The Body broken [[electronic resource] ] : the Calvinist doctrine of the Eucharist and the symbolization of power in sixteenth-century France / / Christopher Elwood
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| Autore: |
Elwood Christopher
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| Titolo: |
The Body broken [[electronic resource] ] : the Calvinist doctrine of the Eucharist and the symbolization of power in sixteenth-century France / / Christopher Elwood
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 234.163 |
| 234/.163/088242 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | France Church history 16th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Body broken |
| ISBN: | 1-280-47066-6 |
| 0-19-535292-0 | |
| 0-585-21178-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455996003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Oxford studies in historical theology.