C
Contarini
Guest
I’m attending the Sixteenth Century Studies Converence in Fort Worth, and we just had a keynote address by Carlos Eire this evening. I encourage anyone here who doesn’t know his work to acquaint themselves with it. He is a Cuban refugee who is both a well-respected Reformation scholar and the award-winning author of two volumes of memoirs. He began his lecture by describing the destruction of sacred images, giving the impression that he was talking about the Reformation (though I figured out what he was doing fairly soon), and then informing us that he was in fact describing something he had witnessed as a kid in Cuba.
I have qualms about the way his anti-Marxism ironically makes him agree with Marxists in interpreting the Reformation as a revolution similar to the one he experienced in Cuba. But he’s definitely onto something, and I found his fusion of the personal and the scholarly compelling. It was inspiring to me, since my own approach to the Reformation is deeply personal and I often find it hard to get that into my scholarship (which is one reason I hang out here so much!).
I’ve read his *War against the Idols, *but now I want to go out and read all his other books!
Edwin
I have qualms about the way his anti-Marxism ironically makes him agree with Marxists in interpreting the Reformation as a revolution similar to the one he experienced in Cuba. But he’s definitely onto something, and I found his fusion of the personal and the scholarly compelling. It was inspiring to me, since my own approach to the Reformation is deeply personal and I often find it hard to get that into my scholarship (which is one reason I hang out here so much!).
I’ve read his *War against the Idols, *but now I want to go out and read all his other books!
Edwin