Worms Religious Discussion (1557)

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At the Worms Religious Discussion of 1557, Protestant and Catholic theologians tried unsuccessfully to reach a consensus on central questions of theological doctrine.

After the division of the empire into a Catholic and a Protestant part had been established in the Augsburg Religious Peace of 1555 , King Ferdinand I still pursued the goal of finding a consensus between Catholic and Protestant theologians. At the Regensburg Reichstag of 1556/7, he again took the initiative for a new religious discussion, which took place in Worms in autumn 1557 . The conversation was led by the Catholic Bishop of Naumburg (Saale) Julius von Pflug . The Protestant theologians present were Philipp Melanchthon , Johannes Brenz , Erhard Schnepf and Matthias Flacius . On the Catholic side, Johannes Gropper , Michael Helding , Petrus Canisius , the imperial court preacher and advisor Matthias von Sittard , as well as the cathedral scholasters Daniel Mauch and Georg Witzel were present. The internal Protestant divergences between Gnesiolutherans and Philippists prevented the Protestants from appearing together, so that the Catholic theologians were able to question the Confessio Augustana as a clear doctrinal basis in the discussion about original sin and justification .

After the failure of the Worms Religious Discussion, religious discussions between Protestants and Catholics did not take place again until the 17th century .

literature

  • Wolf Dieter Hauschild : Textbook of church and dogma history . Vol. 2, Reformation and Modern Times. 3rd edition Gütersloh 2005, ISBN 3-579-00094-2 , p. 158.
  • Benno von Bundschuh: The Worms Religious Discussion of 1557 with special consideration of the imperial religious policy. Reformation history studies and texts 124, Verlag Aschendorff, Münster 1988, ISBN 978-3-402-03772-0 .
  • Daniel Gaschick: More than a marginal phenomenon ! Georg Cassander and the Worms Religious Discussion of 1557 . In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History 70 (2018), pp. 189–209.
  • Otto Scheib: The Inner Christian Religious Discussions in the Occident . Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06133-9 , pp. 224-226.
  • Björn Slenczka: The Worms Schism of the Augsburg denominational relatives from 1557. Tübingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-16-151065-6 .

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