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Martin Bucer (1491–1551) was one of the most important sixteenth-century Reformers, who became leader of the Reformed Churches in Switzerland and South Germany after the death of Zwingli. An international team of specialists on Bucer (several of them involved in the new critical edition of his works) highlight his contribution in thought and practice to building the community of the Church - in Strasbourg, but also elsewhere in Europe, and in England, where he spent the last years of his life in Cambridge. The issues raised emphasise Bucer’s distinctiveness, as a Reformer of the Church and its ordered life, as well as raising matters of contemporary significance, such as Church-state relations, Protestant–Catholic unity, and tensions between a church of true believers and a ‘people’s’ church.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1344974 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 212 pages

Review
‘This fine collection...instructive, absorbing, and well presented …’ English Churchman

Customer Reviews

An introduction to an excellent theologian and pastor.
Martin Bucer is a Reformation figure who has been overlooked and this book helps to correct the neglect of a warm, thoughtful, and influential man of the Christian faith. Books about his ecclesiology are very few, and this title provides some quality essays by those who obviously have some detailed interest and insight to Bucer's theology and church practise.

These essays span topics as diverse as baptism; church discipline; Bucer's influence on John Calvin; and his time in England at the request of Thomas Cranmer before his death. Bucer was an insightful man, and his commentaries show also how his thinking developed. And he lived and worked right at the heart of the European Reformation, so this book reveals his contribution to the debates and issues of this most fascinating and challenging time in the church's history since Apostolic times.