Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)
John Calvin, Worship, and Reformed Traditions
- 205 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
The chapters in this volume contribute to recent scholarship exploring the reform of worship as a central feature of Protestant communities at their inception and through the ages. Case studies ranging from sixteenth-century Geneva and its environs to the early modern Netherlands and South Asia to nineteenth-century America provide a corrective to traditional depictions of Reformed worship as a static, sober, interior, and largely individual experience focused on the sermon. The key moments in the broad stream of Reformed worship traditions analysed by an international team of experts yield collectively an image of the adaptive and negotiated character of worship attitudes and practices over time and in varied cultural settings. The contributions examine the phenomenon of worship in broadly construed ways and from angles ranging from ritual studies, liturgical innovation, material culture, and social impact. A second »red thread« running through the volume concerns the material, sensory, emotional, and experiential dimensions of Reformed religious culture. Worship emerges as both a site of conflict and renewal in Reformed traditions, inspiring not only confrontations and debates but also fruitful engagements that stimulated and continue to invite reflection on this critical category of Reformed faith traditions, self-understandings, and cultural impact.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part One. Foundations: Reforming Worship in Sixteenth-Century Thought and Practice
- Karin Maag: Permeable Borders: Cross-Confessional Encounters and Traditions in Reformation Geneva
- Jeannine Olson: The Quest for Anonymity: Laurent de Normandie, His Colporteurs, and the Expansion of Reformed Communities through Worship
- Jason Zuidema: Le glaive de la parolle véritable: The Will of God and Divine Worship in Guillaume Farel's Later Writings
- Sue A. Rozeboom: By Your Spirit: The Pneumatology of Sixteenth-Century Reformed Liturgies for the Lord's Supper
- Part Two. Legacies: Practical and Theoretical Transformations of Reformed Worship Traditions
- Andrew Spicer: The Material Culture of the Lord's Supper: Adiaphora, Beakers, and Communion Plate in the Dutch Republic
- Randall D. Engle: Voetius Outscored
- Charles H. Parker: The Seduction of Idols: Dutch Calvinist Readings of Worship and Society in Seventeenth-Century Asia
- Theodore Vial: Toward a Reformed Theory of Ritual in Modernity
- List of Contributors
- Index