Debating the Sacraments
Print and Authority in the Early Reformation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 January 2019
- ISBN 9780190921187
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages544 pages
- Size 236x163x38 mm
- Weight 953 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
Amy Nelson Burnett's Debating the Sacraments brings together the foundational disputes regarding the sacraments that laid the groundwork for the development of two Protestant traditions--Lutheran and Reformed--along with the critical question of authority, particularly biblical authority. She then places these disputes in the context of early print culture, showing how the ideas of the major reformers was filtered through the pamphlets of lesser known figures and translators, editors, and printers.
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In Debating the Sacraments, Amy Nelson Burnett brings together the foundational disputes regarding the baptism and the Lord's Supper that laid the groundwork for the development of two Protestant traditions-Lutheran and Reformed-as well as of dissenting Anabaptist movements. Burnett places these disputes in the context of early print culture, tracing their development in a range of publications and their impact on the wider public. Burnett examines not only the writings of the major reformers, but also the reception of their ideas in the pamphlets of lesser known figures, as well as the role of translators, editors, and printers in exacerbating the conflict among both literate and illiterate audiences.
Following the chronological unfolding of the debates, Burnett observes how specific arguments were formed in the crucible of written critique and pierces several myths that have governed our understanding of the sacramental controversies. She traces the influence of Erasmus on Luther's followers outside of Wittenberg and highlights the critical question of authority, particularly in interpreting the Bible. Erasmus and Luther disagreed not only about the relationship between the material world and spiritual reality but also on biblical hermeneutics and scriptural exegesis. Their disagreements underlay the public debates over baptism and the Lord's Supper that broke out in 1525 and divided the evangelical movement. Erasmus's position would be reflected not only in the views of Huldrych Zwingli and others who shared his orientation toward the sacraments but also in the developing theologies of the Anabaptist movement of the 1520s.
The neglected period of 1525-1529 emerges as a crucial phase of the early Reformation, when evangelical theologies were still developing, and which paved the way for the codification of theological differences in church ordinances, catechisms, and confessions of subsequent decades.
This book is an impressive accomplishment and seems destined to become the new standard reference for scholars looking to engage debates over the sacraments in the early Reformation. Burnett's profound facility with the primary sources is richly on display throughout the monograph. Her sophisticated analysis yields fresh insights about the subject matter which will inform future studies for many years to come ... Debating the Sacraments belongs on the shelf of every student of the Reformation, and every theologian interested in sacramental theology and the nature of ecclesial authority.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Print and the Reformation Crisis of Authority
Part I: Overview, Background, and Beginnings
Chapter Two: Contours of the Printed Debate
Chapter Three: Heresy and Hermeneutics: The Background to the Controversy
Chapter Four: Karlstadt's Challenge to Luther
Chapter Five: The Early Debate in Switzerland
Part II: Exchanges, 1526-1529
Chapter Six: Martin Bucer and Bugenhagen's Psalms Commentary
Chapter Seven: Oecolampadius against the Wittenbergers
Chapter Eight: Undermining Oecolampadius: the Debate with Pirckheimer
Chapter Nine: The Contributions of Zurich and Strasbourg
Chapter Ten: Print, Polemics, and Popular Response in South Germany
Chapter Eleven: The Debate Matures, 1527-1529
Part III: Gradual Developments
Chapter Twelve: The Lord's Supper in Catechetical Literature
Chapter Thirteen: Sacramentarian Diversity
Chapter Fourteen: Reconstituting Authority
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
