Spowiedź w czasach Reformacji

• Authors: Matwiejczuk Paweł

Title variants

EN

Confession in the times of Reformation

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Confession, understood as confession and forgiveness of sins, is one of the most interesting phenomena of the church. The article presents the results of research concerning the confession at the time of the Reformation, theology of the Lutheran symbolical books in particular. The dynamics of Luther’s and Melanchthon’s theological reflection on the role, form and the person of the administrator of confession was shown. Confession’s functions as a necessary condition for preparing the believers for participation in the Lord’s Supper and a significant factor in pastoral work were also brought into focus. The author reminds that the Reformation restored the rite of general confession to the church, without resigning from the individual confession, the course of which was reconstructed based on the “Small Catechism” and Lutheran iconography from the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century.

Keywords

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Reformation; confession; sacraments; absolution; Lutheran symbolical books

• Publisher: Parafia Ewangelicko-Augsburska w Gdańsku z siedzibą w Sopocie
• Journal: Gdański Rocznik Ewangelicki
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 7
• Pages: 207-223

Contributors

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Matwiejczuk Paweł

• ur. 1976 r., luteranin, historyk, muzealnik i doktor teologii. Absolwent Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Chrześcijańskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Warszawie. Pracuje w Państwowym Muzeum Etnograficznym w Warszawie. Zainteresowania naukowe: historia Kościoła powszechnego, korespondencja Filipa Melanchtona z władcami szesnastowiecznej Europy, biblijne i legendarne korzenie obrzędowości wolnomularskiej.