The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

Abstract

contain gross distortions of the record.One of them holds that the Luther Renaissance arose from Karl Holl's privilege of being the first major scholar to have full benefit of the Weimar edition (est.1883) of the reformer's writings.This legend reduces Holl to, at best, a "mere scholar," something he escaped by turning to Luther; and it reproduces, at worst, the treatment of Luther as a new, "third" revelation, through the lens of whose teachings those of Paul and, more distantly, Jesus could once again be regarded as true.Another legend holds that Barth represents the antithesis of what the others, especially the Luther Renaissance, stood for.This is true only at the political level, and only from the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s.During the mid-1920s, when the Dialectical Theology was riding high, Barth fully participated in its lutherocentricity.