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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794515503321

Autore

Braghi Gianmarco

Titolo

The Emergence of Pastoral Authority in the French Reformed Church (C. 1555-C. 1572)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

90-04-46199-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 pages)

Collana

Bologna Studies in Religious History

Disciplina

284/.50944

Soggetti

Reformed Church - France - History - 16th century

Pastoral theology - France - History - 16th century

Pastoral theology - Reformed Church - History - 16th century

Reformed Church - Discipline

Clergy - Reformed Church

Authority - Religious aspects - Reformed Church

Protestants - France - History - 16th century

Reformation - France

France Church history 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Time of harvest : informal instruments of pastoral authority and the La Vau affair in Poitiers (c. 1555-1557) -- "Ceux qui s'y trouverent, sçavent" : a meeting of pastors in Paris (May 1559) -- The 'national debut' of the French Reformed Movement -- The institutional turn : negotiating the limits of pastoral authority -- The multiple battlefields of pastoral authority : quarrelsome pastors and scandalous books in Lower Languedoc (c. 1561-1563) -- The Jean Morély Affair (c. 1562-c.1572) : church polity, ecclesiastical discipline, and the authority of pastors -- Questioning the ministry of the Word of God : the 'double conversion' of a Reformed pastor.

Sommario/riassunto

"In The Emergence of Pastoral Authority in the French Reformed Church, c.1555-c.1572, Gianmarco Braghi offers a broad overview of the issues and ambiguities connected to the implementation of the



authority of the first generation of Geneva-trained French Reformed pastors and of their implications for the character and identity of the early French Reformed movement at large, using them as a prism for historical analysis of the transition to loose evangelicalism to a nascent synodal-consistorial network of Reformed congregations scattered across the kingdom of France"--