Pilgram Marpeck: His Life and Social TheologyThis intellectual and social history is the first comprehensive biography of Pilgram Marpeck (c. 1495–1556), a radical reformer and lay leader of Anabaptist groups in Switzerland, Austria, and South Germany. Marpeck’s influential life and work provide a glimpse of the theologies and practices of the Roman Church and of various reform movements in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on extensive archival data documenting Marpeck’s professional life, as well as on his numerous published and unpublished writings on theology and religious reform, Stephen B. Boyd traces Marpeck’s unconventional transition from mining magistrate to Anabaptist leader, establishes his connections with various radical social and religious groups, and articulates aspects of his social theology. Marpeck’s distinctive and eclectic theology, Boyd demonstrates, focused on the need for personal, uncoerced conversion, rejected state interference in the affairs of the church, denied the need for a monastic withdrawal from the secular world, and called for the Christian’s active pursuit of justice before God and among human beings. |
Contents
Crisis of Loyalty | 5 |
Theologies of Suffering | 25 |
Social and Religious Radicalism | 43 |
Chapter 4 Marpecks Theology of the Cross and the Christian Community | 69 |
Struggle for Unity and Institutional Identity | 97 |
Confessional Pluralism and Political Conflict | 127 |
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According to Marpeck Anabaptism Anabaptists Antwort Appenzell Aufdeckung Augsburg baptism Bekenntnis believer Blough body of Christ Bucer Bünderlin Bürgermeister Capito Caspar Schwenckfeld Castenbaur chapter Christian Christologie Christologie Anabaptiste church city's civil authority coercion concerning Confession conscience council creatures cross of Christ death Denck divine Entfelder external faith Ferdinand fleisch Frankfurter Fuggers Gallen geist Geister Geschichte gewalt gospel Gottes Graubünden guild Hans Denck Heinold Fast Holy Spirit human Hutterites hypostasis Ibid individual Innsbruck Jakob Johann Jörg justice Kinzig leben letter LRAT Luther Maler Mecenseffy mediated Melchior Hoffman mining magistrate mode Moravia nature notion oath obedience participation pastor person Pilgram Marpeck political preached radical Rattenberg realm of Christ received Reformation reordering responsibility Reublin Scharnschlager Schiemer Schlaffer Schmalkaldic War Schwaz Schwenckfeld social Spiritualists Stadt Strasbourg Strassburg Strauß suffering Swiss Brethren Täufer Täufertum Theologia Deutsch theology Tirol unconstraining Spirit unnd Verantwurtung Vermahnung