Hope and Heresy The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Cul
Apocalyptic expectations played a key role in defining the horizons of life and expectation in early modern Europe. Hope and Heresy investigates the problematic status of a particular kind of apocalyptic expectation—that of a future felicity on earth befo
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Hope and Heresy
The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture, 1570–1630
Hope and Heresy
Leigh T.I. Penman
Hope and Heresy The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture, 1570–1630
Leigh T.I. Penman Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities University of Queensland St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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Acknowledgements
The present work concerns the problematic status of optimistic apocalyptic expectations in early modern Lutheran confessional culture. It began life many years ago in a very different form as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Charles Zika. It was in Charles’s courses as an undergraduate that I first encountered the works of Robin Bruce Barnes, Johannes Wallmann and Carlos Gilly, whose research influenced the development of my own interests. During the research for this book, I was fortunate to spend time at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel on multiple occasions, firstly as a guest researcher under the auspices of the Dr. Günther Findel Stiftung and, secondly, with a fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). In Wolfenbüttel, I profited from the advice and friendship of numerous scholars whose thoughts helped to shape this work, including Jill Bepler, Jürgen Beyer, Andreas Corcoran, Warren Dym, Robert Hardwick Weston, Gizella Hoffmann, Grantley McDonald, Alexander Nebrig, Cornelia Niekus-Moore, Beth Plummer, Theo Pronk, Jenny Spinks and Douglas Shantz, as well as the fellow members an
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