Who was Argula von Grumbach? Only the first woman theologian of the Reformation!
I'm ending Women's History month with one of my favourite Christian women. With excerpts from a paper I wrote during my Master's. This is a free post! Enjoy!
Argula von Grumbach was a Bavarian noblewoman and prolific writer during the Reformation. As a child, her father gave her a copy of the German Bible, printed in 1483 that she studied with abandon. When she was older, she married a Catholic landowner, named Fredrich von Grumbach. Her Protestant beliefs caused some friction between Argula and her husband, which was exacerbated by the fact that her husband was removed from his position within the Catholic church because of her writings. In one of her letters, she wrote1:
“He does much to persecute Christ in me… I cannot obey him.”
What happened to get Argula so fired up?
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