Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: doctrinal controversy as a window onto lay religiosity
  • A portrait of Mansfeld in the sixteenth century
  • Competing views of original sin and associated arguments and meanings
  • The pastors and their parishioners
  • The counts and the controversy
  • The "heretics" of Mansfeld
  • Extra-doctrinal forces affecting the laity
  • Lay understandings of original sin and Lutheran theology
  • Conclusion.