Women around Calvin

This article analyzes "Calvin's concept of the role of women in family and church. The Reformation opened the door for participatory relationships between women and men, but at the same time it closed this door.", in: Calvin Global. How Faith influences Societies, Introduction, by Christoph Stueckelberger and Reinhold Bernhardt, p. 14

‘Semipelagianism': The Origins of the Term and its Passage into the History of Heresy

The term ‘Semipelagianism' is usually taken to refer to fifth- and sixth-century teachings of Hadrumetum and Massilian monks. The term originated, however, with sixteenth-century Protestants who used it to describe a view of salvation by human effort in combination with grace. Theodore Beza invented the term in about 1556, applying it to the Roman Catholic view of grace and human will. The Lutheran Formula of Concord (1577) used it to designate Lutheran synergists. Initially, therefore, the term referred to contemporaneous teachings. Starting with Nicholas Sanders (1571), however, Roman Catholics introduced a shift of meaning, with fifth-century Massilians becoming the central connotatio

‘Semipelagianism': The Origins of the Term and its Passage into the History of Heresy

The term ‘Semipelagianism' is usually taken to refer to fifth- and sixth-century teachings of Hadrumetum and Massilian monks. The term originated, however, with sixteenth-century Protestants who used it to describe a view of salvation by human effort in combination with grace. Theodore Beza invented the term in about 1556, applying it to the Roman Catholic view of grace and human will. The Lutheran Formula of Concord (1577) used it to designate Lutheran synergists. Initially, therefore, the term referred to contemporaneous teachings. Starting with Nicholas Sanders (1571), however, Roman Catholics introduced a shift of meaning, with fifth-century Massilians becoming the central connotatio

Urszula Szulakowska, The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom. Alchemy and Apocalyptic Discourse in the Protestant Reformation

L'auteur se donne pour but de situer l'alchimie, la médecine et la physiologie dans le cadre du discours apocalyptique à l'époque de la Réforme. Cette démarche donne lieu à quelques comparaisons assez frappantes, comme la confrontation de la doctrine alchimique sur la perfectibilité de la matière première à la doctrine chrétienne du salut par le sacrifice du Christ symbolisé par la messe. De telles comparaisons sont convaincantes mais ne comportent aucun élément apocalyptique. En effet, on no..