INDIFERENCIA, EXILIO Y RESISTENCIA. EL INTERIM DE AUSBURGO COMO PRIMERA CRISIS GLOBAL DEL PROTESTANTISMO

Abstract

This article discusses the context, aspects, and consequences of the imperial legislation that Charles V \nimposed upon the Protestant territories after defeating the Schmalcaldic League. I discuss this period \nas the first “global crisis” of Protestantism, since for the first time Lutherans had to act under \nconditions that had been more common for Calvinist believers: the absence of support from significant \npolitical players. I further explore the way this impacted discussion of things indifferent, the effect \nthat this crisis on the continent had on the Reformation in England, and the way that theories of \nresistance were developed across confessional lines