1st Edition
Following Zwingli Applying the Past in Reformation Zurich
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more
Chapter 1 Emulating the Past and Creating the Present: Reformation and the Use of Historical and Theological Models in Zurich in the Sixteenth Century, Bruce Gordon, Luca Baschera, Christian Moser; Chapter 2 Patristics and Polemic: Josias Simler’s History of Early Church Christological Disputes, Mark Taplin; Chapter 3 Bullinger’s Model for Collective Episcopacy: Transformational Ministry in a Society Facing Final Judgment, Jon Delmas Wood; Chapter 4 Peter Martyr Vermigli’s Epistle to the Princess Elizabeth : Models of Redemptive Kingship, Torrance Kirby; Chapter 5 A Mirror of Virtue: Commentaries on the Book of Ruth in Sixteenth-century Zurich, Christian Moser; Chapter 6 Reforming a Model: Zwingli, Bullinger, and the Virgin Mary in Sixteenth-century Zurich, Rebecca A. Giselbrecht; Chapter 7 The Childhood of Christ as a Model of Christian Child Raising: Two Sermons of 1553 by Rudolf Gwalther, Kurt Jakob Rüetschi; Chapter 8 Moral Treatment of Immoral Texts from Classical Antiquity: Conrad Gessner’s Martial-Edition of 1544, Urs B. Leu; Chapter 9 Shaping Reformed Aristotelianism: Otto Werdmüller’s Evaluation of the Nicomachean Ethics in De dignitate, usu et methodo philosophiae moralis (1545), Luca Baschera; Chapter 10 ‘Praeceptor amicissimus’: Konrad Pellikan, and Models of Teacher, Student and the Ideal of Scholarship, Matthew McLean; Chapter 11 Fathers and Sons: the Exemplary Lives of Konrad Pellikan and Leo Jud in Reformation Zurich, Bruce Gordon;
Biography
Luca Baschera, Universität Zürich, Switzerland; Bruce Gordon, Yale University, USA and Christian Moser, Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
