Theology

Jan Löhdefink

Zeiten des Teufels

Teufelsvorstellungen und Geschichtszeit in frühreformatorischen Flugschriften (1520–1526)

[Times of the Devil. Perception of the Devil and Historical Time in Early Reformation Pamphlets (1520–1526).]

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Jan Löhdefink looks into how perception of the devil changed during the early days of the Reformation and how this affected time consciousness. He describes the reformatory remodulation of interpreting the past, understanding the present and future prospects, which because of their strongly polemical contrasts with conflicting concepts reveal their own constitution-requirements of time perception and indicate a fundamental shift of the understanding of time.
Jan Löhdefink looks into how perception of the devil changed during the early days of the Reformation and how this affected time consciousness. He describes the reformatory remodulation of interpreting the past, understanding the present and future prospects, which because of their strongly polemical contrasts with conflicting concepts reveal their own constitution-requirements of time perception and indicate a fundamental shift of the understanding of time. Perceptions of the devil are generally attributed to the backward-looking aspects of the Reformation. However, with an eye on the inherent new configurations of the contemporary temporal structures specific to reformatory devil-perceptions, the results are reversed: as unmodern as the devil may appear to the Modern Age, he has a key position in its origins.
Authors/Editors

Jan Löhdefink Geboren 1974; 1994–2002 Studium der Ev. Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft; 2010–15 Studienrat in Hamburg, seit 2015 in Emden.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Salzburger Theologische Zeitschrift — 23 (2018), S. 141
In: Lutherjahrbuch — 84 (2017), S. 359–361 (Christopher Spehr)
In: Jahrbuch f. KommunikationsG (JbKG) — 19 (2017), S. 159 (Christoph Kaltscheuer)
In: German History — 36 (2018), S. 440–441 (Alison Rowlands)
In: Sehepunkte — http://www.sehepunkte.de/2017/01/29391.html (Daniel Bellingradt)