Pilgram Marpeck : his life and social theology / by Stephen B. Boyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyd, Stephen Blake.

Series:

Duke monographs in medieval and Renaissance studies ; no. 12.

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Duke monographs in medieval and Renaissance studies ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marbeck, Pilgram, approximately 1495-1556.

Marbeck, Pilgram.

Anabaptists--Biography.

Anabaptists.

Anabaptists--Doctrines--History--16th century.

Christian sociology--History--16th century.

Christian sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This intellectual and social history is the first comprehensive biography of Pilgram Marpeck (c. 1495-1556), a radical reformer and lay leader of Anabaptist groups in Switzerland, Austria, and South Germany. Marpeck's influential life and work provide a glimpse of the theologies and practices of the Roman Church and of various reform movements in sixteenth-century Europe.Drawing on extensive archival data documenting Marpeck's professional life, as well as on his numerous published and unpublished writings on theology and religious reform, Stephen B. Boyd traces Marpeck's unconvention

Contents:

1. Rattenberg: crisis of loyalty

2. The Myster of the Cross: theologies of suffering

3. Strassburg: social and religious radicalism

4. Marpeck's theology of the cross and the Christian community

5. Interim years: struggle for unity and institutional identity

6. Augsburg: confessional pluralism and political conflict

7. Gerechtigkeit and Marpeck's social theology

Conclusion.

Notes:

Issued also as v. 147 of Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz, Abteilung Religionsgeschichte.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06236-4

9786613062369

0-8223-8165-6

OCLC:

226068182