“Nit allein den rechtglaubigen, sonder auch den irrigen: Two Sixteenth-Century German Catholic Prayer Books as Tools of Re-Catholicisation”
Fredrik Norberg-Schiefauer
Abstract This article presents two German Catholic prayer books written by the sixteenth-century priests Johann Faber OP and Peter Michael Brillmacher SJ – known for their catechetical apologetical work in areas of confessional division. Adding to claims early twentieth-century researchers that these were used “resisting combating Protestantism,” I argue they tools re-Catholicising Protestant populations. By referring Church fathers “and old Christians” as proof ancient origin orthodoxy beliefs practices questioned reformers, countering “misconceptions” about faith, authors strived lead readers direction toward “true religion divine worship.”
Journal of early modern Christianity