Following Zwingli - Couverture souple

Baschera, Luca; Gordon, Bruce

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1032922257 ISBN 13 : 9781032922256

Editeur : Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Following Zwingli explores history, scholarship, and memory in Reformation Zurich. The humanist culture of this city was shaped by a remarkable sodality of scholars, many of whom had been associated with Erasmus. In creating a new Christian order, Zwingli and his colleagues sought biblical, historical, literary, and political models to shape and defend their radical reforms. After Zwingli's sudden death, the next generation was committed to the institutional and intellectual establishment of the Reformation through ongoing dialogue with the past. The essays of this volume examine the immediacy of antiquity, early Christianity, and the Middle Ages for the Zurich reformers. Their reading and appropriation of history was no mere rhetorical exercise or polemical defence. The Bible, theology, church institutions, pedagogy, and humanist scholarship were the lifeblood of the Reformation. But their appropriation depended on the interplay of past ideals with the pressing demands of a sixteenth-century reform movement troubled by internal dissention and constantly under attack. This book focuses on Zwingli's successors and on their interpretations of the recent and distant past: the choices they made, and why. How those pasts spoke to the present and how they were heard tell us a great deal not only about the distinctive nature of Zurich and Zwinglianism, but also about locality, history, and religious change in the European Reformation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Luca Baschera, Universität ZÃ1/4rich, Switzerland; Bruce Gordon, Yale University, USA and Christian Moser, Universität ZÃ1/4rich, Switzerland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032922257
• ISBN 13: 9781032922256
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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