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7 - Para-Academic Theology: Theology of the “Uneducated”

from Part One - Theology in an Age of Cultural Transformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2023

By
Geoffrey Dipple
Edited by
Kenneth G Appold  and
Nelson Minnich
Kenneth G Appold
Affiliation:
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
Nelson Minnich
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

The Reformation began, and arguably ended, as the work of learned theologians. Yet, for a brief period of time, it gave unprecedented opportunity to uneducated lay people to voice their theological opinions publicly, and the echoes of this activity continued through much of the long Reformation.

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The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology , pp. 123 - 133
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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