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Heiko A. Oberman's Masters of the Reformation - first published in German under the title Werden and Wertung der Reformation - is a general survey of academic thought and its impact on a wider world from the later Middle Ages to the emergence of Luther and the city Reformation. The book uses the early history of the University of Tubingen to illuminate late fifteenth-century theological developments and the first stirrings of the Reformation. Oberman shows from the beginning that the University of Tubingen was no ivory tower. Rather, it was a vantage point from which important trends were discerned and vital impulses disseminated. In a second section, he then describes the creation of a distinctive `Tübingen school', actively involved in the territorial policies of Württemberg and wrestling with the major ethical problems of the day. In the third section of the book, convincing links are established between the nominalist tradition and the intellectual context of the south German Reformation. Oberman emphasises the practical application of theology to social and ethical issues, and shows how this prepared the way for the Reformation as a spiritual and material liberation.
Contents
Part I. Intellectual Renewal: 1. The ivory tower: the university as observatory; 2. The impact of humanism: fact and fancy; 3. The scholastic rift: a parting of the ways; 4. The devotio moderna: movement and mystery; 5. Patterns of thought on the eve of upheaval; 6. The Augustine renaissance in the later Middle Ages; Part II. The Grapes of Wrath: 7. A theology of turmoil: the ferment of ideas; 8. The ethics of capitalism: the clash of interests; 9. The power of witchcraft: devil and devotion; Part III. New Jerusalem within the old Walls: 10. Magistri and magistracy: the old and new masters; 11. The great visitation: bishop and city; 12. The onset of the Counter-Reformation; 13. The Reformation: a German tragedy?
