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German History 2008 26(3):406-422; doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghn027
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the German History Society. All rights reserved.

The Reformation between Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Reflections on Recent Writings on the German Reformation

Tom Scott

ts30@st-andrews.ac.uk

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We have come a long way since Thomas Carlyle could declare, ‘The Diet of Worms, Luther's appearance there on the 17th of April 1521, may be considered as the greatest scene in Modern European History; the point, indeed, from which the whole subsequent history of civilization takes its rise.’ The days when the sage of Ecclefechan could stylize Luther as the ‘Hero as Priest’ are long gone,1 and accounts of the Reformation which ascribed the victory of Protestantism to manifest destiny, or indeed to the hand of God, have expired and are now unlikely to be resurrected, except by right-wing American fundamentalists. Amongst historians, pluralism, gradualism and uncertainty have become watchwords in interpreting the spread of evangelical beliefs. Yet the cooling of religious ardour in a post-Christian age, when it has become politically incorrect to profess anything other than ecumenical principles, has led to no visible lessening of interest in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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