Defining Lutheranism

Natalia Nowakowska · 2018

Modern scholarship on theories of religion, and on the early Reformation, has grappled with the problem of how to define a movement such as Lutheranism.

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Natalia Nowakowska
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2018
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Oxford University Press

Modern scholarship on theories of religion, and on the early Reformation, has grappled with the problem of how to define a movement such as Lutheranism. What did King Sigismund I of Poland and his subjects, in their own day, perceive Lutheranism to be? This chapter uses language analysis of a diverse and large corpus of sources from across the Polish monarchy to answer that question. Among Catholics, Lutheranism was only weakly identified as a heresy, and medieval anti-heretical rhetoric rarely deployed against it. Lutheranism was, instead, read as an epidemic of familiar forms of irreligiosity—e.g. sacrilege. It was principally characterized as a threat to peace, unity, and community (in town, kingdom, Christendom)—its actual doctrines of only minimal interest. The King’s Lutheran subjects, by contrast, defined themselves insistently with reference to the doctrine of ‘<italic>sola fide</italic>’.

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