The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe

The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe provides a comprehensive survey of the Protestant clergy in Europe during the confessional age.Eight contributions, written by historians with specialist research knowledge in the field, offer the reader a wide-ranging synthesis of the main concerns of current historiography.

C. Scott Dixon is Senior Lecturer in European History at the Queen's University of Belfast. Luise Schorn-Schutte is Professor of Modern History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.

List of Tables

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Notes on the Contributors

viii

Introduction: The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe

1

(38)

C. Scott Dixon

Luise Schorn-Schutte

Before the Protestant Clergy: The Construction and Deconstruction of Medieval Priesthood

39

(21)

R.N. Swanson

The Making of the Protestant Pastor: The Theological Foundations of a Clerical Estate

60

(19)

R. Emmet McLaughlin

The Emergence of the Pastoral Family in the German Reformation: The Parsonage as a Site of Socio-religious Change

79

(21)

Susan C. Karant-Nunn

The Clergyman between the Cultures of State and Parish: Contestation and Compromise in Reformation Saxony

100

(20)

Jay Goodale

The Clergy and the Theological Culture of the Age: The Education of Lutheran Pastors in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

120

(17)

Thomas Kaufmann

The Protestant Ministry and the Cultures of Rule: The Reformed Zurich Clergy of the Sixteenth Century

137

Bruce Gordon

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The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe

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