Tim Lorentzen

Johannes Bugenhagen als Reformator der öffentlichen Fürsorge

[Johannes Bugenhagen as a Reformer of the Public Welfare Services.]
2008. XII, 536 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-158581-4
Published in German.
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Summary
The Wittenberg theologian and church politician Johannes Bugenhagen (1485-1558) developed a model for welfare and social services in which Christian love was always to be given priority. Tim Lorentzen shows both the theory and the reality of Reformed relief for the poor.

Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation (SMHR)