Emancipating Calvin

Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36051-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 76, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 629 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Church History

The eleven essays in Emancipating Calvin: Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities demonstrate the vitality and variety of early modern Francophone Reformed communities by examining the ways that local contexts shaped the reception and implementation of reforming ideas emanating especially from John Calvin and the Reformed church of Geneva. The articles address three main themes important for understanding the development of Reformed communities: the roles of consistories in Reformed churches and communities, the development of various Reformed cultures, and the ways in which ritual and worship embodied the theology and cultural foundations of Francophone Reformed churches. This Festschrift honors the pioneering work of Raymond Mentzer and reflects his influence in modern Francophone Reformed studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Boer, Erik A. de

Holder, R. Ward

Spierling, Karen E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Reformierte Kirchen, Calvinisten, presbyterianische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Homage: [e-mail]
Bernard Roussel
Translated by Jonathan Reid
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Map of Consistory Locations
Introduction: Emancipating Calvin
Karen E. Spierling

Part 1: Consistories

1 Rowdy Refugees and Mischievous Martyrs in Calvin’s Geneva
Jeffrey R. Watt

2 A “Catholic” Consistory? The Bipartisan Consistorial Court of Echallens in the Vaud (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
Christian Grosse
Translated by Christine Rhone

3 The Dancing Calvinists of Montauban: Testing the Boundaries of a Reformed Community in the 1590s in France
Graeme Murdock

4 On Consistorial Diversity
Philippe Chareyre
Translated by Karin Maag

Part 2: Huguenot Culture and History

5 A Debated Office: Deacons in the Huguenot Church, 1560–1660
Karin Maag

6 Lay Leadership in the Reformed Communities during the Huguenot Revolution, 1559–1563
Jonathan A. Reid

7 The Last Wishes of the Orangeois
Françoise Moreil
Translated by Anne-Marie Libério

8 The Practice of Ecclesiastical Discipline in the Huguenot Refugee Church of Amsterdam, 1650–1700
Edwin Bezzina

Part 3: Ritual and Worship

9 Reading the Bible in Sixteenth-century France
Mack P. Holt

10 Domesticating God: Reformed Homes and the Relocation of Sacred Space
Ezra Plank

11 The Huguenots and Marks of Honor and Distinction in the Parish Church and Reformed Temple
Andrew Spicer
Bibliography of Raymond A. Mentzer’s Published Works to Date
Volume Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Erik A. de Boer, Ph.D. (Université de Genève 1999), is Professor for Church History at Theological University Kampen and Extraordinary Professor for Reformation History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published on the Reformation including The Genevan School of the Prophets. The congrégations of the Company of Pastors and its Influence in 16th Century Europe [Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance, vol 513] (Genève: Librairie Droz, 2012).

R. Ward Holder, Ph.D. (1998), Boston College, is Professor of Theology at Saint Anselm College. He has published on the Reformation, including John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation: Calvin’s First Commentaries (Brill, 2006), and Calvin in Context (Cambridge, 2019).

Karen E. Spierling, Ph.D (2001), University of Wisconsin-Madion, is Associate Professor of History and Director of Global Commerce at Denison University. Her publications on the Genevan Reformation include Infant Baptism: The Shaping of a Community, 1536 – 1564 (Ashgate, 2005; Westminster John Knox, 2009) and the edited volume Calvin and the Book: The Evolution of the Printed Word in Reformed Protestantism (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015).