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Calvinism's First Battleground - Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Calvinism's First Battleground - Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Religious Tradition, Culture and Society, 4
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This volume sheds new light on the origin of Calvinism and the
Reformed faith through a detailed examination of the Reformation in
the Pays de Vaud. A specifically Calvinist identity and theology
emerged out of two key conflicts in the region: first, the fight to
turn away from Catholic practices and traditions a population that
had been forced to convert to Protestantism by the Bernese after
their conquest of Vaud in 1536; second, the struggle against the
Zwinglian political and theological ideas that dominated the Swiss
Confederation and differed from the Calvinists' understanding of
ecclesiastical discipline, the Eucharist, and predestination. The
Pays de Vaudwas central to this struggle, for it was subject
politically to Zwinglian, German-speaking Bern, but many of its
ministers were more strongly influenced by Calvin...
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