Preaching a dual identity : : Huguenot sermons and the shaping of confessional identity, 1629-1685 / / by Nicholas Must.

• Superior document: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History,
• VerfasserIn: Must, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: St. Andrews studies in Reformation history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (247 pages) :; illustrations.

In Preaching a Dual Identity , Nicholas Must examines seventeenth-century Huguenot sermons to study the development of French Reformed confessional identity under the Edict of Nantes. Of key concern is how a Huguenot hybrid identity was formulated by balancing a strong sense of religious particularism with an enthusiastic political loyalism. Must argues that sermons were an integral part of asserting this unique confessional position in both their preached and printed forms. To demonstrate this, Must explores a variety of sermon themes to access the range of images and arguments that preachers employed to articulate a particular vision of their community as a religious minority in France.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Medium and the Messengers -- An Exclusive Community: Defining the Huguenot Petit Troupeau -- Civics and Religion, or Why Huguenots Make the Best Subjects -- Marriage and Confessionalization, Part 1: Shaping Huguenot Identity through Sermons on the Conjugal Unit -- Marriage and Confessionalization, Part 2: Shaping Huguenot Identity beyond the Couple -- An Epilogue, or: Huguenot Identity beyond the Revocation, Familiar Imagery and Huguenot History in Refugee Sermons -- Conclusion.