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29 novembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.kzsn4n
- isbn: 9781783740529
- eisbn: 9782821876231
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John McKeown, « 3. Martin Luther: Forerunner of Natalism? », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.kzsn4n
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Martin Luther is the most important figure in the 16th century change in attitudes toward marriage and childbearing in western Christianity. Although he had little to say about population size, he discussed human fertility more extensively than any other early Protestant leader. Luther paved the way for modern natalism through his rhetorical exaltation of the biological family. Before him the primary models of ideal Christian leadership had been celibate Jesus with his twelve disciples, or ce...