The Christian Hope in the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

Do Reformacije u šesnaestom stoljeću došlo je teološki i vjerski u nemirnom ozračju posljednjih dana. Protestantski reformatori vidjeli su u događajima svog vremena – bilo na vjerskom, političkom ili društvenom području – znakove neposrednog drugog Kristovog dolaska. Snažnom eshatološkom svijesti vidjeli su u povijesnom procesu svog vremena nemire kao obilježja velikog dana suda, kraja svijeta i početka ostvarenja svega prorečenog. Sve više i više postajemo svjesni koliko su eshatološke pretpostavke prožimale intelektualni i vjerski život u Europi u šesnaestom stoljeću i koliko su ljudi svoje doba smatrali apokaliptičkom erom.The Reformation of the sixteenth century took place, theologically and religiously, in the charged atmosphere of the latter days. The Protestant Reformers acknowledged in the events of the time—whether religious, political, or social in nature—the signs of the imminence of the second advent of Christ. In an intense eschatological consciousness they saw in the historical process of the time the convulsion signifying the great day of judgment, the end of the world, and the beginning of the consummation of all things. It is more and more realized how widely eschatological preconception pervaded European intellectual and religious life in the sixteenth century, and how much people considered their own age an apocalyptic era