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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Breul
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
KG IV
Hours per week:
4
Credits:
4,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
3 | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
Addressed to:
all students of theology
students of other faculties.
Exam candidates to review the content.
The lecture provides overview knowledge for the intermediate exam, B.Ed, M.Ed. and exam preparation (integration phase).
Form of the lecture
The lecture takes place in presence. I am very interested in your questions and in talking about the contents of the lecture. Therefore, I provide the lecture manuscript for preparation and post-reading for the active participants. It can also be used to bridge occasional absences.
Contents:
The lecture is focused on the period between the Reformation of the 16th century and the French Revolution (1789) and thus three formative phases of Protestantism in Europe: Orthodoxy and especially Pietism and Enlightenment. The lecture combines topics in the history of the church and theology with introductions to political, social, and cultural developments.
Overview:
1. Thirty Years' War and Peace of Westphalia.
War and peace treaty
The religious-political regulations of the Peace of Westphalia
The peace and its consequences
Witch hunt
2. church and theology in the age of orthodoxy
Absolutist state and Protestant national church
Lutheran Orthodoxy
Reformed Orthodoxy
The Catholic Church in the Empire after the Council of Trent
Heterodox movements
3. development of Protestantism in the 17th century in Europe
England
Netherlands
France
Eastern Europe (example Hungary)
4. the pietistic reform movement in the 17th and 18th century
Johann Arndt
Philipp Jakob Spener
Beginnings of the pietistic reform movement
August Hermann Francke and the Halle Pietism
Radical Pietism
Zinzendorf and the Herrnhut Brethren Community
The Württemberg Pietism
Pietist nonconformism
Marriage and sexuality in Pietism
Conversion and biography
New eschatology (expectation of the future)
5 Theology and Church in the Age of Enlightenment
Beginnings of the Enlightenment in Europe
Main figures of the early Enlightenment in the German Empire
Absolutism and Enlightenment: Frederick II in Prussia and Joseph II in Austria
The Theological Enlightenment
The Popular Enlightenment
Recommended reading list:
- Thomas Kaufmann u. Raymund Kottje: Ökumenische Kirchengeschichte Bd. 2, Darmstadt 20082.
- Pietismus. Eine Anthologie von Quellen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 2017.
- Pietismus Handbuch, hg. v. Wolfgang Breul und Thomas Hahn-Bruckart, Tübingen 2021 (im Uni-Netz digital verfügbar).
Additional information:
This course is relevant for the intermediate examination in the course of studies Mag. Theol. according to § 20 (4).
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