by Johann Spangenberg ; translated, edited, and introduced by Robert Kolb.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Milwaukee, Wis. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Marquette University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (149 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650), volume 11. Theology & piety series ;
Volume Designation
v. 4
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Short title page; title page; copyright page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Table of Abbreviations; Introduction; Bibliography; A Booklet of Comfort for the Sick, and On the Christian Knight; The Booklet of Comfort for the Sick; On the Christian Knight; Index of Biblical Citations; Index of Names & Places; Index of Subjects
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Confronting death--as God's judgment on sin and as God's doorway to eternal life--and struggling as a ""Christian Knight"" against the devil, the world, and human desires: these two topics gave Johann Spangenberg, a close friend and devoted adherent of Martin Luther, the basis for one of the most popular pieces of devotional literature in the early years of the German Reformation. In this pamphlet published in the early 1540s, readers encounter an instrument designed to cultivate the piety of the Wittenberg Reformation among the common people, a piety that prepared for death (and thus for dail.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Booklet of comfort for the sick.
International Standard Book Number
0874627109
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
New Trost Buchlin fur die Krancken.
Language (when part of a heading)
English & German
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Booklet of comfort for the sick ; On the Christian knight
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Conduct of life, Early works to 1800.
Consolation, Early works to 1800.
Conduct of life.
Consolation.
RELIGION-- Christian Life-- Death, Grief, Bereavement.