Miracles and the Protestant Imagination: The Evangelical Wonder Book in Reformation Germany

by Philip M. Soergel

Book Overview

The Reformation's war against the saints and their miracles is well known. The story of the Protestant Reformers' embrace of natural wonders as miracles that could similarly spur piety and moral discipline is much less familiar. In Miracles and the Protestant Imagination, Philip M. Soergel examines the sixteenth-century Lutheran wonder books, works filled with accounts of monstrous births, celestial apparitions, natural disasters, plagues, and other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199844666
• ISBN13: 9780199844661
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"