Church Mother The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Name: Church Mother The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Germany
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ISBN: 9780226979670

ISBN-10: 0226979679

ISBN-13: 9780226979670

Edition: 2006

Authors: Katharina Schutz Zell, Elsie McKee

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Imbued with character and independence, strength and articulateness, humor and conviction, abundant biblical knowledge and intense compassion, Katharina Schutz Zell (1498-1562) was an outspoken religious reformer in sixteenth-century Germany who campaigned for the right of clergy to marry and the responsibility of lay people--women as well as men--to proclaim the Gospel. As one of the first and most daring models of the pastor's wife in the Protestant Reformation, Schutz Zell demonstrated that she could be an equal partner in marriage; she was for many years a respected, if unofficial, mother of the established church of Strasbourg in an age when ecclesiastical leadership was dominated by…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Series Editors' Introduction


Volume Editor's Introduction


Volume Editor's Bibliography


Note on Translation



The Lay Reformer, Teacher, and Pastor


Introduction


Letter to the Suffering Women of the Community of Kentzingen


Introduction


Translation


Katharina Schutz's Apologia for Master Matthew Zell, Her Husband


Introduction


Translation


Some Christian and Comforting Songs of Praise about Jesus Christ Our Savior


Introduction


Translation


Lament and Exhortation of Katharina Zell to the People at the Grave of Master Matthew Zell


Introduction


Translation


The Miserere Psalm Meditated, Prayed, and Paraphrased with King David by Katharina Zell ..., Sent to the Christian Man Sir Felix Armbruster


Introduction


Translation



Autobiography and Polemic: A Lay Theologian Amid the Conflicts of Confessional Divisions


Introduction


To Sir Caspar Schwenckfeld


Introduction


Translation


A Letter to the Whole Citizenship of the City of Strasbourg from Katharina Zell, ... concerning Mr. Ludwig Rabus


Introduction


Translation



Letter of Ludwig Rabus to Katharina Schutz Zell (April 1557)


Series Editors' Bibliography


Index