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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455996003321

Autore

Elwood Christopher

Titolo

The Body broken [[electronic resource] ] : the Calvinist doctrine of the Eucharist and the symbolization of power in sixteenth-century France / / Christopher Elwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-280-47066-6

0-19-535292-0

0-585-21178-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in historical theology

Disciplina

234.163

234/.163/088242

Soggetti

Lord's Supper - Reformed Church - History - 16th century

Reformed Church - France - Doctrines - History - 16th century

Calvinism - France - History - 16th century

Power (Social sciences)

Power (Christian theology) - History of doctrines - 16th century

Reformation - France

Electronic books.

France Church history 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Immanent Majesty: The Eucharist and the Body of Christ in Late Medieval Society; 2 Heavenly Things in Heaven: The First Wave of French Protestant Propaganda, 1533-1535; 3 Specifying Power: Sacramental Signification in Calvin's Theology of the Eucharist; 4 Seeds of Discord: The Diffusion of the Reformed Doctrine, 1540-1560; 5 The Catholic Riposte: Defenses of the Real Presence at the Beginning of the Religious Wars; 6 The Eucharist, Reformed Social Formation, and the Ideology of Resistance; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the public religious controversies of sixteenth-century France, no subject received more attention or provoked greater passion that the



eucharist. In this study of Reformation theologies of the eucharist, Christopher Elwood contends that the doctrine for which French Protestants argued played a pivotal role in the development of Calvinist revolutionary politics. By focusing on the new understandings of signs and symbols purveyed in Protestant writing on the sacrament of the Lords Supper, Elwood shows how adherents to the Reformation movement came to interpret the nature of power and the rel