Book contents
- John Calvin in Context
- John Calvin in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I France and Its Influence
- Part II Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Geneva
- Part III Empire and Society
- Part IV The Religious Question
- 19 Western Ideals of Religious Reform
- 20 The Luther Affair
- 21 Religious Colloquies
- 22 The Council of Trent and the Augsburg Interim
- 23 Biblical Scholarship
- 24 The Printed Word
- 25 Polemic’s Purpose
- 26 The Style of Theology
- 27 Baptism
- 28 The Eucharist
- 29 Predestination in Early Modern Thought
- 30 The Challenge of Heresy
- 31 Early Modern Christianity and Idolatry
- 32 Trinitarian Controversies
- 33 Nicodemism and Libertinism
- Part V Calvin’s Influences
- Part VI Calvin’s Reception
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
21 - Religious Colloquies
from Part IV - The Religious Question
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2019
- John Calvin in Context
- John Calvin in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I France and Its Influence
- Part II Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Geneva
- Part III Empire and Society
- Part IV The Religious Question
- 19 Western Ideals of Religious Reform
- 20 The Luther Affair
- 21 Religious Colloquies
- 22 The Council of Trent and the Augsburg Interim
- 23 Biblical Scholarship
- 24 The Printed Word
- 25 Polemic’s Purpose
- 26 The Style of Theology
- 27 Baptism
- 28 The Eucharist
- 29 Predestination in Early Modern Thought
- 30 The Challenge of Heresy
- 31 Early Modern Christianity and Idolatry
- 32 Trinitarian Controversies
- 33 Nicodemism and Libertinism
- Part V Calvin’s Influences
- Part VI Calvin’s Reception
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
One of the most important legacies of the Protestant Reformation was the splintering of the western Catholic Church into competing confessions. Protestants introduced permanent schisms into Latin Christendom, both between Protestants and Catholics and amongst Protestants. But even as these divides began to form in the sixteenth century, earnest theologians and rulers, both Protestant and Catholic, sought to reverse and heal them, hoping to recover the unity among Christians for which Christ had prayed (John 17:21). John Calvin participated in a number of these religious colloquies, or formal conversations about contested theological issues. He was present at colloquies in Hagenau (summer 1540), Worms (autumn 1540), and Regensburg (January 1541), although he was more interested in unity among Protestants than between Protestants and Catholics.1 Such colloquies, which were supposed to be cordial in nature, should be distinguished from disputations, where the goal was to prove the truth of one’s position against all claims to the contrary. The English word colloquy comes from the Latin colloquor: to talk together or hold conversation. The goal of Reformation-era religious colloquies was not to arrive at complete uniformity of belief and practice, rather, it was to determine where reconciliation on matters of belief and practice might be possible.
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- John Calvin in Context , pp. 183 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019