Events Tagged: "Lutheran"

Danish Reformation - Christian III makes Denmark Lutheran after civil war, confiscates Church property

Jakob Böhme's mystical writings begin circulating - Lutheran shoemaker claims divine revelations - 'God is in all things, and all things are in God' - Influences later Pietists and Quakers

Philipp Jakob Spener publishes 'Pia Desideria' - Manifesto of Pietist movement - Calls for 'little churches within the church' - Six proposals for reform that bypass institutional church - Creates paradox: Inner spiritual freedom requires external mutual surveillance

Valentin Löscher critiques Pietism: 'replaced Pope's authority with worse - tyranny of awakened over sleeping'

Karl Marx baptized Lutheran at age 6