The Age of Reform as an Age of Consolation
Ronald K. Rittgers
This article seeks to provide a new way of interpreting the Age Reform and its legacy on occasion Protestant Reformation's 500th anniversary. Over past several decades, many scholars have interpreted through lens “Discipline Paradigm.” They stressed centrality social moral discipline in for modern world. paradigm has inspired much important original scholarship, yet it also failed take account significant aspects Reform. revise challenge Paradigm” by focusing one most widespread practices period: verbal consolation. There was an unprecedented flowering such consolation largely ignored their treatments period. demonstrate how viewing as Consolation can insight into character Reform, and, indeed, human existence past.
Church History