Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate

A Renaissance Physician in the Second Reformation
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18792-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 945 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Church History

This study is the first monograph to attempt a synthetic treatment of the career of Thomas Erastus (1524-1583). Erastus was a central player in the conversion of the Electoral Palatinate to Reformed Christianity in the early 1560s and a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism. In the church discipline controversy of the 1560s and 1570s, Erastus opposed the Calvinist effort to institute a consistory of elders with independent authority over excommunication. Erastus’s defeat in this controversy, and the ensuing Antitrinitarian affair, proved the watershed of his career. He turned to the refutation of Paracelsus and a debate with Johann Weyer on the punishment of witches. The epilogue tracks Erastus’s later career and the reception of his works into the seventeenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gunnoe, Charles

Fachgebiete

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

Über Autor(innen)

Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr., Ph.D. (1998) in History, University of Virginia, is Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Aquinas College. His publications include Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe (2002), co-edited with Gerhild Scholz Williams.