Luther: Katholizitat und Reform

English summary: Being a Reform Catholic Martin Luther is rooted in a permanent way in his church, the Latin Church. Shaped by the monastic tradition, Luther developed his theology in discussion with the scholastic theology of his day. It is a fact of effective history that the Wittenberg reform movement led to the establishment of an independent confessional church. That is, at the same time, the great ecumenical challenge which this book, as a fruit of the great ecumenical Luther...
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English summary: Being a Reform Catholic Martin Luther is rooted in a permanent way in his church, the Latin Church. Shaped by the monastic tradition, Luther developed his theology in discussion with the scholastic theology of his day. It is a fact of effective history that the Wittenberg reform movement led to the establishment of an independent confessional church. That is, at the same time, the great ecumenical challenge which this book, as a fruit of the great ecumenical Luther symposium in Erfurt 2014, is willing to meet. German description: Als Reformkatholik ist Martin Luther in seiner Kirche, der lateinischen Kirche, bleibend verwurzelt. Gepragt durch die monastische Tradition, die er in seinem Orden kennen lernt, entfaltet Luther seine Theologie in Auseinandersetzung mit der scholastischen Theologie seiner Zeit. In seinem Anliegen, die reformbedurftige Kirche seiner Zeit zu erneuern, beschreitet er zugleich neue Wege. Dass sich die Wittenberger Reformbewegung zu einer eigenstandigen Konfessionskirche entwickelt, ist ein wirkungsgeschichtliches Faktum. Darin liegt aber auch die okumenische Herausforderung, der sich dieses Buch als Frucht des grossen okumenischen Luthersymposiums, das im Herbst 2014 in Erfurt stattfand, stellen will.