Presenter Status
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Bucharest University
Presentation Type
Oral presentation
Session
History and Music
Location
Buller Hall Room 108
Start Date
6-5-2016 2:00 PM
End Date
6-5-2016 2:20 PM
Presentation Abstract
This paper will highlight the causality between the Ottoman’s menace and the Protestant Reformation in the XVI-th century, regarding the support, the consolidation and the direct determination of the Protestant movement. The question - ,,whom did the Turks support more: the Protestants or the Catholics?" was for a long time a realm of debate for theologians and even for historians.
More than that, the paper proposes to reveal the influence of Ottoman peril on reformer perceptions (visions about Turks). In this regard, one of its goal is to explain the permanent oscillation in Luther’s vision concerning Turk’s incursion and invasion. Which reasons stand behind this shift in paradigm? Europeans’ repentance of sinful past, the imminence of gathering up of the rival forces such as: Western Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, France and Papacy under the same flag or Ottomans’ coming closer to the Gate of Vienna?
The article also deals with the topic of the quick transit from providence to geopolitics and the implications of this. Does the providence include/allow human affairs - geopolitics, that transcends?
The paper utilizes as primary resources - Luther, Calvin, Erasmus and Machiavelli’s writings. The most important secondary resources are the following studies: Andrei Pippidi - ,,Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe’’, Stephen Fischer-Galați - ,,Ottoman Imperialism and German Protestantism’’, Halil Inalcik - ,,Imperiul Otoman’’ și Mark Greengrass - ,,Christendom Destroyed. Europe 1517-1648’’ and Daniel Goffman - ,,The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe’’.
Keywords: Protestant Reformation, Ottoman’s menace, geopolitics, visions of the Ottoman World, Catholic Church.
Biographical Sketch
Daniel Nițulescu is a PhD candidate in medieval history at Bucharest University. He holds a MA in counseling from Bucharest University and a MA in religion from Andrews University. He has been a pastor at Bucharest Seventh Day Adventist Conference since 2005. He is married with Gratiela and has two sons: Enric and Matias.
The Influence of the Ottoman Threat on the Protestant Reformation (Reformers)
Buller Hall Room 108
This paper will highlight the causality between the Ottoman’s menace and the Protestant Reformation in the XVI-th century, regarding the support, the consolidation and the direct determination of the Protestant movement. The question - ,,whom did the Turks support more: the Protestants or the Catholics?" was for a long time a realm of debate for theologians and even for historians.
More than that, the paper proposes to reveal the influence of Ottoman peril on reformer perceptions (visions about Turks). In this regard, one of its goal is to explain the permanent oscillation in Luther’s vision concerning Turk’s incursion and invasion. Which reasons stand behind this shift in paradigm? Europeans’ repentance of sinful past, the imminence of gathering up of the rival forces such as: Western Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, France and Papacy under the same flag or Ottomans’ coming closer to the Gate of Vienna?
The article also deals with the topic of the quick transit from providence to geopolitics and the implications of this. Does the providence include/allow human affairs - geopolitics, that transcends?
The paper utilizes as primary resources - Luther, Calvin, Erasmus and Machiavelli’s writings. The most important secondary resources are the following studies: Andrei Pippidi - ,,Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe’’, Stephen Fischer-Galați - ,,Ottoman Imperialism and German Protestantism’’, Halil Inalcik - ,,Imperiul Otoman’’ și Mark Greengrass - ,,Christendom Destroyed. Europe 1517-1648’’ and Daniel Goffman - ,,The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe’’.
Keywords: Protestant Reformation, Ottoman’s menace, geopolitics, visions of the Ottoman World, Catholic Church.