Scott H. Hendrix, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

• Contents: Luther against the background of the history of biblical interpretation; The authority of scripture at work: Luther's exegesis of the Psalms; The use of scripture in establishing Protestantism: the case of Urbanus Rhegius; Validating the Reformation: the use of the church fathers by Urbanus Rhegius; Deparentifying the fathers, the reformers and patristic authority; In quest of the vera ecclesia: the crises of late medieval ecclesiology; ’We are all Hussites’? Hus and Luther revisited; Considering the clergy's side: a multilateral view of anticlericalism; Luther et la papauté; Urbanus Rhegius and the Augsburg Confession; Toleration of the Jews in the German Reformation: Urbanus Rhegius and Braunschweig 1535-1540; Christianizing domestic relations: women and marriage in Johann Freder's Dialogus dem Ehestand zu Ehren; Luther's loyalties and the Augustinian order; Luther's contribution to the disunity of the Reformation; Luther's communities; Martin Luther and Albrecht von Mainz: aspekte von Luthers reformatorischem selbstbewußtein; Luther's impact in the 16th century; Index.

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