Teaching the Reformation Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529-1629

"Teaching the Reformation examines the four generations of Reformed pastors who served the church of Basel in the century after the Reformation. Focusing on the evolution of pastoral training and Reformed theology, the theory and practice of preaching, and the performance of pastoral care in both urban and rural parishes, Amy Nelson Burnett sheds new light on the development of the Reformed ministry. Burnett looks at how Basel's pastors were educated and what they learned, examining not only their study of theology but also their general education in languages, rhetoric, and dialectic at the city's Latin school and in the arts faculty of the university. Teaching the Reformation points to significant changes over time in the content of that education, separating Basel's pastors into distinct generations."--BOOK JACKET.

Amy Nelson Burnett is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.