Teaching the Reformation : ministers and their message in Basel, 1529-1629 / Amy Nelson Burnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnett, Amy Nelson, 1957-

Contributor:

Class of 1939 Fund.

Series:

Oxford studies in historical theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformed Church--Doctrines.

Reformed Church.

Pastoral theology.

Clergy--Training of--History.

Clergy.

Reformation.

Clergy--Training of.

History.

Basel (Switzerland)--Church history.

Basel (Switzerland).

Reformation--Switzerland--Basel.

Switzerland--Basel.

Physical Description:

xii, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

"Teaching the Reformation examines the four generations of Reformed pastors who served the church of Basel in the century after the Reformation. Focusing on the evolution of pastoral training and Reformed theology, the theory and practice of preaching, and the performance of pastoral care in both urban and rural parishes, Amy Nelson Burnett sheds new light on the development of the Reformed ministry. Burnett looks at how Basel's pastors were educated and what they learned, examining not only their study of theology but also their general education in languages, rhetoric, and dialectic at the city's Latin school and in the arts faculty of the university. Teaching the Reformation points to significant changes over time in the content of that education, separating Basel's pastors into distinct generations."--Jacket.

Contents:

Basel and its Reformed church

Preaching and teaching in theory and practice

Building a new church

Laying the foundation

The arts faculty and general education

Theology instruction in Basel

The development of Reformed homiletics

The evolution of preaching in Basel

The career pf a Basel pastor

The pastor as teacher

Pastoral care from cradle to grave

The transformation of the pastoral ministry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [405]-442) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.

ISBN:

0195305760

9780195305760

OCLC:

63703810

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