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  title info:
    title: Consciences and the reformation
    sub title: scruples over oaths and confessions in the era of Calvin and his contemporaries
  title info:
    title: Scruples over oaths and confessions in the era of Calvin and his contemporaries
  name:
    name part: Scheuers, Timothy R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages).
  abstract: "We see Calvin most clearly - as a person and as a theologian - against the backdrop of his late medieval context. Older portrayals of Calvin as a father of modern doctrinal systems - popularized in early nineteenth- and twentieth-century accounts of the reformer's life and thought - have been soundly rebuffed, and for good reason. Calvin was, as a point of fact, thoroughly unaware of certain dogmatic patterns that we now recognize as being "modern." He was no more the father of modern critical exegesis than he was the original visionary of modern liberal democratic societies. That is to say, Calvin could not have considered himself a forerunner of something that lay entirely outside his historical purview. Likewise, the young Calvin was, in most respects, a man of his times. And his times were driven by the effort to promulgate and practice the authoritative teachings of the medieval Christian Church. Moreover, Calvin did not utterly disown the intellectual inheritance of his youth following his conversion to the evangelical religion in the early 1530s. Later in life, as a seasoned reformer of the church, Calvin continued to apply with great fervency many of the legal principles and theological methods he had acquired at an early age while studying in Paris, Orléans, and Bourges, albeit with an ever-critical eye toward the need for church reform"--
  table of contents: Cover -- Series -- Consciences and the Reformation -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Translation and Texts -- Introduction -- Section I: Calvin and the Reformers' Inherited Legal Tradition -- 1. Before Calvin: Oaths, Religious Coercion, and the Freedom of Conscience from the Medieval Church to the Reformation -- Section II: Answering Conscientious Objectors: Calvin and the Reformers against Radical Dissent and Religious Compromise -- 2. Conscience, Confession, and the Consolidation of Early Public Reform in Strasbourg, 1530-​1535 -- 3. "Vera pietas veram confessionem parit": Confession, Conscience, and Charity in the Anti-​Nicodemism of Calvin and the Reformers -- 4. Confession, Conscience, and Christian Freedom in the Later Anti-​Nicodemite Writings of Calvin and the Reformers, 1540-​1562 -- Section III: Oaths, Confessional Subscription, and the Binding of the Conscience in Reformation Geneva -- 5. Citizen's Oath and Confession of Faith in Reformation Geneva, 1536-​1538: Necessary, Indifferent, or a Tertium Quid? -- 6. "Make Them Afraid of Bearing False Witness": Oaths, Conscience, and Discipline in the Registers of the Genevan Consistory, 1541-​1564 -- 7. After Calvin: Oaths, Subscription, Conscience, and Compromise in the Genevan Academy, 1559-​1612 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Timothy R. Scheuers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Calvin, Jean
      name part: 1509-1564
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Calvin, John
  subject:
    topic: Conscience
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Calvinists
  subject:
    topic: Reformation
  subject:
    topic: Conscience (Morale)
    topic: Aspect religieux
    topic: Calvinistes
  subject:
    topic: Réforme (Christianisme)
  subject:
    topic: Reformation
  subject:
    topic: Protestant
  subject:
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Christian Theology
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Christian Church
  subject:
    topic: Conscience
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Calvinists
  subject:
    topic: Reformation
  subject:
    topic: Religion & beliefs
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  classification: BX9418 .S2344 2023
  classification: 284/.2
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      title: Consciences and the reformation
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      name part: Scheuers, Timothy R.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]
    identifier: (DLC) 2023004623
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230201
    record change date: 20260318165737.0
    record identifier: in00005698605
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng