RT Book
T1 Reforming Priesthood in Reformation Zurich: Heinrich Bullinger’s End-Times Agenda
T2 Reformed Historical Theology
A1 Wood, Jon D.
A2 Dingel, Irene 1956-
A2 Selderhuis, Herman J.
A2 Campi, Emidio
A2 McKee, Elsie Anne
A2 Muller, Richard A.
A2 Saarinen, Risto
A2 Trueman, Carl
LA English
PP Göttingen
PB Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
YR 2018
ED 1. 1. Auflage 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1040619177
AB Angaben zur beteiligten Person Wood: Dr. Jon Wood is assistant professor at the Religion Department of the George Washington University.
AB Angaben zur beteiligten Person Selderhuis: Dr. theol. Herman J. Selderhuis ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Theologischen Universität Apeldoorn, Direktor von Refo500, Wissenschaftlicher Kurator der Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek sowie Präsident des Internationalen Calvinkongresses.
AB Angaben zur beteiligten Person Dingel: Prof. Dr. phil. theol. habil. Irene Dingel ist Direktorin des Leibniz-Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Abteilung für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte, Mainz.
AB The dramatic task of re-imagining clerical identity proved crucial to the Renaissance and Reformation. Jon Wood brings new light to ways in which that discussion animated reconfigurations of church, state, and early modern populace. End-Times considerations of Christian religion had played a part in upheavals throughout the medieval period, but the Reformation era mobilized that tradition with some new possibilities for understanding institutional leadership. Perceiving dangers of an overweening institution on the one hand and anarchic “priesthood of all believers” on the other hand, early Protestants defended legitimacy of ordained ministry in careful coordination with the state. The early Reformation in Zurich emphatically disestablished traditional priesthood in favour of a state-supported “prophethood” of exegetical-linguistic expertise. The author shows that Heinrich Bullinger’s End-Times worldview led him to reclaim for Protestant Zurich a notion of specifically clerical “priesthood,” albeit neither in terms of statist bureaucracy nor in terms of the traditional sacramental character that his precursor (Huldrych Zwingli) had dismantled. Clerical priesthood was an extraordinarily fraught subject in the sixteenth century, especially in the Swiss Confederation. Heinrich Bullinger’s private manuscripts helpfully supplement his more circumscribed published works on this subject. The argument about reclaiming a modified institutional priesthood of Protestantism also prompts re-assessment of broader Reformation history in areas of church-state coordination and in major theological concepts of “covenant” and “justification” that defined religious/confessional distinctions of that era.
SN 9783525570920
K1 Schweiz /Frühe Neuzeit
K1 16. Jahrhundert
K1 Bullinger,Heinrich
DO 10.13109/9783666570926