Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550-1700) / / by Jurgen Beyer.

• Superior document: Brill's Series in Church History and Religious Culture, Volume 74
• VerfasserIn: Beyer, Jürgen (Senior Research Fellow),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series in church history and religious culture ; Volume 74.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 pages) :; illustrations.

Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe ( c. 1550–1700) is the first transnational study of the phenomenon of angelic apparitions in all Lutheran cultures of early modern Europe. Jürgen Beyer provides evidence for more than 350 cases and analyses the material in various ways: tracing the medieval origins, studying the spread of news about prophets, looking at the performances legitimising their calling, noting their comments on local politics, following the theological debates about prophets, and interpreting the early modern notions of holiness within which prophets operated. A full chronology and bibliography of all cases concludes the volume. Beyer demonstrates that lay prophets were an accepted part of Lutheran culture and places them in their social, political and confessional contexts.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- The Medieval Origins of Lutheran Prophecy1 -- The Dissemination of News about Prophets1 -- The Performance of Lutheran Prophets1 -- Prophets Commenting on Local Politics1 -- Prolific Prophets and Theological Debates about Prophets during the Thirty Years’ War1 -- Conceptions of Holiness in Early Modern Lutheranism1 -- List of Prophets (1517–1800).