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Lay Prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700), written by Jürgen Beyer

Lay Prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700), written by Jürgen Beyer Jürgen Beyer, Lay Prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700) [Brill’s Series in Church History and Religious Culture 74]. Brill, Leiden/Boston 2017, xiii + 474 pp. ISBN 9789004156289. € 144; US$ 187.In his introduction to Lay Prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700) Jürgen Beyer tells us that “one of the book’s chief aims is to document the historical existence of Lutheran lay prophets.” To this one can only say that it would have been odd if there had not been any, so deeply permeated by chiliasm and predictions was the Lutheran Church from the outset. Admittedly many of the men who made their predictions were members of the clergy, but, as in the Catholic world, their writings, either directly or indirectly, also affected the less learned members of the community.Beyer’s area is Northern Germany, the Baltic provinces, and Scandinavia (including Finland and Iceland), and his investigation ends with the rise of Pietism and the ensuing fragmentation of the Lutheran Church. The individuals he has chosen to study, he tells us, respond to three criteria—they have, obviously, to be Lutherans; they receive revelations “of relevance for the community”; and their message contains “a call for repentance.” Mainly sedentary, but sometimes also peripatetic, the news of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) Brill

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Jürgen Beyer, Lay Prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700) [Brill’s Series in Church History and Religious Culture 74]. Brill, Leiden/Boston 2017, xiii + 474 pp. ISBN 9789004156289. € 144; US$ 187.In his introduction to Lay Prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700) Jürgen Beyer tells us that “one of the book’s chief aims is to document the historical existence of Lutheran lay prophets.” To this one can only say that it would have been odd if there had not been any, so deeply permeated by chiliasm and predictions was the Lutheran Church from the outset. Admittedly many of the men who made their predictions were members of the clergy, but, as in the Catholic world, their writings, either directly or indirectly, also affected the less learned members of the community.Beyer’s area is Northern Germany, the Baltic provinces, and Scandinavia (including Finland and Iceland), and his investigation ends with the rise of Pietism and the ensuing fragmentation of the Lutheran Church. The individuals he has chosen to study, he tells us, respond to three criteria—they have, obviously, to be Lutherans; they receive revelations “of relevance for the community”; and their message contains “a call for repentance.” Mainly sedentary, but sometimes also peripatetic, the news of

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