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Events

04.05.2022 - 06.05.2022

Conference "Controversia et Confessio"
Venue: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2, 55131 Mainz The research and edition project "Controversia et Confessio" has been one of the Academy's long-term projects in the humanities since 2007. It is integrated into the research of the Leibniz Institute of European History and is carried out in cooperation with the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. The project documents the fundamental discussions about the authentic preservation of Luther's legacy that broke out in the second half of the 16th century and contributed significantly to the formation of the identity of Wittenberg-style Protestantism. Sections of the conference: I: Kontroversen und »Streitkultur« II: Bekenntnisse und Bekenntnisbildung III: Die Akteure und ihre Netzwerke IV: Wirkungsgeschichtliche Perspektive Kick-off-event: open lecture (language will be German) 04 May 2021, 7 p.m. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Volker Leppin, Professor of Church History at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen "Rabies theologorum? Zur Funktion und Wirkung theologischer Kontroversen im 16. Jahrhundert"