Debating the Sacraments: Print and Authority in the Early Reformation

545 Pages·2019·45.437 MB·English

by  Amy Nelson Burnett

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Debating the Sacraments
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Debating
the Sacraments
Print and Authority in
the Early Reformation
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AMY NELSON BURNETT
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Burnett, Amy Nelson, 1957– author.
Title: Debating the sacraments : print and authority in the
early Reformation / Amy Nelson Burnett.
Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018016554 (print) | LCCN 2018038613 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780190921187 (cloth) | ISBN 978019092194 (UPDF) |
ISBN 9780190921200 (EPUB) | ISBN 9780190921217 (Online Content)
Subjects: LCSH: Reformation. | Printing—Europe—History—16th century. |
Christian literature—Publishing—Europe—History—16th century. |
Book industries and trade—Europe—History—16th century. |
Lord’s Supper—History of doctrines. | Baptism—History of doctrines.
Classification: LCC BR307 (ebook) | LCC BR307 .B87 2019 (print) |
DDC 234/.1609031—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018016554
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In memoriam
Mabel Beardsley Peterson
Phyllis Peterson Nelson
Marlowe E. Nelson
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Illustrations xi
Preface xiii
Abbreviations and Common Shortened References xvii
1. Print and the Reformation Crisis of Authority 1
PART I. Overview, Background, and Beginnings
2. Contours of the Printed Debate 25
3. Heresy and Hermeneutics: The Background to the Controversy 50
4. Karlstadt’s Challenge to Luther 77
5. The Early Debate in Switzerland 98
PART II. Exchanges, 1526– 1529
6. Martin Bucer and Bugenhagen’s Psalms Commentary 121
7. Oecolampadius Against the Wittenbergers 139
8. Undermining Oecolampadius: The Debate with Pirckheimer 158
9. The Contributions of Zurich and Strasbourg 178
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10. Print, Polemics, and Popular Response in Southern Germany 204
11. The Debate Matures, 1527– 1529 222
PART III. Gradual Developments
12. The Lord’s Supper in Catechetical Literature 249
13. Sacramentarian Diversity 269
14. Reconstituting Authority 282
Conclusion 298
Notes 315
Bibliography 437
Index 495
Index of Scripture 523
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Figures
1.1. Number of Publications in German- Speaking Lands 8
1.2. Percentage of Publications on the Lord’s Supper/ Mass 10
2.1. Imprints Concerning the Lord’s Supper 27
2.2. Proportion of Imprints by Party, 1525– 1529 28
2.3. Number of Imprints by Party 28
2.4. Number of New Titles by Party 29
2.5. Pro- Wittenberg Authors 30
2.6. Pro- Wittenberg Publications Concerning the
Lord’s Supper 30
2.7. Luther Imprints Concerning the Lord’s Supper,
1525– 1529 31
2.8. Sacramentarian Authors 34
2.9. Catholic Authors 36
2.10. Printing Locations, 1525– 1529 39
2.11. Proportion of Imprints on the Lord’s Supper by
City, 1525– 1529 40
2.12. Genre of Imprints by Party 44
4.1. Published Contributions to the Controversy,
1524– 1525 91
7.1. Oecolampadius’s Contributions to the Controversy,
1525– June 1527 141
9.1. Zurich/ Swiss Contributions to the Controversy,
1526– June 1527 180
9.2. Other Contributions to the Controversy,
1526– March 1527 195