The Body Broken : The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France

Name: The Body Broken
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195121339
Price: 21200 KES
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780195121339

by Christopher Elwood

Book Details

Format Hardback

Book Series Oxford Studies in Historical Theology

ISBN-10 0195121333

ISBN-13 9780195121339

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 18th, 1999

Print length 272 Pages

Weight 513 grams

Dimensions 23.60 x 16.10 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: European history Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches Christian theology

KSh 21,200.00

Temporarily out of stock, due soon 0 in stock

Delivery Location

County

Location

Delivery fee: Select location

Secure

Quality

Fast

Examines the disputes about the eucharist that were carried out in the popular press in 16th-century France. This book focuses on the way in which power is symbolized in eucharistic doctrine, and how representations of power in the context of theological discussion influenced understandings of power in other spheres of life.

This study of controversy over the eucharist in sixteenth-century France argues that Calvinist interpretations of the Lord''s Supper played a crucial role in the development of early modern revolutionary politics. Focusing on new understandings of signs and symbols conveyed in Protestant eucharistic writings, Elwood shows how eucharistic doctrine facilitated new conceptions of the nature of power and the relation between society and the sacred and contributed to the development of the divergent religious, social, and political ideals that threatened to destroy France in the second half of the sixteenth century.

Get The Body Broken by Christopher Elwood at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Oxford University Press Inc and it has 272 pages.