Melanchthon and Calvin on confession and Communion : : early modern Protestant penitential and eucharistic piety / / Herman A. Speelman.

• Superior document: Refo500 Academic Studies, Volume 14
• VerfasserIn: Speelman, H. A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Refo500 academic studies ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 pages).

Table of Contents

Part 1. Piety in the late Middle Ages and the early modern era. Penance and confession in the late medieval period -- Man, freedom, and the church: how to serve God freely, within or outside the power of the church -- The Eucharist as a mysterious representation of Christ -- Part 2. Melanchthon's turn and contribution. Melanchthon: church renewal through visitation and instruction -- Melanchthon's contribution to innovating the evangelical understanding of penance -- Melanchthon and Calvin on confession, contrition, and penitence: daily practices of life and death -- Part 3. Calvin's turn and contribution. The importance of being well-prepared for participation in Holy Communion in Calvin's Geneva -- Calvin on confession: his struggle for a new form of discipline and our struggle to understand his view -- 'One with Christ': Calvin's short treatise on the Lord's Supper -- Part 4. The turn and contribution of subsequent generations of Protestants. Calvinism and the origins of religious plurality in Europe -- Developments in the penitential and eucharistic piety of Protestant churches.