![]() ![]() She lays out adequately the cultural and political setting in which the Colloquy of Montbéliard took place, bringing to life some of the major protagonists, ideas and the historical setting of what was one of the most significant theological and political struggles of the sixteenth century.įollowing Luther’s death, Lutheran theology experienced a consolidation. Raitt, an historical theologian, avoids both failings. Other considerations dominate their minds and texts. Historians, who live on the other side of the canyon, too often seem squeamish about theological intricacies, which they seem to find uninteresting, unfathomable, or unimportant. Such theologians too often make rash and insupportable generalizations, a failure from which they might have saved themselves with a little more historical savvy. ![]() The theologians, who live on one side of the canyon, frequently run into difficulty because they fail to take account of the concrete historical situation in which theology is formulated. ![]() Oxford: Oxford University, 1993, 226 pp., n.p.īecause of the gulf that is fixed between historians and theologians, historical theologians live in a virtual academic no-man’s land. Religion and Politics in the Sixteenth Century. Journal: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society ![]()
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