Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and WittenbergIn this study, Irene Backus examines the fate of the Apocalypse at the hands of early Protestants in three centers of the Reformation: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg. To do so, Backus systematically investigates sources and methods of the most important reformed and Lutheran commentaries of the Apocalypse from 1528-1584. |
Contents
1 The Problem of Canonicity | 3 |
2 Antoine du Pinet and His Models | 37 |
3 Augustin Marlorat and Nicolas Colladon | 61 |
4 The Apocalypse and the Zurich Reformers | 87 |
David Chytraeus and Nikolaus Selnecker | 113 |
Conclusion | 135 |
Notes | 139 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg Oxford Studies in Historical Theology |
| Author | Irena Backus |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0195350057, 9780195350050 |
| Length | 208 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / History |
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