Becoming Lutheran: The Community of Brunswick from Evangelical Reform to Lutheran Culture
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Overview
What did the Lutheran Reformation look like in a specific locality? Rev. Dr. John A. Maxfield reveals this by detailing the intellectual, personal, social, and political influences and events that shaped the Lower-Saxon town of Brunswick on its journey from evangelical reform to Lutheran culture. Lay historians, students, and clergy alike will see with great clarity how the spark of Luther’s evangelical teaching ignited in one particular community amidst ecclesiastical and political challenges.
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1: In Search of the Lutheran Reformation
- Chapter 2: Brunswick and the Question of Reform
- Chapter 3: Wittenberg Connections: Clergy Conversions in the Early Evangelical Movement in Brunswick
- Chapter 4: First Steps toward a Communal Reformation, 1523–28
- Chapter 5: Bugenhagen and the First Evangelical Church Order
- Chapter 6: Challenges to the Church Order
- Chapter 7: Town and Territory: Lutheran Brunswick, the Schmalkald League, and Duke Heinrich the Younger
- Chapter 8: Town and Empire: Brunswick and the War, the Interim, the Princes’ Revolt, and the Peace of Augsburg
- Epilogue: The Maturing Fruits of Lutheran Culture in Brunwick
- Title: Becoming Lutheran: The Community of Brunswick from Evangelical Reform to Lutheran Culture
- Author: John A. Maxfield
- Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 416
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Lutheran Church › Germany--Braunschweig--History
- ISBNs: 9780758674197, 0758674198
- Resource ID: LLS:BECOMINGLUTHERAN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-01T00:04:50Z