Communicatio idiomatum Reformation christological debates / Richard Cross.
| Author/creator | Cross, Richard, 1964- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| Description | xxiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Series | Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology |
| Abstract | "This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the sixteenth-century Christological debates between Lutheran and Reformed theologians on the ascription of divine and human predicates to the person of the incarnate Son of God (the communicatio idiomatum). It does so by close attention to the arguments deployed by the protagonists in the discussion, and to the theologians' metaphysical and semantic assumptions, explicit and implicit. It traces the central contours of the Christological debates, from the discussion between Luther and Zwingli in the 1520s to the Colloquy of Montbe'liard in 1586. The book shows that Luther's Christology is thoroughly Medieval, and that innovations usually associated with Luther - in particular, that Christ's human nature comes to share in divine attributes - should be ascribed instead to his younger contemporary Johannes Brenz. The discussion is highly sensitive to the differences between the various Luther groups - followers of Brenz, and the different factions aligned in varying ways with Melanchthon - and to the differences between all of these and the Reformed theologians. And by locating the Christological discussions in their immediate Medieval background, the book also provides a comprehensive account of the continuities and discontinuities between the two eras. In these ways, it is shown that the standard interpretations of the Reformation debates on the matter are almost wholly mistaken"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Minimal Level Cataloging Plus. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019945693 |
| ISBN | 9780198846970 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |