Counsel and Conscience | Lutheran Casuistry and Moral Reasoning after the Reformation

Benjamin T. G. Mayes

ISBN 10: 3525550278 / ISBN 13: 9783525550274

Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011

Counsel and Conscience | Lutheran Casuistry and Moral Reasoning after the Reformation | Benjamin T. G. Mayes | Buch | 250 S. | Deutsch | 2011 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht | EAN 9783525550274 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Theaterstr. 13, 37073 Göttingen, ute[dot]schnueckel[at]brill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 133810768

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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 and other Lutheran authorities for answers to ethical problems and doctrinal disputes, and then catalogued their findings. As an extensive example from this genre Mayes examines the Thesaurus Consiliorum Et Decisionum, published in 1671 by Georg Dedekenn and Johann Ernst Gerhard. This Thesaurus was an anthology of wise advice from Lutheran theologians and jurists, published to encourage readers to avoid individualistic ethical choices and instead to engage in an aristocratic process of moral decision making in which one would consult the wise men of the past and present. The counsels included in the Thesaurus address inter-confessional disputes, intra-Lutheran disputes, sacraments, church government, pastoral ministry, social ethics, marriage, sexual ethics, and many other topics. The topics of divorce and remarriage, especially, show the different ways in which Lutherans reasoned about moral matters. The author shows that in the Thesaurus the Lutheran casuistry literature, which has been overlooked in most scholarship of the 20th and 21st centuries, was in bloom. It arose to meet the needs of people who had doubts, and it continued to instruct and console Christian consciences for many generations.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Dr Benjamin T. G. Mayes is an editor at the Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, USA.

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Titel: Counsel and Conscience | Lutheran Casuistry ...
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Buch
Zustand: Neu