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.If the theology faculty at Jenaswallows hard and accepts an exemption in this county, they know that similar requests will be coming infrom every other little city, county, and dukedom in Thuringia.What's more." Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlMike groaned."There can't be more.""Yes, there can be more.There is more.Point Four.Every Lutheran ruler in the CPE is sending a'personal observer.' Which means that they're sending their chancellors.Gustavus Adolphus is sending a'personal observer,' for Chrissakes! He's sending Margrave George of Baden-Durlach, and even if theman is old and getting very, very, tired, he's still been one of the most consistent defenders of theProtestant cause from the very beginning of this war.Don't count him out just because he lost a battle in1622.He's never given up and he's taken exile rather than compromise with the Imperials."Ed paused, then started again."Listen, Mike.This colloquy is abig deal.Colloquies are academicdebates, in a way, but they're academic debates on steroids.They're academic debates that affect thereal world.If this war wasn't on, they wouldn't be sending 'personal observers.' They would be comingthemselves: John George of Saxony, Wilhelm of Hessen-Kassel even though he's a Calvinisthimself George of Hessen-Darmstadt, the Anhalt mini-princes, all of the Saxe-Whatever dukes.Reuss.Probably Brandenburg, even though the elector himself has turned Calvinist like Hessen-Kassel, becausehe's taken the unusual measure of not imposing his faith on anyone but the court personnel.Most of hissubjects are Lutheran.Maybe even Prussia.The Prussian duke will be sending an observer if he hassomeone suitable on retainer who can get here in time.Count Anton Guenther of Oldenburgis coming inperson, but there has to be something else behind that.If it weren't for the war, Gustavus Adolphushimself might have come.When the Reformation got started, the Holy Roman Emperor sat in on some ofthe religious debates."Mike looked sour."It didn't do the Holy Roman Emperor a lot of good, either.They've been havingreligious wars ever since."Ed sighed."Sometimes, a smaller scale can be more effective.The theologians will debate and discuss.The 'personal observers' will listen and report back.And, Point Five.At some point, while the publicdebate goes on and on, the 'personal observers' will get together and pool the collective wisdom of the'patrons' of German Lutheranism about the way to go.If the 'way to go' turns out to be maintainingorthodox exclusionism, the different Lutheran parties will be back at each other's throats and the CPEwill fall apart.If it turns out to be enforced mutual coexistence, no matter how much the theologiansargue, we've maybe got the lever in place with which we can move the rest of Germany when it comes toreligious tolerance.Capisce?""So the Lutheran princes will tell the Lutheran churches what to do." Mike pulled a sour face.He knewthat he would have to live with the "established church" phenomenon, but he didn't have to like it."For the time being." Ed leaned back, touching his fingertips to one another in a reflective manner."Therereally have been quite a lot of changes in the past century.Lay patrons still appoint ministers to theLutheran churches that's true enough.Connections still help in getting an appointment that's true, too.But they can't appoint just any ne'er-do-well cousin who needs a sinecure.Not anymore.They pick off alist of church-approved candidates who've finished a theological course, sometimes at a university andsometimes at a seminary, and who have been examined and approved by their own church board for theprincipality the consistory, it's called, mainly, or sometimes the general synod.There's no rule aboutwhat it's called.It works pretty much the same in the Calvinist principalities.Actually, a lot of it hasrubbed off on us Catholics, as well.Compared to the middle ages, one thing that Europe has now is aclergy that's a lot more literate, a lot more educated, and a lot more committed to the job."Ed grinned."Of course, all of those things mean that as a general rule they spend a lot more time readingand arguing about fine theological points than back in the days when quite a few rural priests could barely Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlstumble their way through the liturgy.Not to mention that the fashion for long sermons means that theparishioners hear a lot more about points of theological controversy, too.A fair number of homilies seemto encapsulate the major points that the local pastor intends to make in his next letter to a neighboringminister with whom he disagrees about the nature of the Real Presence or the significance of Christ'sDescent into Hell."Mike's eyebrows were still raised high.Ed persisted."Shall I go over it again? We can't just do things according to our own priorities.We haveto factor in the priorities of our allies.Mike, we're living on their street.They're our neighbors.Theycareabout this.They really, really, do.Therefore,we care about this.Whether you want us to or not.And wewill send a delegate of equal status to the chancellors of all those allied territories.That's me.""So everything else gets dropped for a month?""No.I'll just make Arnold Bellamy 'acting.' He's perfectly capable of keeping everything else on track.IfI die of the plague or get thrown off a damned horse and break my neck, he will be doing the job.That'swhy there's a Deputy Secretary of State."* * *Mike frowned a little, thinking that almost a year ago, when Grantville's delegates first met with GustavusAdolphus, Ed hadn't been anything like this assertive.He had stood there looking verybehind-the-scenes, very advice-but-not-policy, very subordinate-in-a-clear-hierarchy-of-authority.He'dhad a lot of on-the-job experience as Secretary of State since then, of course, but still, how had hechanged so much?Then Mike reconsidered, and decided that it was last April that was the aberration [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.If the theology faculty at Jenaswallows hard and accepts an exemption in this county, they know that similar requests will be coming infrom every other little city, county, and dukedom in Thuringia.What's more." Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlMike groaned."There can't be more.""Yes, there can be more.There is more.Point Four.Every Lutheran ruler in the CPE is sending a'personal observer.' Which means that they're sending their chancellors.Gustavus Adolphus is sending a'personal observer,' for Chrissakes! He's sending Margrave George of Baden-Durlach, and even if theman is old and getting very, very, tired, he's still been one of the most consistent defenders of theProtestant cause from the very beginning of this war.Don't count him out just because he lost a battle in1622.He's never given up and he's taken exile rather than compromise with the Imperials."Ed paused, then started again."Listen, Mike.This colloquy is abig deal.Colloquies are academicdebates, in a way, but they're academic debates on steroids.They're academic debates that affect thereal world.If this war wasn't on, they wouldn't be sending 'personal observers.' They would be comingthemselves: John George of Saxony, Wilhelm of Hessen-Kassel even though he's a Calvinisthimself George of Hessen-Darmstadt, the Anhalt mini-princes, all of the Saxe-Whatever dukes.Reuss.Probably Brandenburg, even though the elector himself has turned Calvinist like Hessen-Kassel, becausehe's taken the unusual measure of not imposing his faith on anyone but the court personnel.Most of hissubjects are Lutheran.Maybe even Prussia.The Prussian duke will be sending an observer if he hassomeone suitable on retainer who can get here in time.Count Anton Guenther of Oldenburgis coming inperson, but there has to be something else behind that.If it weren't for the war, Gustavus Adolphushimself might have come.When the Reformation got started, the Holy Roman Emperor sat in on some ofthe religious debates."Mike looked sour."It didn't do the Holy Roman Emperor a lot of good, either.They've been havingreligious wars ever since."Ed sighed."Sometimes, a smaller scale can be more effective.The theologians will debate and discuss.The 'personal observers' will listen and report back.And, Point Five.At some point, while the publicdebate goes on and on, the 'personal observers' will get together and pool the collective wisdom of the'patrons' of German Lutheranism about the way to go.If the 'way to go' turns out to be maintainingorthodox exclusionism, the different Lutheran parties will be back at each other's throats and the CPEwill fall apart.If it turns out to be enforced mutual coexistence, no matter how much the theologiansargue, we've maybe got the lever in place with which we can move the rest of Germany when it comes toreligious tolerance.Capisce?""So the Lutheran princes will tell the Lutheran churches what to do." Mike pulled a sour face.He knewthat he would have to live with the "established church" phenomenon, but he didn't have to like it."For the time being." Ed leaned back, touching his fingertips to one another in a reflective manner."Therereally have been quite a lot of changes in the past century.Lay patrons still appoint ministers to theLutheran churches that's true enough.Connections still help in getting an appointment that's true, too.But they can't appoint just any ne'er-do-well cousin who needs a sinecure.Not anymore.They pick off alist of church-approved candidates who've finished a theological course, sometimes at a university andsometimes at a seminary, and who have been examined and approved by their own church board for theprincipality the consistory, it's called, mainly, or sometimes the general synod.There's no rule aboutwhat it's called.It works pretty much the same in the Calvinist principalities.Actually, a lot of it hasrubbed off on us Catholics, as well.Compared to the middle ages, one thing that Europe has now is aclergy that's a lot more literate, a lot more educated, and a lot more committed to the job."Ed grinned."Of course, all of those things mean that as a general rule they spend a lot more time readingand arguing about fine theological points than back in the days when quite a few rural priests could barely Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlstumble their way through the liturgy.Not to mention that the fashion for long sermons means that theparishioners hear a lot more about points of theological controversy, too.A fair number of homilies seemto encapsulate the major points that the local pastor intends to make in his next letter to a neighboringminister with whom he disagrees about the nature of the Real Presence or the significance of Christ'sDescent into Hell."Mike's eyebrows were still raised high.Ed persisted."Shall I go over it again? We can't just do things according to our own priorities.We haveto factor in the priorities of our allies.Mike, we're living on their street.They're our neighbors.Theycareabout this.They really, really, do.Therefore,we care about this.Whether you want us to or not.And wewill send a delegate of equal status to the chancellors of all those allied territories.That's me.""So everything else gets dropped for a month?""No.I'll just make Arnold Bellamy 'acting.' He's perfectly capable of keeping everything else on track.IfI die of the plague or get thrown off a damned horse and break my neck, he will be doing the job.That'swhy there's a Deputy Secretary of State."* * *Mike frowned a little, thinking that almost a year ago, when Grantville's delegates first met with GustavusAdolphus, Ed hadn't been anything like this assertive.He had stood there looking verybehind-the-scenes, very advice-but-not-policy, very subordinate-in-a-clear-hierarchy-of-authority.He'dhad a lot of on-the-job experience as Secretary of State since then, of course, but still, how had hechanged so much?Then Mike reconsidered, and decided that it was last April that was the aberration [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]