Regensburg Religious Discussion (1546)

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The Regensburg Religious Discussion of 1546 was a diversionary maneuver by the Emperor Charles V , which was intended to distract the Protestant imperial estates from his preparations for war to suppress the Reformation .

The religious talk took place from January 27 to March 10, 1546 in Regensburg , in the run-up to the Diet of Regensburg (which opened late in June) in 1546. It was from the emperor in view of the Pope Paul III. in March 1545 Trent convened council were scheduled to the point at issue between Catholics and Protestants theme of the doctrine of justification to negotiate. The topic had already been discussed without result in several religious talks, so that the emperor could assume that there would be no consensus this time either.

Participated in the conversation

  • as President Count Friedrich II von Fürstenberg (1496–1559) and the Bishop of Eichstätt Moritz von Hutten (1503–1552), to whom Julius von Pflug (1499–1564) later joined;
  • as Protestant auditors Dr. Lorenz Zoch (around 1477–1547), Count Wolrad II. Von Waldeck (1509–1578), Balthasar von giltingen (around 1500–1563), Georg Volkamer (1497–1554) from Nuremberg;
  • as Catholic auditors the royal councilors Vice Chancellor Georg von Loxau (Loxanus, Logschau, Lokschany, Czech Jiří z Lokšan) (1491–1551) from Bohemia, Landvogt and Reichspfennigmeister Georg von Ilsung zu Trutzburg (1510–1580) from Augsburg, Canon and Federal Judge Dr . Kaspar von Kaltenthal († 1552) from Augsburg, later Dr. Bartholomaeus Latomus (1485-1570);
  • as Protestant colloquents Martin Bucer (1491–1551), Georg Major (1502–1574), Erhard Schnepf (1495–1558), Johannes Brenz (1499–1570);
  • as Catholic colloquents Pedro de Malvenda († after 1551/52), Eberhard Billick (1499–1557), Johannes Hoffmeister (1509 / 10–1547), Johannes Cochläus (1479–1552);
  • as Protestant adjuncts Johannes Pistorius (1504–1583), Martin Frecht (1494–1556), later Veit Dietrich (1506–1549)
  • and as Catholic adjuncts Ambrosius Pelargus (around 1493 / 94–1561) and Nikolaus Blanckaert (Alexander Candidus) († 1555).

On February 18, 1546, Martin Luther died during the religious conversation, so that the Protestants lacked their theological leader. As expected, the conversation turned out to be unsuccessful, as it was impossible to agree on either the actual subject of the dispute or the procedural issues. Charles V, whose position of power in the empire had improved significantly through the peace of Crépy with France and a provisional armistice in the war against the Turks , was already secretly preparing the Schmalkaldic War by forcibly suppressing the Reformation in the empire.

literature

  • Wolf Dieter Hauschild : Textbook of church and dogma history . Volume 2: Reformation and Modern Times . 3rd edition Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 2005, ISBN 3-579-00094-2 , p. 149.
  • Otto Scheib: The Inner Christian Religious Discussions in the Occident. Regional distribution, institutional structure, theological topics, ecclesiastical function. With special consideration of the denominational age (1517 - 1689) . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06133-9 , ( Wolfenbütteler Forschungen Vol. 122), p. 196 f.
  • Lothar Vogel: The second Regensburg religious talk of 1546. Politics and theology between pressure of consensus and self-assertion . Gütersloh 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Friedrich Roth: The official report of those ordered by the Evangelicals for the Regensburg Conversation to their princes and superiors . January 27 to March 10, 1546 . In: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 5 (1907/8), pp. 1–30 and 375–397; P. 6f. Note 2.