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Union with Christ
Union with Christ is the first extensive work on the Christology of Swiss theologian Adolf Schlatter (1852-1938). It offers fresh insights not only to readers interested in Adolf Schlatter's theology in particular, but also to students and professionals from the historical and dogmatic disciplines in general. The first part of the book sets the scene by tracing the biographical context of Schlatter's Christological thinking. It explores Schlatter's evaluation of Kantianism, of the revival movement, of Ritschl and the Ritschl school, and of dialectical theologians, particularly Karl Barth. Based on this analysis, the second part of the work examines the dogmatic shape of Schlatter's relationa...
A Companion to Reformed Orthodoxy
This book reflects and comprises the latest in research on the history and theology of Reformed Orthodoxy (± 1550-1750) and is at the same time a work in progress, which makes this volume in the Companion series unique. The reason for this is not only the quality of the authors and the chapters they have produced, but also the fact that the study of Reformed Orthodoxy has in recent years taken an entirely new approach and has received renewed and spirited attention, whose results have so far not been brought together in one book. The renewed interest and reappraisal of this period in intellectual history is reflected in this work in which an international team of renowned scholars give an oversight of this fascinating period in intellectual history. Contributors include Willem van Asselt, Aza Goudriaan, Irena Backus, Mark Beach, Christian Moser, Anton Vos, Tobias Sarx, Andreas Mühling, Carl Trueman, Graeme Murdock, Joel Beeke, Sebastian Rehnman, Scott Clark, John Fesko, Luca Baschera, Maarten Wisse, Hugo Meijer, Pieter Rouwendal, and John Witte.
Artistic Disobedience
In Artistic Disobedience Claudio Bacciagaluppi shows how music practice was an occasion for cross-confessional contacts in 17th- and 18th-century Switzerland, implying religious toleration. The difference between public and private performing contexts, each with a distinct repertoire, appears to be of paramount importance. Confessional barriers were overcome in an individual, private perspective. Converted musicians provide striking examples. Also, book trade was often cross-confessional. Music by Catholic (but also Lutheran) composers was diffused in Reformed territories mainly in the private music societies of Swiss German towns (collegia musica). The political and pietist influences in the Zurich and Winterthur music societies encouraged forms of communication that are among the acknowledged common roots of European Enlightenment.
A Companion to German Pietism, 1660-1800
A Companion to German Pietism offers an introduction to recent Pietism scholarship on both sides of the Atlantic, in German, Dutch, and English. The focus is upon early modern German Pietism, a movement that arose in the late 17th century German Empire within both Reformed and Lutheran traditions. It introduced a new paradigm to German Protestantism that included personal renewal, new birth, women-dominated conventicles, and millennialism. The “Introduction” offers a concise overview of modern research into German Pietism. The Companion is then organized according to the different worlds of Pietist existence—intellectual, devotional, literary-cultural, and social-political.
Physico-theology
Contributors: Ann Blair, Simona Boscani Leoni, John Hedley Brooke, Nicolas Brucker, Katherine Calloway, Kathleen Crowther, Brendan Dooley, Peter Harrison, Barbara Hunfeld, Eric Jorink, Scott Mandelbrote, Brian W. Ogilvie, Martine Pécharman, Jonathan Sheehan, Anne-Charlott Trepp, Rienk Vermij, Kaspar von Greyerz
Reformed Majorities in Early Modern Europe
This volume contains the papers of the international RefoRC conference on 'Reformed Majorities and Minorities in Early Modern Europe' as it was organized by the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden in cooperation with the Faculty of 'Artes Liberales' of the University of Warsaw. The conference took place April 10-12, 2013 in Emden and was part of the research project 'Doctrina et Tolerantia' directed by the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek. The contributions in this volume deal with the question how the relation between doctrine and toleration was dealt with in territories with a Reformed majority. Did the refugee-experience of the Reformed make them tolerant or militant? How did official policy relate to everyday practice? Were there different opinions on this issue within the Reformed tradition? The answers to these questions give more insights into the diversity of international Calvinism and the way theory was put into practice.
Der frühe Zürcher Pietismus (1689–1721)
Wer waren die Zürcher Pietistinnen und Pietisten im ausgehenden 17. und beginnenden 18. Jahrhundert, als sich die Frömmigkeitsbewegung zu formieren begann? Aus welchem sozialen Milieu stammten sie? Was beschäftigte und was lasen sie? Was waren ihre Hoffnungen, und wie verhielten sie sich gegenüber ihrer sozialen Umgebung? Auf breiter Quellenbasis geht Kaspar Bütikofer diesen Fragen nach. Neben Akten aus zwei Pietistenprozessen wertet er insbesondere die Bibliothek sowie die Lebenszeugnisse des pietistischen Kaufmanns, Johann Heinrich Locher (1648–1718), aus, die die Denk- und Lebenswelt des Zürcher Pietismus erschließen. Abschließend untersucht er die Beteiligung der pietistischen Reformbewegung an den Verfassungsunruhen von 1713.
Spiritual Alchemy
"This book traces the continued existence of the spiritual alchemy of rebirth in heterodox and specifically Boehmist circles from around 1600 to the early twentieth century. The basic claim of continuity from Boehme to Atwood argued here is not new. A particularly apt expression may be found in F. Sherwood Taylor's The Alchemists of 1949, in which the founding editor of Ambix notes 'the existence of a school of mystical alchemists whose purpose was self-regeneration.' With Boehme as an important early exponent, this 'tendency culminated in 1850' with Atwood's Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery. Taylor's statement, it turns out, could hardly have been more accurate yet has so far lacked the support of a comprehensive presentation. This led Principe and Newman to describe such claims of continuity regarding spiritual alchemy as mere 'conjecture' without 'clear historical evidence.' This book marshals that hitherto elusive evidence, much of it found in obscure manuscript sources, and thus documents the continuity of spiritual alchemy that links the early-modern to the modern era"--
Schweizer Kirchengeschichte, neu reflektiert
«Schweizer Kirchengeschichte - neu reflektiert» - unter diesem Titel vereinigt das vorliegende Buch die Vorträge des gleichnamigen Symposiums, das im November 2008 zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Rudolf Dellsperger in Bern veranstaltet wurde. Die Beiträge des Bandes widmen sich den neueren Forschungsergebnissen auf dem Gebiet der Schweizer Kirchengeschichte, dem der Jubilar in Forschung und Lehre in besonderer Weise verbunden ist. In Studien zu ausgewählten Fragen oder in Überblicken über breitere Themenkomplexe reflektieren sie den gegenwärtigen Stand der kirchengeschichtlichen Forschung in der Schweiz, richten den Blick auf weiterführende Ansätze und verweisen auf Desiderate und anstehende Aufgaben. Das Buch deckt dabei verschiedene Epochen sowie unterschiedliche Themenbereiche ab und dokumentiert damit zugleich den vielfältigen Charakter der Geschichte von Kirchen, Christentum und Religion in der Schweiz.
Der radikale Pietismus
The more radical trends in Pietism are no longer seen by researchers as a marginal part of an otherwise well-integrated religious movement, but rather as a genuine component of one of the most important reform movements in European and North American Protestantism.This volume contains the newest research contributions concerning well-known and less well-known figures from radical Pietism, such as the Petersen couple, Gottfried Arnold and Gerhard Tersteegen. In addition, it addresses radicalism as one of the overall defining factors of Pietism – for example, with Francke, Zinzendorf and the Moravian Church as well as among representatives of Lutheran orthodoxy. With this the authors present the state-of-the-art research and develop new pespectives for future research on this phenomenon.
