The Freedom of the Spirit, Social Privilege, and Religious Dissent: Caspar Schwenckfeld and the Schwenkfelders

R. Emmet McLaughlin

doi:10.5771/9783748964773

Summary

Monographical study of special religious dissidents of the 16th and 17th centuries. These volume deals with dissident movements that failed to claim a place among the dominant religious communities of sixteenth-century Europe. Freedom of the Spirit is a collection of eight of Professor McLaughlin's essays on Schwenkfeld from 1979 to 1994,plus an introduction for this volume. Schwenkfeld (1489-1561), a Silesian nobleman, promulgated his spiritualist understanding of the gospel first in his native Duchy of Lausitz, then after 1529 in Strasbourg, Augsburg, Ulm, and Esslingen.

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Edition: 1/1996
Copyright year: 1996
ISBN-Print: 978-3-87320-886-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-6477-3
Publisher: Verlag Valentin Koerner, Baden-Baden
Series: Bibliotheca Dissidentium scripta et studia
Volume: 6
Language: English
Pages: 272
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 36
Caspar Schwenckfeld No access Pages 37 - 52
Sebastian Franck and Caspar Schwenckfeld No access Pages 53 - 72
Spiritualism and the Bible No access Pages 73 - 73
The Case of Caspar Schwenckfeld No access Pages 73 - 78
The Old Outer Man and Scripture No access Pages 79 - 84
Schwenckfeld and the Bible – Principles and Practice No access Pages 85 - 94
The Genesis of Schwenckfeld’s Eucharistic Doctrine No access Pages 95 - 124
Schwenckfeld and the South German Eucharistic Controversy No access Pages 125 - 152
The Schwenckfeld-Vadian Debate No access Pages 153 - 174
Inner Peace and Christian Fellowship No access Pages 175 - 198
Schwenckfeld and the Schwenkfelders in South Germany No access Pages 199 - 232
Martin Bucer, Caspar Schwenckfeld, and the Schwenkfelders of Strasbourg No access Pages 233 - 254
Bibliography No access Pages 255 - 272