Paix civile, sensibilités confessionnelles et érudition moderne : le bicentenaire de la Réforme dans les territoires allemands

Abstract

Organized in the escalating tensions in the Thirty Years’War, the Reformation centenary in 1617 was penetrated by the need to stabilize the value and range of Luther’s acts. One hundred years later, some dissonances resonated. The Lutherans were not only weakened in their most important territories, which were now ruled by converted princes, but also divided on the question of pietism. Extreme polemic seemed just as inappropriate. Not all contemporaries felt even the Reformation to be celebrated. The discussions of 1717 show the tensions of church and society in a time of great change between tradition and project, baroque and enlightenment, between inherited structures of communication and new modes of and vehicles for expression.

Keywords

• Reformation
• Lutheranism
• Pietism
• Commemotation
• Religious Coexistence
• Religious tension