Theology

Philipp Jakob Spener

Briefe aus der Frankfurter Zeit 1666–1686

Band 7: 1684–1685
Herausgegeben von Udo Sträter und Johannes Wallmann in Zusammenarbeit mit Klaus vom Orde

[Letters from the Frankfurt Period 1666–1686. Volume 7: 1684–1685.]

2019. XXXV, 716 pages.
229,00 €
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ISBN 978-3-16-159115-0
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Published in German.
Volume 7 includes 148 letters, written in the years 1684 and 1685.
Philipp Jakob Spener's name is closely associated with the beginnings of the pietistic movement in the German Lutheran church. His letters are not only a very important source for research of the early Modern Age, but in the fields of church history, social history, and the history of ideas, too. The 148 letters written in 1684 and 1685 that this volume features are, however, not well known and as yet little researched. They reveal how Spener interacted with friends who split from the church, while the violent repression of the westerly Rhine regions by the French king Louis XIV and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes is also reflected in many letters. And with Spener suffering from a persistent illness at this time, 1685 could thus be seen as a year of crises for him.
Authors/Editors

Philipp Jakob Spener 1635–1705, Begründer des lutherischen Pietismus

Udo Sträter Geboren 1952; Studium der Geschichte, Germanistik und Ev. Theologie; 1985 Promotion; 1991 Habilition; Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU); 2010 Rektor der MLU; 2018 emeritiert.

Johannes Wallmann (1930–2021) Studium der Ev. Theologie in Berlin und Tübingen; 1961 Promotion; 1968 Habilitation; ab 1971 Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum; dort 1995 emeritiert; ab 2003 Honorarprofessor an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

Klaus vom Orde Geboren 1956; Studium der Ev. Theologie und Philosophie; 1990 Promotion; 1993 Wiss. Mitarbeiter in der Spenerarbeitsstelle (DFG) in Bochum und 2008 in Berlin; 2011 Arbeitsstellenleiter der Forschungsstelle „Edition der Spenerbriefe“ an der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — 146 (2021), S. 309–311 (Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele)
In: Arbeitskreis f. Evangelikale Theologie — https://rezensionen.afet.de/?p=1221 (Ulrike Treusch)
In: Theologische Revue — https://doi.org/10.17879/thrv-2021–3569 (Dietrich Blaufuß)
In: ZEITARBEIT — 2 (2020), S. 135–136 (Thomas Nicklas)