Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation 1378-1615

Backus, Irena Dorota

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ISBN 10: 9004129286 ISBN 13: 9789004129283

Casa editrice: Brill Academic Pub, 2003

This work substantially revises existing preconceptions about Reformation attitudes to the Early Church and to History in general. On the basis of much hitherto unstudied material the author shows that Reformation historians and theologians sought to define their confessional identity by recourse to a particular historical method.

L'autore:

Irena Backus, D.Phil.(1976), Oxford University, Dr. theol. hab. (1988), University of Berne, Hon. D.D. (2001), University of Edinburgh, is Professor of Reformation History at the University of Geneva. She has published extensively on history of Biblical Exegesis and on the reception of the Church Fathers in the West. Her publications include The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West (Brill, 1997) and Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse (2001).