Consciences and the reformation : scruples over oaths and confessions in the era of Calvin and his contemporaries /
"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...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in historical theology.
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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.