The essay offers a survey of the preconditions, driving forces, progress and character of the Reformation in the imperial city of Nuremberg, including excursions into the later 16th century. Particular emphasis is put upon the definition of specific tensions - between the exemplary role Nuremberg played within the framework of municipal Reformation in general and its specific status; between the lines of continuity extending from the Middle Ages to the time of the Reformation and the revolutionary character of the occurrences separating the churches; between a broad communal Reformation "from below" and councilary Reformation "from above"; between leading laymen (such as Lazarus Spengler) and prominent theologians (such as Andreas Osiander); between an urge towards confessional/Lutheran homogeneity and a moderate commitment to religious denominations; and between the initial assumption of leadership in religious politics on the imperial level (until 1529) and a more guarded position concerning the later Protestant policy of alliances and militarization of the confessional conflict.

Enthalten in:
Theologische Literaturzeitung; 2011/9 Monatsschrift für das gesamte Gebiet der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (2011)

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Serie / Reihe: Theologische Literaturzeitung

Personen: Hamm, Berndt

Schlagwörter: Geschichte Reformation