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Teaching the Reformation - Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Teaching the Reformation - Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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Though the Reformation was sparked by the actions of Martin Luther,
it was not a decisive break from the Church in Rome but rather a
gradual process of religious and social change. As the men
responsible for religious instruction and moral oversight at the
village level, parish pastors played a key role in the
implementation of the Reformation and the gradual development of a
Protestant religious culture, but their ministry has seldom been
examined in the light of how they were prepared for the pastorate.
Teaching the Reformation examines the four generations of Reformed
pastors who served the church of Basel in the century after the
Reformation, focusing on the evolution of pastoral training and
Reformed theology, the theory and practice of preaching, and the
performance of pastoral care in both urban and rural parishes. It
looks at how these pastors were educated and what they learned,
examining not only the study of theology but also the general
education in languages, rhetoric and dialectic that future pastors
received at the citys Latin school and in the arts faculty of the
university. It points to significant changes over time in the
content of that education, which in turn separated Basels pastors
into distinct generations. The study also looks more specifically
at preaching in Basel, demonstrating how the evolution of dialectic
and rhetoric instruction, and particularly the spread of Ramism,
led to changes in both exegetical method and homiletics. These
developments, combined with the gradual elaboration of Reformed
theology, resulted in a distinctive style of Reformed Orthodox
preaching in Basel. The development of pastoral education also had
a direct impact on how Basels clergy carried out their other
dutiescatechization, administering the sacraments, counseling the
dying and consoling the bereaved, and overseeing the moral conduct
of their parishioners. The growing professionalization of the
clergy, the result of more intensive education and more stringent
supervision, contributed to the gradual implantation of a Reformed
religious culture in Basel.
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