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LUMEN publishes regularly new blog entries on theoretical, methodical, and empirical elements of its ongoing research.
In early Lutheranism, sermons, confessions and catechisms were not the only avenues through which the new doctrine of justification spread. At the…
After the Reformation, the Danish nobility developed a tradition for published death sermons written by the clerical elite. These death sermons were…
What is wrong with giving only to the deserving poor? Any discomfort with the word - deserving - stems from the subjective nature of determining who…
Right from the outset, Luther’s attack on works righteousness was criticised for the implication that people were thereby released from the obligation…
For some time, our research group in LUMEN has been investigating the possible impact of the Reformation upon the formation of society. The…
In this post I suggest that negative emotions described in the religious literature as an element in an un-Christian life can bring us closer to an…
After the Reformation, the Danish nobility began producing memorials featuring nobles staring directly at the congregation. In this blog entry, I will…
In many ways, the practice of the Eucharist in early modern Denmark was a feature of the efforts made to build stable communities. On the one hand,…
The connection between religion on the one hand, and social change and the formation of societies on the other hand, has been steadily attracting…
One very famous result of the Reformation is often summed up in the statement that Luther helped reemphasize the congregation as the centre of…
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