Reformation
Subtitle: legacy and future
By: Petra Bosse-Huber, Serge Fornerod, Thies Gundlach, Gottfried Locher, editors
Publisher: World Council of Churches Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9782825416600
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Reformation; Congresses
Description: The historical, theological, and pastoral insights found in this book are considered timely, due to the approaching 500th anniversary of the European Reformation. The book's contributions offer new discussions on the social history of the reforms, the historical and contemporary significance of key doctrines, and the enduring legacy of a movement that shook the world and propelled it into modernity.
Notes: Contributions from a congress sponsored by the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches (FSPC) held in Zurich in October 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Introducing the Reformation jubilee :; title: 1, "Who am I to stand in God's way?": opening sermon / Michel Müller; title: 2. The Reformation: remembering for our future / Gottfried Locher; title: 3. Why are we gathered together? / Nikolaus Schneider; title: Part 2. Biblical studies :; title: 4. Romans 3:21-31 / Karen Georgia Thompson; title: 5. John 3:1-15 / Margot Kässmann; title: 6. Matthew 5:13-16 / Klara Tarr Cselovszky; title: Part 3. Theological legacy of the Reformation :; title: 7. The Reformation's legacy / Rowan Williams; title: 8. An exclusive faith: the fourfold "alone" of Reformation theology / Ulrich H.J. Körtner; title: 9. The Swiss contribution to the Reformation movement / Peter Opitz; title: 10. Protestantism and postconfessionalism in Korea / Jong Wha Park; title: 11. The legacy of the Reformation and its significance for the ecumenical movement today / Olav Fykse Tveit; title: Part 4. Themes and impact of the Reformation :; title: A: Church history :; title: 12. Earlier Reformations and Reformation: Pierre Valdo, John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, Girolamo Savonarola / Fulvio Ferrario; title: 13. Breaking away or emerging from the Middle Ages? / Volker Leppin; title: 14. Humanism, Reformation, Enlightenment: connections and divisions / Christine Christ-von Wedel; title: 15. New media and new networks: the Reformation and the printed book / Martin Wallraff; title: 16. The princes' Reformation and the people's Reformation / Athina Lexutt; title: 17. Reformation, radical Reformation, Anabaptists, and the Peasants' War: Reformation between intolerance and revolution / Walter Fleischmann-Bisten; title: 18. Reformation jubilee and confessionalization / Erik A. de Boer; title: 19. Pietism: a second Reformation? / Martin Hirzel; title: B. Social history :; title: 20. Impact of the Reformation on women's lives: Strasbourg in the 16th century / Anne-Marie Heitz Muller; title: 21. Reformation jubilees: a Protestant construction / Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard; title: 22. Caricature and satire in the age of Reformation and confessions / Frédéric Elsig; title: 23. Reformation and democracy: subsidiarity and the priesthood of all believers / Martin Sallmann; title: C. Dogmatics :; title: 24. The "unintended" Reformation?: reflections on the Reformation, individualism, and the secular age / Christophe Chalamet; title: 25. Calvin's economic ethics: capitalist, socialist, or something else entirely? / François Dermange; title: 26. Reformation and politics: between prophetic voice and blind obedience / Douwe Visser; title: D. Ecumenism :; title: 27. Luther's dispute with his Catholic opponents: the example of purgatory / Wolfgang Thoenissen; title: 28. A dialogue that turned into a monologue: correspondence between theologians from Tübingen and the Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople, 1573-1581 / Viorel Mehedinţu; title: 29. Reform or Reformation?: the Councils of Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II / Johanna Rahner; title: Part 5. The churches and the Reformation jubilee :; title: 30. In the beginning there was freedom / Thies Gundlach; title: 31. Challenges and opportunities of the jubilee: a Lutheran perspective / Anne Burghardt; title: 32. The Reformation jubilee and Christianity in China / Aiming Wang; title: 33. Commemorating the Reformation from an ecumenical perspective / Kurt Cardinal Koch; title: Part 6. Evaluating the jubilee conference :; title: 34. A polyphony of Protestant voices / Michael Bünker; title: 35. Why we celebrate the jubilee / Ibrahim Wushishi; title: 36. Free evangelical churches and the jubilee / Frank Fornaçon; title: 37. Anabaptist and Mennonite churches and the Reformation jubilee / Hanspeter Jecker.