Review: Enemies of the Cross: Suffering, Truth and Mysticism in the Early Reformation by Vincent Evener
October/November 2021: The Ethics of Pan-Lutheran Dialogue (Volume 21 Issue 6)
[1] Evener’s revised University of Chicago dissertation explores relationships between selfhood, suffering, and the knowledge of truth in the early Reformation writings of Martin Luther, Andreas Karlstadt, and Thomas Muntzer. Through meticulous textual work, this account also carefully attends to ways that each author drew differently on earlier traditions of Christian mysticism. Evener notes that […]