Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century

by Beth Kreitzer

Catholics and Protestants have, since the earliest days of the Reformation, held markedly different views about the Virgin Mary. In Reforming Mary Beth Kreitzer examines the development of Lutheran views on this subject as expressed in 16th-century Lutheran published sermons, starting with the earliest of Luther's own Reformation sermons.
She shows that from the beginning Lutherans rejected much of the theology and piety that surrounded Mary in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019516654X
• ISBN13: 9780195166545
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"