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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
Protestant/Lutheran community among Carinthian Slovenes and the only
Protestant/Lutheran community in Austria whose origin dates back to Primož
Trubar and the 16th-century Slovene Reformation. Secret Protestantism (kryp
toprotestantism) persisted among the Slovene-speaking inhabitants of this
village right up to the Edict of Tolerance granted by Joseph II; it relied on the
secret preservation and copying of Slovene Protestant literature of the 16th cen-
tury. When legal activity was renewed after 1781, educated German Protestant
pastors preached in German and began to use the new, contemporary German
Protestant books which were available, whereas Protestant books in Slovene no
longer existed. Thus Protestantism was preserved despite the predominantly Ro-
man Catholic German and Slovene environment, but the connection between the
Slovene literary tradition and Slovene identity was broken. The exceptionally in-
teresting example of Zagoriče shows the power of the literary word, which proved
decisive for the beginnings as well as the preservation and eventual decline of the
Slovene Protestant community. This paper can also be viewed as a contribution
to the honouring of Primož Trubar.
UDC 850.09:821.131.1
929Valdés J.
Tomaž Jurca
The treatise Il Beneficio di Cristo as a central work of the Italian
Reformation
The treatise Il Trattato utilissimo del beneficio di Giesů Cristo crocifisso verso i cris-
tiani was printed for the first time in 1543 by Bernardo de’ Bindoni in Venice. As
was discovered later, its authors were Benedetto da Mantova and Marca ntonio
Flaminio. The latter was a disciple of Juan de Valdés, one of the most important
personalities of the Italian Reformation. Although it is true that the circle of
Valdés, which to some degree shaped the contents of Beneficio, defended the
belief in justification by faith alone, as Luther did, the text could not be classi-
fied within the framework of the Lutheran, Calvinist or any other confession. It
does not contain any criticism of Rome, a characteristic of northern Reformers,
while its ideas, based upon the first centuries of Christian thought, reveal the
original and even unique nature of the treatise. The Inquisition and proximity
to Rome marked the decline of similar ideas in Italy in the second half of the
16th century, consequently later editions of Beneficio were printed mainly in the
northern countries.
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Protestant/Lutheran community among Carinthian Slovenes and the only
Protestant/Lutheran community in Austria whose origin dates back to Primož
Trubar and the 16th-century Slovene Reformation. Secret Protestantism (kryp
toprotestantism) persisted among the Slovene-speaking inhabitants of this
village right up to the Edict of Tolerance granted by Joseph II; it relied on the
secret preservation and copying of Slovene Protestant literature of the 16th cen-
tury. When legal activity was renewed after 1781, educated German Protestant
pastors preached in German and began to use the new, contemporary German
Protestant books which were available, whereas Protestant books in Slovene no
longer existed. Thus Protestantism was preserved despite the predominantly Ro-
man Catholic German and Slovene environment, but the connection between the
Slovene literary tradition and Slovene identity was broken. The exceptionally in-
teresting example of Zagoriče shows the power of the literary word, which proved
decisive for the beginnings as well as the preservation and eventual decline of the
Slovene Protestant community. This paper can also be viewed as a contribution
to the honouring of Primož Trubar.
UDC 850.09:821.131.1
929Valdés J.
Tomaž Jurca
The treatise Il Beneficio di Cristo as a central work of the Italian
Reformation
The treatise Il Trattato utilissimo del beneficio di Giesů Cristo crocifisso verso i cris-
tiani was printed for the first time in 1543 by Bernardo de’ Bindoni in Venice. As
was discovered later, its authors were Benedetto da Mantova and Marca ntonio
Flaminio. The latter was a disciple of Juan de Valdés, one of the most important
personalities of the Italian Reformation. Although it is true that the circle of
Valdés, which to some degree shaped the contents of Beneficio, defended the
belief in justification by faith alone, as Luther did, the text could not be classi-
fied within the framework of the Lutheran, Calvinist or any other confession. It
does not contain any criticism of Rome, a characteristic of northern Reformers,
while its ideas, based upon the first centuries of Christian thought, reveal the
original and even unique nature of the treatise. The Inquisition and proximity
to Rome marked the decline of similar ideas in Italy in the second half of the
16th century, consequently later editions of Beneficio were printed mainly in the
northern countries.
272
