Consciences and the Reformation Scruples over Oaths and Confessions in the Era of Calvin and His Contemporaries

by Scheuers, Timothy R.

• ISBN13: 9780197692141
• ISBN10: 0197692141
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780197692158
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-08-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Timothy R. Scheuers received his PhD in Historical Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2021. He is presently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Providence Christian College (Pasadena, CA), and the Associate Pastor of First United Reformed Church (Chino, CA). Scheuers' research and publications have focused on the theology and pastoral ministry of John Calvin, as well as various loci of systematic theology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes on Translation and Texts
Introduction

Section One: Calvin and the Reformers' Inherited Legal Tradition

Chapter 1: Before Calvin: Oaths, Religious Coercion, and the Freedom of Conscience from the Medieval Church to the Reformation

Section Two: Answering Conscientious Objectors: Calvin and the Reformers Against Radical Dissent and Religious Compromise

Chapter 2: Conscience, Confession, and the Consolidation of Early Public Reform in Strasbourg, 1530-1535

Chapter 3: "Vera pietas veram confessionem parit": Confession, Conscience, and Charity in the Anti-Nicodemism of Calvin and the Reformers

Chapter 4: Confession, Conscience, and Christian Freedom in the Later Anti-Nicodemite Writings of Calvin and the Reformers, 1540-1562

Section Three: Oaths, Confessional Subscription, and the Binding of the Conscience in Reformation Geneva

Chapter 5: Citizen's Oath and Confession of Faith in Reformation Geneva, 1536-1538: Necessary, indifferent, or a tertium quid?

Chapter 6: "Make Them Afraid of Bearing False Witness": Oaths, Conscience, and Discipline in the Registers of the Genevan Consistory, 1541-1564

Chapter 7: After Calvin: Oaths, Subscription, Conscience, and Compromise in the Genevan Academy, 1559-1612

Conclusion
Bibliography