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Restoring Christ's Church: John a Lasco and the Forma ac ratio (review)

The signal merit of Ocker’s study (of which only the merest flavor can be given here) is that it emphasizes the irreducible complexity of the issue within Germany (unlike Scandinavia or England) and the shifting alliances that bore upon it. That he achieves by a chronological rather than a systematic approach—the only one that can hope to reflect historical reality—but it comes at a price. Even those well versed in the politics of early sixteenth-century Germany may struggle to identify the interests and policies of, say, the imperial cities as opposed to the princes, or the arguments of the theologians over against the lawyers (perhaps because no clear lines of demarcation existed), but that does not make for easy reading. Ocker’s convoluted prose style (strewn with some bizarre lapses of English usage) certainly does not help— could not the Brill copyeditor have intervened? As a result, the book will be quarried for its wealth of information and individual insights, but it is unlikely to become a work of first resort, despite the importance of its theme.