Probing the Reformed Tradition: Historical Studies in Honor of Edward A. Dowey, Jr.

McKee, Elsie Anne

Religion & Spirituality

John Knox Pr

This book begins by posing a major problem facing the church today: What is the relationship between religious faith and social concern? How is Sunday connected to the rest of the week? Should the church care only about charity, or does it also have a responsibility for justice? Elsie McKee believes that history plays a significant role in explaining the church's sometimes-weak service to the world; she also believes that an adequate understanding of history can illuminate and guide current practice. Her Diakonia in the Classical Reformed Tradition and Today contains a wealth of historical material inviting contemporary application. After outlining the historical, theological, and social context that birthed and nurtured the Protestant understanding of service to others, McKee homes in on classical Reformed teaching regarding the diaconate. She focuses on the New Testament passages underlying John Calvin's thought and comments concisely but revealing on the place Calvin accorded to women in the church. While concentrating on the sixteenth century, the book also outlines some of the high points and difficulties in Protestant, especially Reformed, diaconal work from Calvin;s day to ours. McKee briefly discusses Diakonia in today's ecumenical church and finally suggests some practical ways in which the insights learned from history may be profitably adapted to the diaconal ministry of the church in the late twentieth century. This "popular" treatment of the Reformed diaconate is based on McKee's considerable research in that area. Ministers, educational laypersons, seminary students, Christian social workers, denominational leaders, women seeking to use their gifts more fully, and church officeholders - elders as well as deacons - will all benefit from this book.

Diakonia in the Classical Reformed Tradition and Today

Christian Books & Bibles

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

JOHN CALVIN ON THE DIACONATE AND LITURGICAL ALMSGIVING

DROZ

The life story and theological writings of Katharina Schütz Zell (1498-1562) present an unusually full picture of an urban lay woman in the Protestant Reformation. The daughter of an established artisan in the free imperial city of Strasbourg, Katharina Schütz married the reformer Matthew Zell and became a partner in one of the first Protestant 'clergy couples'. More than a pioneer pastor's wife, Schütz Zell carried out a lifelong ministry of teaching, writing, and speaking out, as well as the charitable work and hospitality traditionally expected of a woman. Part one of Volume 1 paints Schütz Zell's biography in the context of her age, part two explores the main features of her biblical theology and literary activity, giving particular attention to Schütz Zell's convictions about the ministries of women and laity. Volume 2 provides access for the first time to the literary corpus of an outstanding lay leader of the early Protestant Reformation, one of the most articulate women authors of her age. An educated Strasbourg craftswoman and pastor's wife, Katharina Schütz Zell wrote German fluently. Her works, some published in her lifetime, others preserved only in manuscript, are remarkable for their time-span (1524-1558) and the range of genres: from devotional, educational, and pastoral text to sermonic literature and theological polemic. Schütz Zell's writings reveal a lively mind, considerable Biblical knowledge, and unusual historical gifts. Her practically unknown autograph letter to Caspar Schwenckfeld is particularly important for the new light it sheds on confessionalization in the 1550's and one woman's friendly but sturdy intellectual independence.

Katharina Schutz Zell (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought) (2 Volume set) (English and German Edition)

History

Europe

BRILL

This is the second of a two-volume set providing access to the literary corpus of Katharina Schutz Zell, a lay leader of the early Protestant Reformation, and one of the most articulate women authors of her age. Her works, some published in her lifetime, others preserved only in manuscript, are remarkable for their time span (1524-1558) and range of genres - from devotional, educational and pastoral texts, to sermonic literature and theological polemic. Her practically unknown autograph letter to Caspar Schwenckfeld is particularly important for the new light it sheds on confessionalization in the 1550s and Zell's intellectual independence.

Katharina Schutz Zell (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought) (English and German Edition)

Zell, Katharina Schütz

World

Brill Academic Pub

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