Theodore Beza at 500 : : new perspectives on an old reformer / / Kirk Summers, Scott M. Manetsch (editors).

• TeilnehmendeR: Summers, Kirk M., 1961-; Manetsch, Scott M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Gottingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2021]; 2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (389 pages) :; illustrations

This edited volume explores neglected aspects of the history, theology, and literary contribution of the Genevan reformer Theodore Beza (1519-1605). The contributors to this volume are an accomlished group of scholars who specialize in the religious and social history of 16th century reformed Protestantism. Theodore Beza at 500 celebrates the 500th anniversary of the reformer's birth by providing an original, insightful, and multifaceted study of one of the most important leaders of reformed Protestantism after John Calvin. --Back Cover.

Table of Contents

Introduction: New perspectives on an old reformer / Kirk Summers, Scott Manetsch -- Part One: Theodore Beza's Place in History. Before the Histoire Ecclésiastique : Theodore Beza's unknown apologetic history of the Lausanne pastors and professors / Michael Bruening -- Theodore Beza and Nicolas Des Gallars, best of friends? / Jeannine Olson -- Theodore Beza in England / Scott Manetsch -- Part Two: Theodore Beza and Biblical Interpretation. Suppress or retain? : Theodore Beza, natural theology, and the translation of Romans 1:18 / David Noe -- From Codex Bezae to La Bible : Theodore Beza's biblical scholarship and the French Geneva Bible of 1588 / Jennifer Powell McNutt -- Beza among the Lutherans : Acts 3:21 in the Wittenberg Catechism (1571) and Formula of Concord (1580) / Molly Buffington Lackey, Kirk Summers -- Part Three: Theodore Beza on Prophecy, Prodigies, and Predestination. Theodore Beza on prophets and prophecy / Jon Balserak -- "The leader of the ancient theologians" : Beza's use of Augustine in his predestination doctrine / Eunjin Kim -- Theodore Beza's elegy on the five martyrs of Lyon : wonder and consolation / Kirk Summers -- Part Four: Theodore Beza and his Catholic Opponents. Compelling each other : Theodore Beza's response to John Hay as part of Geneva's anti-Jesuit efforts / Theodore Van Raalte -- Nemeses to the end : Theodore Beza and his last Catholic adversaries / Jill Fehleison -- Part Five: Memories of Theodore Beza. Michel Le Faucheur and Edme Aubertin : seventeenth-century memories of Theodore Beza's eucharistic polemics / Martin Klauber -- Theodore Beza, collector of paintings : unexpected intellectual commerce in the first century of the Reformation / Max Engammare.