Herman Speelman: Melanchthon and Calvin on Confession and Communion

Melanchthon and Calvin were late medieval people, from a world of order and unity, and at the same time they fully lived in the early modern world, in which everything was changing. In this new world they sought to introduce some order. One can hardly underestimate their innovating way in which confession, penance, the Eucharistic piety, and a persistent desire to live a Christian life received an important place in Protestant liturgy and spirituality. Their contributions continue to be highly influential in large parts of Europe today.

Herman A. Speelman examines especially Melanchthon’s important contribution to the first evangelical church visitations and Calvin’s five attempts to shape the modernisation of ecclesiastical life, and he shows how their views were connected to those of their contemporaries, and how they related to medieval practices.

Herman A. Speelman: Melanchthon and Calvin on Confession and Communion. Early Modern Protestant Penitential and Eucharistic Piety
Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS) Vol.14
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2016
362 Seiten
ISBN-13: 978-3-525-55041-0