Wzorce przeżywania pobożności a kultura Reformacji
Patterns of Piety and the Culture of Reformation

Author(s): Kamila Żukowska
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Middle Ages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: devotion; devotio moderna; Middle Ages; Reformation; mysticism
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to analyse the transformations of the forms of late medieval folk piety in Germany and Netherlands. Two types of late medieval religious expression were distinguished: the so-called extraverted piety, being a ritualised form faith, and the devotio moderna movement as instantiated by the mysticism of Meister Eckhart. By using the passages from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, De theologia mistica by Jacobus de Paradiso and Theologia Germanica both types of piety were presented as preparing the ground for the Reformation.

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