John Calvin on the Lord's Supper: Food, Rest, and Healing for Shivering Souls
This article explores how the Lord's Supper may contribute to the healing of traumatized persons. Drawing on the 1541 French edition of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion and on contemporary literature on trauma, I suggest that individuals who have experienced traumatic eve...
| Published in: | Pastoral psychology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2017]
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Pastoral psychology
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church NBP Sacramentology; sacraments RG Pastoral care |
| Further subjects: | B
Relational home
B Rest B Religious absolutism B John Calvin B Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 B Lord's Supper B Sustaining absolutisms B Trauma B Truth B Food |
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| Summary: | This article explores how the Lord's Supper may contribute to the healing of traumatized persons. Drawing on the 1541 French edition of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion and on contemporary literature on trauma, I suggest that individuals who have experienced traumatic events may find in the Lord's Supper a trustworthy and nourishing relational home, a therapeutic space for truth-telling, and a life-sustaining absolutism. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-016-0740-2 |