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

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