Counsel and conscience : : Lutheran casuistry and moral reasoning after the reformation / / Benjamin T.G. Mayes.

• Superior document: Refo500 academic studies ; v. 1
• Author: Mayes, Benjamin T. G.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Refo500 academic studies ; v. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Hauptbeschreibung In Lutheran Germany of the post-Reformation era (ca. 1580-1750), a genre of pastoral, ethical writings arose that consisted in casuistry and in topically or thematically related theological counsels. In this first volume of the new Refo500 series Mayes shows that this casuistry literature was intended to instruct and comfort the consciences of Christians. Lutheran casuistry, related to but also distinct from Roman Catholic and Reformed counterparts, arose especially as pastors looked within Holy Scripture, the medieval tradition, and the writings of Martin Luther a

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Tables; Body; Acknowledgments; Abstract; 1 Casuistry; 1.1 Post-Reformation Lutheran Ethics; 1.2 What Is "Casuistry"?; 1.3 Anglican and Reformed Casuistry; 1.4 Roman Catholic Moral Theology and the Debate Surrounding Probabilism; 1.5 Lutheran Adaptation of Medieval Models; 1.6 The Rise of Lutheran Casuistry; 1.7 Lutheran Casuistry as Tyrannical or Pastoral?; 1.8 Conscience-Theology; 2 The Wisdom of Lutheran Orthodoxy in Print; 2.1 Information on the Compilers; 2.1.1 Georg Dedekenn (1564-1628); 2.1.2 Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-68)

2.1.3 Christian Grübel (1642-1715)2.2 Physical Configuration of the Treasury; Tables Table 1: Gerhard's expansion of Dedekenn's section 1.2.3.2; 3 The Method of Moral Reasoning; 3.1 Dedekenn's Dedicatory Epistle for Volume One (1623); 3.1.1 "Aristocratic Moral Reasoning"; 3.1.2 Deciding Cases of Conscience; 3.2 Preface by the Leipzig Theological Faculty (1623); 3.3 Preface by the Greifswald Theological Faculty (1623); 3.4 Preface by the Wittenberg Theological Faculty (1623); 3.5 Dedekenn's Dedicatory Epistle for Volume Two (1623); 3.6 Dedekenn's Dedicatory Epistle for Volume Three (1623)

3.7 Dedekenn's Dedicatory Epistle for the Appendix Volume (1623) . .3.8 Dedicatory Epistle for Volume One (1671); 3.9 Prefaces by Leipzig, Greifswald, and Wittenberg Theological Faculties (1671); 3.10 Dedicatory Epistle for Volume Two (1671); 3.11 Dedicatory Epistle for Volume Three (1671); 3.12 Grübel's Dedicatory Epistle for the Appendix Volume (1671); 3.13 Conclusions; 4 A Treasury of Cases of Conscience; 4.1 The Contents of the Treasury; Table 2: Contents of 1671 Treasury, vol. 1-3; Table 3: Largest sections in 1671 Treasury, vol. 1-3; 4.2 Sources of the Treasury

4.3 Inter-Confessional Disputes4.4 Sacraments; 4.5 Church Government and Pastoral Ministry; 4.6 Questions Regarding Public Life; 4.7 Questions Regarding Marriage and Sexual Ethics; 4.8 Christian Grübel's Focus; Table 4: Contents of Grübel's New Appendix; 4.8.1 New Disputes within the Lutheran Church; Table 5: Largest sections in Grübel's New Appendix; 4.8.2 Helmstedt Theology; 4.8.3 Inter-Confessional Disputes; 4.8.4 Privileges of the Ministerium; 4.9 Conclusions; 5 Case in Point: Divorce and Remarriage; 5.1 Lutheran Divorce and Remarriage: A Lax Practice?

5.2 The Legitimate Causes for Divorce5.2.1 Adultery; 5.2.2 Malicious Desertion; 5.2.3 Inability of Bodies for the Use of Matrimony (Impotence) .; 5.2.4 Error; 5.2.5 Violence; 5.2.6 Impiety; 5.2.7 Hemmingsen's Arguments and Position within the Treasury; 5.2.8 Cases by Brenz and Others; 5.2.9 Illegitimate Causes of Divorce; 5.3 Impotence and Refusal of Conjugal Obligation; 5.3.1 Impotence; 5.3.2 Refusing Conjugal Obligation; 5.4 Violence; 5.5 Differing Religions; 5.6 Remarriage for Whom?; 5.7 Conclusions; 6 Outcome and Conclusion; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover