Dutch Review of Church History, Volume 85: The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe

Wim Janse, Ph.D. (1994) in Church History, Theological University Apeldoorn, is Extraordinary Professor of the History of the Reformation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at Leiden University, and Executive Editor of the Dutch Review of Church History and Brill’s Series in Church History.
Barbara Pitkin, Ph.D. (1994) in Theology, University of Chicago, is Acting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

All those interested in the history of Early Modern Christianity, confessionalization and identity formation, the history of education and theological training, and the history of exegesis, as well as sociologists and theologians.

Introduction

Part I. EDUCATION AND THEOLOGICAL TRAINING
Humanitas as Discriminating Factor in the Educational Writings of Erasmus and Luther, Riemer A. Faber
Reformed Education in Early Modern Europe: A Survey, Stefan Ehrenpreis
The Reformed Church and Education during the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, Leendert F. Groenendijk
Anmerkungen zur Theologenausbildung in Herborn, Andreas Mühling
Grenzenlos reformiert: Theologie am Bremer Gymnasium Illustre (1528-1812) , Wim Janse
Theological Education at the Dutch Universities in the Seventeenth Century: Four Professors on their Ideal of the Curriculum, F.G.M. Broeyer
Preaching Practice: Reformed Students’ Sermons, Karin Maag

Part II. INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE AND CONFESSIONAL PREACHING
The Moribund Moralist: Ethical Lessons in Calvin’s Commentary on Joshua, Raymond A. Blacketer
Luther, Bucer, and Calvin on Psalms 8 and 16: Confessional Formation and the Question of Jewish Exegesis, G. Sujin Pak
The Spiritual Gospel? Christ and Human Nature in Calvin’s Commentary on John, Barbara Pitkin
“Justified Without the Works of the Law”: Casiodoro de Reina on Romans 3,28, Rady Roldán-Figueroa
Competing Clerical Efforts to Secure Lay Support in the Flacian Controversy over Original Sin, Robert J. Christman
Preaching Calvinism in Lutheran Danzig: Jacob Fabritius on the Pastoral Office, Sven Tode
Preaching Scripture under Pressure in Tridentine Italy: A Case Study of Gabriele Fiamma, Emily Michelson
François de Sales and Catholic Reform in Seventeenth-Century France, Jason Sager

Part III. CONSTRUCTION OF CLERICAL AND COMMUNAL IDENTITIES
Trickle Down Spirituality? Dilemmas of the Elizabethan Jesuit Mission, Robert E. Scully
Between the Sacraments and Treason: Aspects of the Political Thought of the English Recusants in the First Decade of Elizabeth I’s Reign, Gary W. Jenkins
Advice Manuals and the Formation of English Protestant and Catholic Clerical Identities, 1560-1660, Ellen A. Macek
“A Priest Who Appears Good”: Manuals of Confession and the Construction of Clerical Identity in Early Modern Spain, Patrick J. O’Banion
“The Care of Souls is a Very Grave Burden for [the Pastor]”: Professionalization of Clergy in Early Modern Florence, Lucca, and Arezzo, Kathleen M. Comerford
Professionalization and Clerical Identity: Notes on the Early Modern Catholic Priest, Wietse de Boer
What’s in a Name? Language, Image, and Urban Identity in Early Modern Perth, Margo Todd
“Those Persistent Lutherans”: The Survival of Wesel’s Minority Lutheran Community, 1578-1612, David Fors Freeman
“Anyone Who Can Read May Be a Preacher”: Sixteenth-Century Roots of the Collegiants, Gerrit Voogt

Index of Names
Addresses of Contributors and Editors

REVIEW SECTION
Book Reviews, Index to the Reviews, Books Received