Calvin's Company of Pastors Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 1536-1609
Calvin's Company of Pastors Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 1536-1609
- ISBN 13:
9780190224479
- ISBN 10:
0190224479
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 02/01/2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Making extensive use of archival materials, published sermons, catechisms, prayer books, personal correspondence, and theological writings, Manetsch offers an engaging and vivid portrait of pastoral life in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Geneva, exploring the manner in which Geneva's ministers conceived of their pastoral office and performed their daily responsibilities of preaching, public worship, moral discipline, catechesis, administering the sacraments, and pastoral care. Manetsch demonstrates that Calvin and his colleagues were much more than ivory tower theologians or "quasi-agents of the state," concerned primarily with dispensing theological information to their congregations or enforcing magisterial authority. Rather, they saw themselves as spiritual shepherds of Christ's Church, and this self-understanding shaped to a significant degree their daily work as pastors and preachers.