Reforming Priesthood in Reformation Zurich
Subtitle: Heinrich Bullinger's End-Times Agenda
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Company KG
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9783525570920
Subjects: Clergy, office; Priesthood; Reformation, switzerland
Description: Back cover: Jon D. Wood studies the changing clerical identity in sixteenth-century Zurich, situated within broader apocalyptic and eschatological themes of Christendom. Early Reformation in Zurich revised traditional priesthood rather as a kind of prophethood. Heinrich Bullinger's End-Times idiom them promoted a distinctly Protestant reclamation of clerical priesthood. Private manuscripts supplement Bullinger's published works on this fraught subject. This study re-assesses aspects of Reformation history in areas of church-state coordination and in related theological concepts of covenant and justification.