The Body Broken : the Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France.
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 p...
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Oxford University Press, USA,
1999
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| Series: | Oxford studies in historical theology.
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Table of Contents:
- 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, 15331535; 3 Specifying Power: Sacramental Signification in Calvin's Theology of the Eucharist; 4 Seeds of Discord: The Diffusion of the Reformed Doctrine, 15401560; 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.
