The Inner Word and the Outer World

A Biography of Sebastian Franck

• Author(s): Patrick Marshall Hayden-Roy,
• Publisher: P. Lang
• Pages: 213
• ISBN_10: 0820420832
  ISBN_13: 9780820420837
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Historical , History / General , History / Europe / General , History / Europe / Germany , History / Europe / Renaissance , History / Social History , Literary Criticism / European / German , Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical , Religion / Christian Theology / History , Religion / Christianity / Calvinist ,

Description:... This study focuses on one of the most idiosyncratic and interesting figures of the German Reformation, Sebastian Franck (1499-1542). Franck's life traces the margins of sixteenth-century religious dissent and the tolerance of heterodoxy. The book details Franck's appropriation of late medieval mysticism and humanism, which he shaped into a critique of all religious institutions and ideologies of his day, Catholic, Protestant, and Anabaptist. The work also examines the responses of religious and political authorities to Franck's critique; responses which revealed the fissures in the hierarchies of rule of the early Reformation, and the possibility for dissent in the age of religious reform.