Amy Nelson Burnett

Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy (eBook, PDF)

A Study in the Circulation of Ideas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The debate over the Lord's Supper had momentous consequences for the Reformation, causing the division of the evangelical movement, influencing the formation of political alliances, and contributing to cultural differences among the Protestant territories of Germany and Switzerland. Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy is the first full-length study of the beginning of that debate. Going beyond the traditional focus on Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli, it emphasizes the diversity of the "sacramentarian" challenge to traditional belief in Christ's corporeal presence in the bread and wine of the Eucharist, and it re-evaluates the significance of Luther's colleague, Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt, for the debate. Burnett describes Luther's earliest criticisms of the mass and the efforts in Wittenberg to reform liturgical praxis to correspond with his ideas. She then looks at pamphlets written by other reformers to show how Luther's understanding of the sacrament was adapted and modified outside of Wittenberg. Ultimately, Burnett shows how Karlstadt's eucharistic pamphlets introduced into the public debate arguments that would become standard Reformed criticisms of the Lutheran position. The book also demonstrates the influence not only of Erasmus but also of John Wyclif and the Hussites for discussions of the sacrament, highlights the role of the reformers of Basel and Strasbourg for developing the "Zwinglian" understanding of the Lord's Supper, and draws attention to the early eucharistic theology of the Silesians Kaspar Schwenckfeld and Valentin Krautwald. This book will be an indispensable guide for readers seeking to understand the issues surrounding the outbreak of the eucharistic controversy in the sixteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199781249
• Artikelnr.: 38127948

Autorenporträt

Amy Nelson Burnett is professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 and The Yoke of Christ: Martin Bucer and Christian Discipline, as well as numerous articles on the Reformation in Switzerland and south Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Abbreviations
* Introduction
* 1: Prelude to the Eucharistic Conflict: Luther, Karlstadt and the
Wittenberg movement
* 2: From Pastoral Care to Polemic: The Evolution of Early Evangelical
Views on the Mass
* 3: "This is the Body Given for You": The Development of Karlstadt's
Eucharistic Theology
* 4: Ad Dextram Patris: Hussite Influences on the Early Eucharistic
Controversy
* 5: Karlstadt and the Zwinglians: The Eucharistic Controversy in
Zurich, Basel and Strasbourg
* 6: "One Body and Many Heads": The Diffusion of the Sacramentarian
Movement
* Appendix: The Publication of Karlstadt's Eucharistic Pamphlets,
1524-25
* Bibliography