Transregional Reformation: Synods and Consensus in the Early Reformed Churches
Abstract
This article will explore what might be called the transregional scope and outreach of early modern Reformed synods in a theological as well as ecclesial sense, examining some very few but important moments between the sixteenth and seventeenth century that marked a turning point in the history of the European Reformed Churches and show some particular aspects of the constitutive link between synods and consensus. A transregional level implies a methodological shift towards a more complex and many-sided view of synods, according to which a supposedly unyielding and confessionally adamant institution was affected by the social, geographical, cultural, theological and political stratifications within a wide range of mediating factors and conditions: different local Churches were linked together and crossed the political and ecclesiastical borders through the channels along which persons and ideas passed from region to region, thus creating a mutual exchange through which political, institutional and theological communication took place.
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- Frontmatter
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- Literacy, Spirituality of Reading, and Catholic Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century Spain
- Transregional Reformation: Synods and Consensus in the Early Reformed Churches
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Gewissen und Gerechtigkeit in den Beichtbüchern der Frühen Neuzeit
- Literacy, Spirituality of Reading, and Catholic Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century Spain
- Transregional Reformation: Synods and Consensus in the Early Reformed Churches
- Preparing for Death: Aspects of Continuity and Change in Swedish Late Medieval and Reformation Traditions
- Preaching the Place of Huguenots in France: The Sermons of Jean Daillé and Huguenot Identity under the Edict of Nantes
- Les intellectuels iréniques de Transylvanie et la traduction de la Bible en roumain
- Linguet’s Lettre du Mandarin, a Forgotten Apology for the Jesuits: The Mandarin Wei Zheng as a Model
