The Body Broken : The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France
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Hardback or Cased Book
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
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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.
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