Lutheran Theology and the shaping of society: The Danish Monarchy as Example - The Danish Monarchy as Example

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Bo Kristian Holm / Nina Javette Koefoed: Studying the Impact of Lutheranism on Societal Development

1. The Reformation in Denmark

2. The Framework of Confessional Culture in the Case of Denmark

3. The Importance of the “Social Imaginary” for Both Theology and Social Studies

4. Theses

5. Lutheran Theology as a Social Teaching in Itself

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Theodor Dieter: Martin Luther's 95 Theses on Indulgences

Introduction

1. The Medieval Background of Indulgences

2. Interpretation of the Basic Structure of Martin Luther's 95 Theses

3. Consequences for Human Self-understanding

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Vítor Westhelle: Faith and Love

1. Institution and Constitution

2. The Lutheran Ethos, or How Does This Play Out?

3. Bondage of the Will

4. Love and Grace

5. Unio Hypostatica

6. The Regimes

7. Apocalyptic

8. Usury

9. Love's Public Rational Responsibility

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Hans-Martin Gutmann: Intimacy, Shame, Justification

1. Intimacy, Not Order

2. The Shift from Outer to Inner Governance

3. The Theological Construction of the Notion of an Intimate Interior Space

4. Between Conceptualization and Reality

5. Harmony and Conflict

6. The Coming Grandiose Experience

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Bo Kristian Holm: Dynamic Tensions in the Social Imaginaries of the Lutheran Reformation

1. Identifying a Lutheran Social Doctrine

1.1. The Social Dimension of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone

1.2. Lutheran Relationality

2. The Lutheran Theological Use of the Nuptial Metaphor

2.1. The Ambiguity of the Nuptial Metaphor

2.2. The Necessary De-Erotizing of the Nuptial Imagery

3. The Lutheran Use of the Father-Child Metaphor

4. Equality and Hierarchy in the Reformers' Use of Metaphors

4.1. Luther's Political Use of the Nuptial Metaphor

4.2. The Advantage of Family metaphors

5. Social Aspects of Luther's Understanding of the Lord's Supper

6. Luther's Doctrine of the Three Estates as Social Imaginary Formed by Luther's “Sacramental Realism”

7. Conclusion

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Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa: “Honor Your Father And Mother”

1. Introduction: Restructuring Society on the Basis of Honor

2. Honor at the Intersection between the Heavenly and the Earthly Realm

3. Faith, Works, and the Honor of God

3.1. Acknowledging God's Will through Faith

3.2. Obeying God's Will through Faith

3.3. Faith Honors God

4. Honor in the Earthly Hierarchies

4.1. Reinstating Ecclesial and Societal Order through the Catechisms

4.2. Sin and the Human Need for Subordination

4.3. The Hierarchies of the Three Estates as God's Order of Creation

4.4. The Profanity of the Church and the Sacredness of Everyday Life

4.5. The Relation to God Limits Earthly Obedience

5. The Relation of Honor

5.1. A Dual Obligation of Love

5.2. Honor as a Divine Attribute

5.3. Obedience and Fear

6. Human Equality and the Hierarchies of Honor

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Candace L. Kohli: The Gift of the Indwelling Spirit

1. Introduction

2. Systematic Requirements for Human Moral Action

3. Moral Reasoning and the Spirit in Luther's ?Christian Youth' Narrative

4. The Spirit as Anthropological Resource

5. Conclusions

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Thomas Kaufmann: Lutheran Academic Culture in Early Modernity – Some Remarks

1. Introduction

2. Academic Culture in Reformation Church and Society

3. Lutheran Changes to Medieval Universities

4. The Theological Knowledge

5. Popular Effects of Lutheran Academic Reforms

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Mattias Skat Sommer: Three Estates and Three Uses of the Law in Niels Hemmingsen's Liffsens Vey

1. Theological Theory and Confessional Politics: The Case of the Three Estates

2. Niels Hemmingsen in Confessional Denmark and Europe

3. Ethical Thinking in Luther and Melanchthon

4. Hemmingsen's Integration of Lutheran and Melanchthonian Thought

5. Conclusion

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Svend Andersen: Two Kingdoms, Three Estates, and Natural Law

1. Introduction

2. Two Kingdoms, Three Estates and Natural Law in Luther

2.1. The Two Kingdoms Doctrine

2.2. The Doctrine about the Three Estates

2.3. Natural Law

3. Natural Law and Three Estates in Niels Hemmingsen

4. Holberg: Natural Law without Three Estates Doctrine?

5. Conclusion

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Gorm Harste: A Culture of Sovereignty

1. Introduction

2. The Co-Evolution of Reformation and Militarily Revolutionized “Reason of State”

3. French Lessons of Trans-confessionalism: Jean Bodin and the Constitution of Sovereignty

4. The Devoted Officers and Citizens

5. The Absolute Sovereign “Rule by the Grace of God in the Danish Monarchy”

6. The Dark Shadows of Dialectic Enlightenment

7. Conclusion: A Danish Secularization?

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Rasmus Skovgaard Jakobsen: The Burden of the Highborn

1. A Noble Altar

2. Methodological Frame

3. Previous Research

4. The Historical Context

5. The Source Material: Death Sermons as Media of Negotiation

6. The Lutheran Virtues

6.1. The Noble Encounter with Lutheran Ideas

6.2. What Did the Nobility Learn from Luther?

7. The Duties of the Magistrate as a Central Part of the Noble Ideal

7.1. The Magistrate as a Noble Ideal

7.2. Good Works as Proof of Noble Faith

8. Concluding Remarks

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Laura Katrine Skinnebach: Family Matters

1. Introduction: Spritualization of Oeconomia

2. Material Objects and the Shaping of Social Imaginaries

3. The Fundamental Presence of Christ

4. The Social Imaginary of the Devout Household: The Case of Devotional Books

5. The “Image” of the Godly Household: The Case of Epitaphs

6. Concluding Remarks

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Agnes Arnórsdóttir: Marriage Regulations in Denmark and Iceland 1550–1650

1. Introduction

2. Lutheran Understanding of Marriage: From Sacred Contract to Social Institution

3. New Marriage Legislation and Legal Practices in the Danish Church Ordinance

4. The Role of the Lords Supper and Sexual Control

5. The Status of Legitimate and Illegitimate Children

6. Change in Marital Property Agreements in Iceland

7. The Earthly Family and New Understandings of Motherhood

8. Conclusion

Bibliography

Archival sources

Søren Feldtfos Thomsen: Marital Love, Marital Obedience

1. Introduction

2. Love and Obedience in Martin Luther's Understanding of Marriage

3. Social Order and Emotional Order in the Marital Household

4. Cultivating Emotion: Domestic Prayer

5. Managing Emotion: Devotional Literature for Women

6. Conclusion

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Nina Javette Koefoed: The Lutheran Household as Part of Danish Confessional Culture

1. Introduction

2. Confessional and Legal Background

3. Social Relations Built on the Fourth Commandment

4. Development of the Theological Frame in the Eighteenth Century

5. Regulating the Household: The Responsible Parent and Master

6. Creating the Good Christian Household in Practice

7. Regulating the Household: Disobedient Children and Servants

8. Disobedience in Practice

9. In Conclusion

Bibliography

Petitions

Archival sources

List of Abbreviations

List of Authors

List of Illustrations

Index of Names

Index of Subjects