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In this wide-ranging volume, Heiko A. Oberman traces threads of continuity flowing to and from the Reformation. Many of his most important studies appear here in English for the first time. Professor Oberman explores “experiential” mysticism; the tradition of humility; the “battle on two fronts” waged by the Wittenburg circle against Pierias and Eck; Luther’s medieval and apocalyptical...

morality across confessional lines, indeed ecumenically, despite all changes in the understanding of Satan. It is not difficult to imagine the results, had these artists been influenced by Luther, had the Devil and his lackeys raged not among the godless, but among the righteous: ‘Diabolus non quiescet [the Devil does not rest] when he is about to lose his kingdom: if you wish to and if you do honor God’s name by your teaching and by the example you set, the Devil will attack you keenly in your person,
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