideal relations between men and women. Their everyday sanctity, exercised for the most part within the limits Luther believed God had imposed on their sex, displayed the kind of piety he thought should animate Christian women in their own households. This work examines Martin Luther s interpretation of the female characters in the stories of Genesis, drawing attention to his appropriation of premodern catholic interpretations of the biblical saints. In Luther s hands, many of these women became heroic examples of the godly life newly adapted to the worldly asceticism of emerging Protestantism