Miracles and the Protestant Imagination: The Evangelical Wonder Book in Reformation Germany Author: Philip M. Soergel Retail Price: $148.44 Our Price: $148.44 Save: 0.00 (0.00%) Availability: In Stock        The 'wonder book' was a new genre that appeared in the troubled years following Luther's death in 1546 and the outbreak of religious wars in teh middle of the 16th century. Originally conceived as a kind of apocalyptic text intended to interpret the ''signs of the times'' during this uncertain period, these books were filled with accounts of celestial visions, comets, natural disasters, monstrous births, and other seeming signs and portents, events in which the hand of God was revealed. As the genre developed, Philip Soergel shows, its authors, mostly Lutheran divines, came increasingly to delve into the theology of miracles and the supernatural. Writing for a mostly clerical audience, they hoped to encourage the broad revival of a sense of divine presence in everyday life. Thus, in contrast to generations of scholars who have assumed that the Reformation represented a vital step on the way to the 'disenchantment of the world,' Soergel's groundbreaking Miracles and the Protestant Imagination reveals that German evangelicals were themselves active enchanters. Similar Items you may enjoy! Women of the Reformation: In Germany and Italy Our Price: $40.38 The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany Author: R. Po-chia Hsia Our Price: $47.50 The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to 16th Century Germany and Switzerland Author: Steven E. Ozment Our Price: $52.50 The Reformation of Feeling: Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany Author: Susan C. Karant-Nunn Our Price: $72.44

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