Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate : a Renaissance physician in the Second Reformation /
This study is the first monograph to attempt a synthetic treatment of the career of Thomas Erastus (1524-1583). Erastus was a central player in the conversion of the Electoral Palatinate to Reformed Christianity in the early 1560s and a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism. In the church discipline...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Brill's series in church history ;
d. 48. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This study is the first monograph to attempt a synthetic treatment of the career of Thomas Erastus (1524-1583). Erastus was a central player in the conversion of the Electoral Palatinate to Reformed Christianity in the early 1560s and a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism. In the church discipline controversy of the 1560s and 1570s, Erastus opposed the Calvinist effort to institute a consistory of elders with independent authority over excommunication. Erastus's defeat in this controversy, and the ensuing Antitrinitarian affair, proved the watershed of his career. He turned to the refutation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 525 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-504) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004215061 9004215069 1283160846 9781283160841 |