The View from the Province. A Dilemma for Protestants in Germany, 1648–1918
Nicholas Hope
Uber dem Berg gibst auch Leute. This ultramontane remark made in 1742 by Christoph Matthäus Pfaff, professor of theology and chancellor Tübingen University between 1720 1756, was intended to shake students out their cosy, provincial exclusive Lutheran theology. It time, so Pfaff argued, they opened windows, put aside arrogant hair-splitting about correct doctrine, looked at the wider Protestant world beyond Württemberg. Knowledge sources Christian Church, customs legal shape Protestantism Germany as it had developed since Reformation, provided only sure defence Church an age when autocratic behaviour fashionable with princes, temporal authority Popes Clement xi XII still inescapable fact.
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