A Companion to the Reformation in Geneva

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-37157-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 96, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

A Companion to the Reformation in Geneva describes the course of the Protestant Reformation in the city of Geneva from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It explores the beginnings of reform in the city, the struggles the reformers encountered when seeking to teach, minister to, educate, and discipline the inhabitants of Geneva, and the methods employed to overcome these obstacles. It examines Geneva’s relations with nearby cities and how Geneva handled the influx of immigrants from France. The volume focuses on the most significant aspects of life in the city, examines major theological and liturgical subjects associated with the Genevan Reformation, and describes the political, social, and cultural consequences of the Reformation for Geneva.

Contributors include: Jon Balserak, Sara Beam, Erik de Boer, Michael Bruening, Mathieu Caesar, Jill Fehleison, Emanuele Fiume, Hervé Genton, Anja Silvia Goeing, Christian Grosse, Scott Manetsch, Elsie McKee, Graeme Murdock, William G. Naphy, Peter Opitz, Jennifer Powell McNutt, Jameson Tucker, Theodore G. Van Raalte, and Jeffrey R. Watt.


“This volume is a scholarly and very accessible introduction to the Genevan Reformation that covers history, religious developments, and impact, balancing the perspectives of both historians and theologians. The contributors present an extraordinarily well-rounded view of Geneva during the Reformation. It will be a tremendous aid to scholarship and the book that the next generation of scholars will use both as a handy reference and as the starting point for future work.”

Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balserak, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Jon Balserak

PART 1

Reforming Geneva

1 Government and Political Life During an Age of Transition (1451–1603)

Mathieu Caesar

2 Apostle of the Alps

Guillaume Farel and the Reforming of Geneva

Theodore G. Van Raalte

3 A Long-Suffering Ministry

Calvin and the Continual Crises of Geneva, ca. 1535–1560

William G. Naphy

4 Théodore de Bèze and Geneva

Hervé Genton

5 The Pays de Vaud

First Frontier of the Genevan Reformation

Michael Bruening

6 The Genevan Churches and the Western Church

Jon Balserak

PART 2

Ministry

7 “Docere et movere”

Preaching, Sacrament, and Prayer in the Reformed Liturgical System of 16th-Century Geneva

Christian Grosse

8 Pastors and Ministry in Reformed Geneva

Scott M. Manetsch

9 Expounding the Scriptures

The Sermons, Lectures, and congrégations

Erik A. de Boer

10 Religious Life in Rural Geneva

Graeme Murdock

11 ‘Where today are the widows who have this honorable office?’

Calvin, the Diaconate, and Women

Elsie Anne McKee

PART 3

Education, Discipline, and Control

12 The Genevan Academy

Scrutinizing European Connections in the Time of Theodore Beza

Anja-Silvia Goeing

13 The Consistory of Geneva

Jeffrey R. Watt

14 Torture and Punishment in Reformation Geneva

Sara Beam

PART 4

Relationships and Developments

15 Geneva, Zurich, and the Swiss Reformed Churches

Peter Opitz

16 Geneva, the Italian Refuge, and Contact with Italy

Emanuele Fiume

17 Geneva, Its Printing Industry, and Book Trade

Jameson Tucker

18 Bishop in Exile

Francis de Sales, Annecy, and Reformation

Jill Fehleison

19 Reform under Siege

The Resilience of Geneva’s 17th-and 18th-Century Church

Jennifer Powell McNutt

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jon Balserak, Ph.D. (2002, Edinburgh University) is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Religion at the University of Bristol. His publications include John Calvin as Sixteenth-Century Prophet (Oxford, 2014) and Calvinism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2016).