The Reformation of Feeling: Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany

In The Reformation of Feeling, Susan Karant-Nunn looks beyond and beneath the formal doctrinal and moral demands of the Reformation in Germany to examine the emotional tenor of the programs that the emerging creeds--revised Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism/Reformed theology--developed
for their members. As revealed by the surviving sermons from this period, preaching clergy of each faith both explicitly and implicitly provided their listeners with distinct models of a mood to be cultivated. To encourage their parishioners to make an emotional investment in their faith, all three
groups drew upon rhetorical elements that were already present in late medieval Catholicism and elevated them into confessional touchstones.

This book is exceptional in its presentation of a cultural rather than theological or behavioral study of the broader movement to remake Christianity. As Karant-Nunn conclusively demonstrates, in the eyes of the Reformation's formative personalities strict adherence to doctrine and upright demeanor
did not constitute an adequate piety. The truly devout had to engage their hearts in their faith.


Author: Susan C. Karant-Nunn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/12/2012
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199964017

About the Author

Susan C. Karant-Nunn is Regents' Professor of History and Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona.

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