Finding the middle way : the Utraquists' liberal challenge to Rome and Luther / Zdeněk V. David.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

David, Zdeněk V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utraquists.

Bohemia (Czech Republic)--Church history.

Bohemia (Czech Republic).

Physical Description:

xxii, 579 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003]

Contents:

1. The Travails of the Via Media: Historiography 1

2. A Prolegomenon: The First Century of Utraquism, 1415-1517 18

3. Utraquism's Curious Encounter with Luther 45

4. Bohuslav Bilejovsky and the Geography of Utraquist Ecclesiology 80

5. Pavel Bydzovsky and Utraquism's Second Confrontation with Luther 111

6. The Utraquist Consistory, the Archbishop of Prague, and a Brief Honeymoon 143

7. The Plebeianization of Utraquism: The Controversy over the Bohemian Confession of 1575 168

8. Orthodoxy and Toleration: The Utraquists and the Lutherans, 1575-1609 198

9. The Utraquists versus the Curia: Liberal or Authoritarian Church, 1575-1609 240

10. The Curia Tightens the Noose: The Advance of Confessionalization, 1575-1609 278

11. A Cohabitation of Convenience: The Utraquists and the Lutherans under the Letter of Majesty, 1609-1620 302

12. White Mountain, 1620: The Transfiguration and the Protean Legacy of Utraquism 349

Epilog: The Meaning of the Bohemian Reformation 378.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-551) and index.

ISBN:

0801873827

OCLC:

51799207