Reformation Theology

Seminar 1

Scribner, Robert W. “The Reformation, Popular Magic, and the ‘Disenchantment of the World.’” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 23, no. 3 (1993): 475–94.

Walsham, Alexandra. “The Reformation and ‘The Disenchantment of the World’ Reassessed.” The Historical Journal, vol. 51, no. 2 (2008): 497–528.

Seminar 2

Oberman, Heiko. Luther: Man Between God and the Devil. Trans. Eileen Walliser.Schwarzbart. Yale University Press, 2006. 300 pp.

Edwards, Kathryn. “Magic and the Occult in Martin Luther’s World.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.504

Seminar 3

Koslofsky, Craig M. The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, 1450-1700. Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. 200 pp.

Seminar 4

Soergel, Philip. “The Appropriation of Wonders in Sixteenth-Century Germany”; “Luther on Miracles.” In Miracles and the Protestant Imagination. *Oxford University Press, 2012. 60 pp.

Seminar 5

Soergel, Philip. “Luther on the Angels.” In Angels in the Early Modern World, eds. Peter Marshall and Alexandra M. Walsham, 64-82. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 20 pp.

Levack, Brian. Ed. The Witchcraft Sourcebook. 2nd edition. Routledge, 2015. Selections.

Cameron, Euan. “Part 3: Superstitions in Controversy: Renaissance and Reformations.” In Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750. Oxford University Press, 2010. 100 pp.

Kors, Alan Charles, and Edward Peters. Eds. Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Selections.