The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) [1 ed.] 0195121333, 9780195121339
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Table of contents :
The Body Broken
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
1— Immanent Majesty: The Eucharist and the Body of Christ in Late Medieval Society
The Ascendancy of the Bodily Presence in Eucharistic Theology and Devotion
The Social Meanings and Uses of the Sacrament
Power in the Blood: The Eucharist and French Sacral Kingship
2— Heavenly Things in Heaven: The First Wave of French Protestant Propaganda, 1533–1535
Heresy in a Sacred Society: The Threat of Print
Early Reformed Writings on the Eucharist
"The Doctrine of Devils": Criticisms of the Mass
"Lift Up Your Hearts": Reorienting Eucharistic Piety
Theological Themes in the Reformed Doctrine
The Eucharist, Sovereignty, and Sedition
3— Specifying Power: Sacramental Signification in Calvin's Theology of the Eucharist
The French Writings on the Eucharist: Composition, Publishing, and Circulation
The Theory of Sacramental Signification
The Theology of the Eucharist and the Calvinist Economy of Power
4— Seeds of Discord: The Diffusion of the Reformed Doctrine, 1540–1560
Genevan Books and French Readers
Reformed Confessional Agreement on the Sacrament
Farel's Later Writings on the Eucharist
Pierre Viret's Polemical Writings on the Mass and Christ's Supper
Theodore Beza: Reformed Doctrine as Catholic Doctrine
Doctrinal Trajectories: Subjectivity, the Sacred, and Society
5— The Catholic Riposte: Defenses of the Real Presence at the Beginning of the Religious Wars
Dialogue and Division: The Colloquy of Poissy
Catholic Hermeneutics in the Sacramental Debate
The Fictions of Reformed Eucharistic Doctrine
The Miracle of the Bodily Presence
The Sacred Humanity of Christ
Christ Divided: Calvinist Doctrine Ramifies
6— The Eucharist, Reformed Social Formation, and the Ideology of Resistance
The Quest for a Holy Commonwealth
Believers and Idolaters: Constructing a Reformed Identity
Rhetoric, Representation, and Resistance
Conclusion
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Conclusion
Bibliography
I. Primary Sources
II. Secondary Works
Index
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