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Throughout its history, persecutions and martyrdom have been Christianity's faithful companions. Remarkably enough, Christians have always valued martyrdom in a positive way. This positive evaluation of martyrdom most certainly has to do with the absolute, uncompromising nature of it. The martyrs' lives and deaths represent the most uncompromising of answers to the divine call. The focus of the contributions in this volume is not in the first place on reconstructing the historical events of the martyr's life and death "wie es eigentlich gewesen ist," but on the discourse generated by this event as mediated in texts. More than a Memory aims to explore the reciprocal relationship between this ...
The Antwerp congregation of the Augsburg Confession of the year 1566/67 was the largest and most important Lutheran congregation of the Netherlands and of outstanding importance for the development of dutch Lutheranism. Before they were expelled, gnesiolutheran theologians such as Matthias Flacius and Cyriakus Spangenberg worked in the congregation. In this investigation the author shows how the daughter congregations and their connections to the Antwerp mother congregation were organised, and examines other consequences of the emigration. The book builds a bridge from the prerequisites that led to the founding of the congregation to the emergence of other congrations.
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