Reforming Priesthood in Reformation Zurich

Heinrich Bullinger’s End-Times Agenda
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-525-57092-0
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 054, Part, 150 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 379 g

Reihe: Reformed Historical Theology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Jon D.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Selderhuis, Herman J.

Dingel, Irene

Campi, Emidio

McKee, Elsie Anne

Muller, Richard A.

Saarinen, Risto

Trueman, Carl R.

Fachgebiete

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

Über Autor(innen)

Wood, Jon D.
Dr. Jon Wood is assistant professor at the Religion Department of the George Washington University.

Muller, Richard A.
Richard A. Muller is P. J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology Emeritus and is Senior Fellow of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Trueman, Carl R.
Dr. Carl R. Trueman ist Professor for Biblical and Religious Studies at the Grove City College.

Dingel, Irene
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Irene Dingel war bis März 2022 Direktorin des Leibniz-Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Abteilung für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte und ist gegenwärtig Seniorforschungsprofessorin an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz und der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz.

Campi, Emidio
Dr. Emidio Campi ist emeritierter Professor für Kirchengeschichte.

Selderhuis, Herman J.
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.

McKee, Elsie Anne
Dr. Elise Anne McKee is Professor of Reformation Studies and History of Worship at the Princeton theological Seminary.

Saarinen, Risto
Dr. Risto Saarinen ist Professor für ökumenische Theologie an der Universität Helsinki.