A la recherche du Bucer de l'histoire
The example of Zwingli, torn between Realpolitik and theocracy, is used to illustrate the thesis that the work of a reformer is understood better as the outworking of a tension between two visions than as one goal becoming progressively clearer. In Bucer's work the tension separates the « offic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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1976
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Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français
Year: 1976, Volume: 122, Pages: 491-506 |
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| Summary: | The example of Zwingli, torn between Realpolitik and theocracy, is used to illustrate the thesis that the work of a reformer is understood better as the outworking of a tension between two visions than as one goal becoming progressively clearer. In Bucer's work the tension separates the « official » churchman accepting and sanctifying the whole culture from the « free churchman » who on both pastoral and biblicistic grounds sought a voluntary gathering of committed believers. The two visions could be held together as long as it could be hoped that the civil authorities could be won for the « free » vision. The study retraces the phases of Bucer's efforts toward that end: Konvent, synod, catechism, ecclesiolae, and notes that it is his vision of the freer church which through Calvin influences later history in puritanism. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français
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