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This book explores conflicts in Augsburg, Germany during the first decade of the Protestant Reformation over the meaning and celebration of the Eucharist. Seeking to account for the strong appeal among the population of a symbolic interpretation of the Eucharist, it situates the theological debate in the context of conflict between guild members and the leading citizens in the city council over perceived growing political authoritarianism and the political future of the city, and between artisans and powerful merchant elites over changing economic realities of the early-modern economy. The author argues that the adoption of a symbolic interpretation of the Eucharist formed part of a broader anti-mediational ideology that its supporters applied in the realms of politics, economics, and religion.
Price: $186.00
Pages: 270
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
Publication Date:
09 December 2011
ISBN: 9789004216983
Format: Hardcover
“[Van Amberg] posits a new, dynamic definition of the commune. This is a daring and imaginative book; it’s impact should be felt for some time.”
Geoffrey Dipple, Augustana College. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2013), pp. 625-626.
“[Van Amberg’s] book offers a new way of approaching the Eucharistic controversy in one particular geographic and socioeconomic location and helps explain the popular appeal of a Zwinglian/sacramentarian understanding of the Lord’s Supper.”
Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 282-283.
Geoffrey Dipple, Augustana College. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2013), pp. 625-626.
“[Van Amberg’s] book offers a new way of approaching the Eucharistic controversy in one particular geographic and socioeconomic location and helps explain the popular appeal of a Zwinglian/sacramentarian understanding of the Lord’s Supper.”
Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 282-283.
Joel Van Amberg, Ph.D. (2004) in History, The University of Arizona is Associate Professor of History at Tusculum College.