A Companion to the Eucharist in the Reformation
Series: - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume: 46
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By the end of the fifteenth century, the Eucharist had come to encompass theology, liturgy, art, architecture, and music. In the sixteenth century, each of these dimensions was questioned, challenged, rethought, as western European Christians divided over their central act of worship. This volume offers an introduction to early modern thinking on the Eucharist—as theology, as Christology, as a moment of human and divine communion, as that which the faithful do, as taking place, and as visible and audible. The scholars gathered in this volume speak from a range of disciplines—liturgics, history, history of art, history of theology, philosophy, musicology, and literary theory. The volume thus also brings different methods and approaches, as well as confessional orientations to a consideration of the Eucharist in the Reformation.
Contributors include: Gary Macy, Volker Leppin, Carrie Euler, Nicholas Thompson, Nicholas Wolterstorff, John D. Rempel, James F. Turrell, Robert J. Daly, Isabelle Brian, Thomas Schattauer, Raymond A. Mentzer, Michele Zelinsky Hanson, Jaime Lara, Andrew Spicer, Achim Timmermann, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Andreas Gormans, Alexander J. Fisher, Regina M. Schwartz, and Christopher Wild.
Contributors include: Gary Macy, Volker Leppin, Carrie Euler, Nicholas Thompson, Nicholas Wolterstorff, John D. Rempel, James F. Turrell, Robert J. Daly, Isabelle Brian, Thomas Schattauer, Raymond A. Mentzer, Michele Zelinsky Hanson, Jaime Lara, Andrew Spicer, Achim Timmermann, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Andreas Gormans, Alexander J. Fisher, Regina M. Schwartz, and Christopher Wild.
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Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.D. (1985) in History, University of Michigan, is Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin. Her most recent book is The Reformation: Towards a New History, (Cambridge, 2011).
“Wandel’s volume is a valuable contribution to the corpus of knowledge concerning the development of the Eucharist in the Reformation. She brings together a collection of essays which enable scholarly access and accessible scholarship to a variety of topics pertinent to the study of the Eucharist in the Reformation.” - Adrian Burdon, Methodist Church in Britain, in: Reviews in Religion & Theology 21.3 (2014), pp. 419-422
“This volume is well organized and offers a solid introduction to the theology and practice of the Eucharist in the early modern period. It will be of use to students and scholars of the sixteenth-century Reformation.” - John T. Slotemaker, Fairfield University, in: Religious Studies Review 41.2 (June 2015), p. 87
“This volume provides an introduction to competing understandings of the Eucharist and the consequences for liturgical practice and the arts extending into the eighteenth century. It is self-consciously interdisciplinary, with contributions by theologians, historians, art historians, musicologists, and literary scholars. The volume invites comparison among the Christian traditions, with articles devoted not only to the Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed churches, but also to Anglicans and Anabaptists. … the essays here … stimulate readers to think beyond traditional approaches to the study of the Eucharist in the Reformation.” - Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in: Renaissance Quarterly 67.3 (Fall 2014), pp. 1032-1033
“This splendid volume does not try to construct a “single history” but “seeks to render something of the protean heterogeneity of early modern thinking – in texts written and sung, images, objects, architecture, music, and practices – on the Eucharist”. It well succeeds!” - Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee, in: Sixteenth Century Journal 46.1 (2015), pp. 157-159
“A panoramic, yet precise, view of how the doctrines and experiences of the Eucharist changed during the Reformation. […] This volume presents the reader with the latest findings of scholarship on the standard personalities and traditions involved in the Reformation, but also extends the discussion to include several areas of research that have historically not received much attention. [...] Together with the essays on aesthetics, music, and architecture, the book ultimately gives us a more “human” perspective on the Eucharist in the Reformation, and should be a welcome addition to any university or seminary library.” - Gregory Soderberg, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in: Journal of Reformed Theology 9.2 (2015), pp. 209-210
“Den Anspruch auf Unverzichtbarkeit für eine ernsthafte Beschäftigung mit der Theologie der Reformationszeit und ihren gesellschaftlichen Folgen sowie auf Nützlichkeit im ökumenischen Dialog darf das Buch ohne weiteres erheben.” - Bernward Schmidt, Institut für Katholische Theologie, RWTH Aachen, in: H-Soz-Kult, 03.03.2016
“Ce volume de la prestigieuse collection, qui compte aujourd’hui près de soixante volumes, offre un bon instrument de travail pour se repérer dans la diversité des compréhensions de l’eucharistie au temps des Réformes.” - Michel Mallèvre, in: ISTINA, LX (2015), p. 144
“This volume is well organized and offers a solid introduction to the theology and practice of the Eucharist in the early modern period. It will be of use to students and scholars of the sixteenth-century Reformation.” - John T. Slotemaker, Fairfield University, in: Religious Studies Review 41.2 (June 2015), p. 87
“This volume provides an introduction to competing understandings of the Eucharist and the consequences for liturgical practice and the arts extending into the eighteenth century. It is self-consciously interdisciplinary, with contributions by theologians, historians, art historians, musicologists, and literary scholars. The volume invites comparison among the Christian traditions, with articles devoted not only to the Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed churches, but also to Anglicans and Anabaptists. … the essays here … stimulate readers to think beyond traditional approaches to the study of the Eucharist in the Reformation.” - Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in: Renaissance Quarterly 67.3 (Fall 2014), pp. 1032-1033
“This splendid volume does not try to construct a “single history” but “seeks to render something of the protean heterogeneity of early modern thinking – in texts written and sung, images, objects, architecture, music, and practices – on the Eucharist”. It well succeeds!” - Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee, in: Sixteenth Century Journal 46.1 (2015), pp. 157-159
“A panoramic, yet precise, view of how the doctrines and experiences of the Eucharist changed during the Reformation. […] This volume presents the reader with the latest findings of scholarship on the standard personalities and traditions involved in the Reformation, but also extends the discussion to include several areas of research that have historically not received much attention. [...] Together with the essays on aesthetics, music, and architecture, the book ultimately gives us a more “human” perspective on the Eucharist in the Reformation, and should be a welcome addition to any university or seminary library.” - Gregory Soderberg, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in: Journal of Reformed Theology 9.2 (2015), pp. 209-210
“Den Anspruch auf Unverzichtbarkeit für eine ernsthafte Beschäftigung mit der Theologie der Reformationszeit und ihren gesellschaftlichen Folgen sowie auf Nützlichkeit im ökumenischen Dialog darf das Buch ohne weiteres erheben.” - Bernward Schmidt, Institut für Katholische Theologie, RWTH Aachen, in: H-Soz-Kult, 03.03.2016
“Ce volume de la prestigieuse collection, qui compte aujourd’hui près de soixante volumes, offre un bon instrument de travail pour se repérer dans la diversité des compréhensions de l’eucharistie au temps des Réformes.” - Michel Mallèvre, in: ISTINA, LX (2015), p. 144
List of Figures, List of Contributors, and List of Key Names
Introduction
Lee Palmer Wandel
PART ONE: THEOLOGY
The Medieval Inheritance
Gary Macy
Martin Luther
Volker Leppin
Huldrych Zwingli and Heinrich Bullinger
Carrie Euler
Martin Bucer
Nicholas Thompson
John Calvin
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Anabaptist Theologies of the Eucharist
John D. Rempel
Anglican Theologies of the Eucharist
James F. Turrell
The Council of Trent
Robert J. Daly, S.J.
PART TWO: LITURGICAL PRACTICES
Catholic
Isabelle Brian
Lutheran
Thomas Schattauer
Reformed
Raymond A. Mentzer
Anabaptist
Michele Zelinsky Hanson
Anglican
James F. Turrell
The Spanish New World
Jaime Lara
PART THREE: SITES OF THE EUCHARIST
Sites of the Eucharist
Andrew Spicer
PART FOUR: THE ART OF THE LITURGY
A View of the Eucharist on the Eve of the Reformation
Achim Timmermann
Lutheran
Birgit Ulrike Münch
Reformed
Andreas Gormans
PART FIVE: THE EUCHARIST AND SOUND
The Sounds of Eucharistic Culture
Alexander J. Fisher
PART SIX: THE IMPORT OF THE EUCHARIST
Sacramental Poetics
Regina M. Schwartz
Enlightenment Aesthetics and the Eucharistic Sign: Lessing’s Laocoön
Christopher Wild
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Lee Palmer Wandel
PART ONE: THEOLOGY
The Medieval Inheritance
Gary Macy
Martin Luther
Volker Leppin
Huldrych Zwingli and Heinrich Bullinger
Carrie Euler
Martin Bucer
Nicholas Thompson
John Calvin
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Anabaptist Theologies of the Eucharist
John D. Rempel
Anglican Theologies of the Eucharist
James F. Turrell
The Council of Trent
Robert J. Daly, S.J.
PART TWO: LITURGICAL PRACTICES
Catholic
Isabelle Brian
Lutheran
Thomas Schattauer
Reformed
Raymond A. Mentzer
Anabaptist
Michele Zelinsky Hanson
Anglican
James F. Turrell
The Spanish New World
Jaime Lara
PART THREE: SITES OF THE EUCHARIST
Sites of the Eucharist
Andrew Spicer
PART FOUR: THE ART OF THE LITURGY
A View of the Eucharist on the Eve of the Reformation
Achim Timmermann
Lutheran
Birgit Ulrike Münch
Reformed
Andreas Gormans
PART FIVE: THE EUCHARIST AND SOUND
The Sounds of Eucharistic Culture
Alexander J. Fisher
PART SIX: THE IMPORT OF THE EUCHARIST
Sacramental Poetics
Regina M. Schwartz
Enlightenment Aesthetics and the Eucharistic Sign: Lessing’s Laocoön
Christopher Wild
Bibliography
Index
All those interested in the history of Christianity, the liturgies of Western Christianity, the Reformation, theology and the arts.