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Auteur

Volker Leppin is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. He is author of twenty books in the field of medieval and Reformation studies.

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Leppin illuminates how Luther's emerging theology drew upon deep wells of personal mystical experience and the guidance of late-medieval mystics such as fourteenth-century priest and theologian John Tauler and others who influenced the reformer's views on a host of theological subjects, including such cornerstones as the Passion and the Eucharist.