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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Breul
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Moderne aus dem Unte
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
3 | 25
Requirements / organisational issues:
In collaboration with archive director Dr. Johannes Burkhardt.
4 study days (16-18.10. and 19.10.excursion to Bad Berleburg, each 6h).
Preliminary meeting and seminar planning on Tuesday, July 11, 4-6pm. Room to be announced.
At the preliminary meeting, students will choose the main topics from a list of suggestions (see "Inhalt").
Compulsory attendance:
The legal regulations apply to attendance at the seminar. Active participation requires active participation in the seminar days. Non-participation in seminar days can be compensated by taking on short presentations or other written performances.
Contents:
For Ernst Troeltsch, one of the most stimulating Protestant theologians of the early 20th century, it was not the impulses of Martin Luther's theology that led to modernity (which he still saw as largely rooted in the Middle Ages), but humanism and radical representatives. The seminar inquires into the significance of radical representatives of the Pietist reform movement in the 17th and 18th centuries for modernity in theology and church. Ideas such as religious tolerance, the notion of all-reconciliation,
the emphasis on ethics and lifestyle, the equality of women, and the overcoming of confessional boundaries were present early in Pietism and especially in its radical varieties.
The exact selection of topics will be determined at the preliminary meeting on July 11. Topics will be presented, and additional topics may be suggested. Possible topics include
Introduction to the history of Pietism and radical Pietism
Roots of radical pietism in the 16th and early 17th centuries
Paracelsus
Jakob Böhme and Valentin Weigel
The counties of Sayn-Wittgenstein
The crisis of corporeality: Eva von Buttlar and her society
In simply all doctrinal points heterodox: Johann Conrad Dippel
The Role of Women in Radical Pietism
Gottfried Arnold and his reevaluation of church history
Radical mystics and mystical spiritualists
The county of Isenburg-Büdingen and tolerance (Edict of Tolerance of 1713)
The Herrnhuters on the Herrnhaag.
Recommended reading list:
Hans Schneider: Der radikale Pietismus, Teil 1, Geschichte des Pietismus Bd. 1, ed. by Martin Brecht etc., Göttingen 1993, 391-437; Teil 2, Geschichte des Pietismus Bd. 2, ed. by Martin Brecht etc, Göttingen 1995, 107-197.
Relevant articles from the Pietismus Handbuch, ed. by Wolfgang Breul and Thomas Hahn-Bruckart.
Digital teaching:
The seminar takes place in the presence.
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