Ecumenism in the Age of the Reformation

This work on the colloquy presents the dialectical complexities of the sixteenth-century theology--a theology that had emerged with binding strands of religious idealism and political interest. Theology was, indeed, the medium of discourse, but it was not an end in itself. Rather, it was a means to a higher goal:

This study describes a theological debate which took place in 1586 between the Lutheran Jacob Andreae and the Calvinist Theodore Beza. The author reveals that the true motive of the conference was to unite Protestant forces in Europe against Rome and its papal allies.

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith

By focusing on the new understandings of signs and symbols purveyed in Protestant writing on the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Elwood shows how adherants to the Reformation movement came to interpret the nature of power and the relation between society and the sacred in ways that departed radically from

Aus Anlass des 500. Geburtstages von Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575) fand im Jahre 2004 ein internationaler wissenschaftlicher Kongress in Zurich statt, organisiert durch das Institut fur Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte der Universitat Zurich. Die Beitrage von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus zahlreichen Landern liegen nun in diesem Sammelband vor. Sie lassen in ihrer thematischen