The reformation of the keys
Subtitle: confession, conscience, and authority in sixteenth-century Germany
By: Ronald K. Rittgers.
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Harvard
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Description: This is a study of the role of Lutheran private confession in the German Reformation, which was part of a fundamental transformation to rid the Church and society of alleged clerical abuses and had profound implications for the use of religious authority in 16th-century Germany.