The emergence of pastoral authority in the French Reformed Church (c.1555-c.1572)

The emergence of pastoral authority in the French Reformed Church (c.1555-c.1572) / by Gianmarco Braghi.

"In The Emergence of Pastoral Authority in the French Reformed Church, c.1555-c.1572, Gianmarco Braghi offers a broad overview of the issues and ambiguities connected to the implementation of the authority of the first generation of Geneva-trained French Reformed pastors and of their implicatio...

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Main Author: Braghi, Gianmarco (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:Bologna Studies in religious history, volume 1
Subjects:
1500-1599
Reformed Church > France > History > 16th century.
Pastoral theology > France > History > 16th century.
Pastoral theology > Reformed Church > History > 16th century.
Reformed Church > Discipline.
Clergy > Reformed Church.
Authority > Religious aspects > Reformed Church.
Protestants > France > History > 16th century.
Reformation > France.
Pastoral theology > Reformed Church
Authority > Religious aspects > Reformed Church
Pastoral theology
Protestants
Reformation
Reformed Church
Reformed Church > Discipline
France > Church history > 16th century.
France
Church history
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Evolving character of the French Reformed movement, c.1555-c.1572.
Table of Contents:
  • Time of harvest : informal instruments of pastoral authority and the La Vau affair in Poitiers (c. 1555-1557)
  • "Ceux qui s'y trouverent, sçavent" : a meeting of pastors in Paris (May 1559)
  • The 'national debut' of the French Reformed Movement
  • The institutional turn : negotiating the limits of pastoral authority
  • The multiple battlefields of pastoral authority : quarrelsome pastors and scandalous books in Lower Languedoc (c. 1561-1563)
  • The Jean Morély Affair (c. 1562-c.1572) : church polity, ecclesiastical discipline, and the authority of pastors
  • Questioning the ministry of the Word of God : the 'double conversion' of a Reformed pastor.

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