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The Words of Forgiveness: Luther, The Keys, and the Nuremberg Absolution Controversy

The Words of Forgiveness: Luther, The Keys, and the Nuremberg Absolution Controversy The Words of Forgiveness: Luther, The Keys, and the Nuremberg Absolution Controversy By Terence McIntosh Incomposingabevyoftheologicalwritingsin1530whileresidingintheVeste Coburg, Martin Luther sought in large measure to construct an adamantine andinsuperabledefenseofhiscoreReformationteachings. Hedidsoinorder to discourage the Lutheran party from misrepresenting them at the Diet of Augsburg in the vain hope of negotiating a compromise with the Catholic party. For Luther, these theological writings served a largely preservative func- tion, protecting the original purity of his Reformationdoctrine. One of them, however, The Keys, not only vigorously reaffirmed earlier teachings but argu- ably also left a significant mark on the subsequent development of the Refor- mation and German Lutheranism. This mark is first discernible in the mid- 1530s during the Nuremberg absolution controversy, which can thus serve as a register of the reception and impact of Luther’s work soon after its publica- tion.Moreover,throughthecontroversy’soutcome,TheKeyshelpedtoprepare the ground for subsequent debates about the use of Lutheran private confes- sion asan instrumentof churchdiscipline. At the center of the affair stood Andreas Osiander, the imperial city’s most prominent evangelical reformer. He and Johannes Brenz, the reformer in 1. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar (Research Triangle Park, NC, August 2017). The author http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History de Gruyter

The Words of Forgiveness: Luther, The Keys, and the Nuremberg Absolution Controversy

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The Words of Forgiveness: Luther, The Keys, and the Nuremberg Absolution Controversy By Terence McIntosh Incomposingabevyoftheologicalwritingsin1530whileresidingintheVeste Coburg, Martin Luther sought in large measure to construct an adamantine andinsuperabledefenseofhiscoreReformationteachings. Hedidsoinorder to discourage the Lutheran party from misrepresenting them at the Diet of Augsburg in the vain hope of negotiating a compromise with the Catholic party. For Luther, these theological writings served a largely preservative func- tion, protecting the original purity of his Reformationdoctrine. One of them, however, The Keys, not only vigorously reaffirmed earlier teachings but argu- ably also left a significant mark on the subsequent development of the Refor- mation and German Lutheranism. This mark is first discernible in the mid- 1530s during the Nuremberg absolution controversy, which can thus serve as a register of the reception and impact of Luther’s work soon after its publica- tion.Moreover,throughthecontroversy’soutcome,TheKeyshelpedtoprepare the ground for subsequent debates about the use of Lutheran private confes- sion asan instrumentof churchdiscipline. At the center of the affair stood Andreas Osiander, the imperial city’s most prominent evangelical reformer. He and Johannes Brenz, the reformer in 1. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar (Research Triangle Park, NC, August 2017). The author

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Published: Nov 1, 2022

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