Indulgences
Subtitle: a history of theology and reality of indulgences and purgatory, a Protestant evaluation
By: Thomas Schirrmacher
Edition: 2nd, corrected ed.
Series: Geschichte--Kirchengeschichte--Reformation -- 24; Geschichte--Kirchengeschichte--Reformation -- 24.
Publisher: Wipf & Stock
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781498206280
Subjects: Controversial literature; Indulgences; History of doctrines; Protestant authors
Work titles: Ablass
Description: This history of indulgences and purgatory has established itself as a standard summary of the history of the theological development in stages leading to the full orbed view of the 15th century and a praxis that led to split the church. The author follows the further history through the centuries through to the major changes made after the Second Vatican Council. Even though the last chapter of the book contains a detailed Protestant and Orthodox criticism of the dogmatic foundations of indulgences, the book is seen as a fair contribution by many reviewers and has earned the approval of Catholic theologians, who regrat that the planned abolition of indulgences by the Second Vatican Council did not take place.
Table of contents: title: Interacting with Roman Catholic teaching; title: Introduction; title: The history of indulgences and their theology from the time of their inception in the Middle Ages until the Reformation; title: The history of indulgences and their theology from the Reformation until the Second Vatican Council; title: The reform of the theology of indulgences prior to the Second Vatican Council and its failure during the council and into the present; title: The dogmatic debate : questions and biblical justification; title: Appendix : the development of the papacy and the final disempowerment of the council; title: Important literature regarding indulgences.