Communicatio idiomatum : Reformation Christological debates / Richard Cross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross, Richard, 1964- author.

Series:

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justification (Christian theology)--History of doctrines--16th century.

Justification (Christian theology).

Justification (Christian theology)--History of doctrines.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 288 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This study offers a radical reinterpretation of the sixteenth-century Christological debates between Lutheran and Reformed theologians on the ascription of divine and human predicates to the person of the incarnate Son of God (the communicatio idiomatum). It does so by close attention to the arguments deployed by the protagonists in the discussion, and to the theologians' metaphysical and semantic assumptions, explicit and implicit. It traces the central contours of the Christological debates, from the discussion between Luther and Zwingli in the 1520s to the Colloquy of Montbeliard in 1586.0Richard Cross shows that Luther's Christology is thoroughly Medieval, and that innovations usually associated with Luther-in particular, that Christ's human nature comes to share in divine attributes-should be ascribed instead to his younger contemporary Johannes Brenz. The discussion is highly sensitive to the differences between the various Luther groups-followers of Brenz, and the different factions aligned in varying ways with Melanchthon-and to the differences between all of these and the Reformed theologians. By locating the Christological discussions in their immediate Medieval background, Cross also provides a comprehensive account of the continuities and discontinuities between the two eras. In these ways, it is shown that the standard interpretations of the Reformation debates on the matter are almost wholly mistaken.

Contents:

Introduction: The communicatio idiomatum and the metaphysics of the incarnation

Luther and Zwingli

Early Lutheran christologies

Calvin and his Lutheran opponents

Lutheran and Reformed debates in the early 1560s

The genus maiestaticum in non-Brenzian christologies

The Formula of Concord and Lutheran christology in the 1570s

Andreae and Beza at the Colloquy of Montbéliard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.

ISBN:

9780198846970

0198846975

OCLC:

1109820957

Publisher Number:

99983384776