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16 - Reformed Schools of Theology

from Part Two - Schools and Emerging Cultures of Theology: Diversity and Conformity within Confessions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2023

By
Carl R. Trueman
Edited by
Kenneth G Appold  and
Nelson Minnich
Kenneth G Appold
Affiliation:
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
Nelson Minnich
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

Unlike Lutheranism, the Reformed faith lacked both a central personality who gave its life and thought a distinctive shape, and a specific localized context from which it could expand. Instead, it emerged in a number of cities in Switzerland. From there it spread across Europe as it was picked up by exiles whose imaginations were captured by what they witnessed in Switzerland and who carried the theology and the ecclesiastical models of their various exile cities back to their homelands. As a result, the Reformed faith was both eclectic and variegated in its manifestations. It was also shaped intimately by the specific political conditions of the nations where it took root.1

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The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology , pp. 288 - 320
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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