The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France

by Christopher Elwood

In the public religious controversies of sixteenth-century France, no subject received more attention or provoked greater passion that the eucharist. In this study of Reformation theologies of the eucharist, Christopher Elwood contends that the doctrine for which French Protestants argued played a pivotal role in the development of Calvinist revolutionary politics. By focusing on the new understandings of signs and symbols purveyed in Protestant writing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195121333
• ISBN13: 9780195121339
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"