FirstCity
Welcome to First City University College Library iPortal | library@firstcity.edu.my | +603-7735 2088 (Ext. 519)
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

A companion to the Swiss Reformation / edited by Amy Nelson Burnett and Emidio Campi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 72.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 661 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004316355
  • 9004316353
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Companion to the Swiss Reformation.DDC classification:
  • 274.94/06 23
LOC classification:
  • BR410 .C66 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
The Swiss Confederation before the Reformation / Regula Schmid -- The Reformation in Zurich / Emidio Campi -- The Reformation in Bern / Martin Sallmann -- The Reformation in Basel / Amy Nelson Burnett -- The Reformation in Schaffhausen / Erich Bryner -- The Reformation in St. Gallen and Appenzell / Erich Bryner -- Failed Reformations / Sundar Henny -- The Reformation in the Three Leagues (Grisons) / Jan-Andrea Bernhard -- Francophone territories allied to the Swiss Confederation / Michael W. Bruening -- The Swiss Anabaptists / Andrea Str�ubind -- Theological profile / Emidio Campi -- Polity and worship in the Swiss Reformed churches / Bruce Gordon -- Schools and education, 1500-1600 / Karin Maag -- Swiss society : family, gender, and the poor / Kaspar von Greyerz -- Reformation culture / Irena Backus -- Religious stalemate and confessional alignments : dynamics and stagnation in the Confederation from 1531 to 1618 / Thomas Maissen.
Summary: A Companion to the Swiss Reformation describes the course of the Protestant Reformation in the Swiss Confederation over the course of the sixteenth century. Its essays examine the successes as well as the failures of the reformation movement, considering not only the institutional churches but also the spread of Anabaptism. The volume highlights the different form that the Reformation took among the members of the Confederation and its allied territories, and it describes the political, social and cultural consequences of the Reformation for the Confederation as a whole.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 30, 2016).

The Swiss Confederation before the Reformation / Regula Schmid -- The Reformation in Zurich / Emidio Campi -- The Reformation in Bern / Martin Sallmann -- The Reformation in Basel / Amy Nelson Burnett -- The Reformation in Schaffhausen / Erich Bryner -- The Reformation in St. Gallen and Appenzell / Erich Bryner -- Failed Reformations / Sundar Henny -- The Reformation in the Three Leagues (Grisons) / Jan-Andrea Bernhard -- Francophone territories allied to the Swiss Confederation / Michael W. Bruening -- The Swiss Anabaptists / Andrea Str�ubind -- Theological profile / Emidio Campi -- Polity and worship in the Swiss Reformed churches / Bruce Gordon -- Schools and education, 1500-1600 / Karin Maag -- Swiss society : family, gender, and the poor / Kaspar von Greyerz -- Reformation culture / Irena Backus -- Religious stalemate and confessional alignments : dynamics and stagnation in the Confederation from 1531 to 1618 / Thomas Maissen.

A Companion to the Swiss Reformation describes the course of the Protestant Reformation in the Swiss Confederation over the course of the sixteenth century. Its essays examine the successes as well as the failures of the reformation movement, considering not only the institutional churches but also the spread of Anabaptism. The volume highlights the different form that the Reformation took among the members of the Confederation and its allied territories, and it describes the political, social and cultural consequences of the Reformation for the Confederation as a whole.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide