The Zurich Origins of Reformed Covenant Theology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hildebrand, Pierrick.

Series:

Oxford Studies in Historical Theology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformed Church--Europe--History--16th century.

Reformed Church.

Covenant theology.

Theology--History--16th century.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

This book explores the origins and development of one of the most significant doctrines of Reformation theology. The innovative ways in which the Zurich reformer Huldrych Zwingli and his successor Heinrich Bullinger thought about the relationship between the Old and New Testaments left an indelible mark on the Reformed tradition in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Distinctively, Zwingli and Bullinger emphasized the continuity of both testaments and spoke of a single covenant between God and humanity. This would become one of the defining teachings of Reformed Christianity. This book follows the development of their ?covenant theology? in the Reformation and argues for its adoption by John Calvin in Geneva and the German theologians of the post-Reformation era.

Contents:

Introduction

Part One: Zwingli as Initiator

Testamental Discontinuity, 1519-1525

Zwingli's Covenantal Turn of 1525

Part Two: Heinrich Bullingerand the Development of a Tradition

Mutual Influence, to 1534

The Centrality of the Covenant, 1534-1551

Consolidation, 1551-1575

Part Three: Receptions

Calvin

Heidelberg

Epilogue

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-760760-8

0-19-760758-6

OCLC:

1407069735