Reconceiving the Clerical Corps: How Heinrich Bullinger Resists the Expectations of Confessionalization

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  • Jon Delmas Wood

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clerical identity, Reformed priesthood, humanism, eschatology, dogmatism, confessionalization, Heinrich Bullinger

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The traditional concept of priesthood aroused much interest and animosity in the Reformation. Huldrych Zwingli led efforts to expand priesthood beyond a sacramental subset of Christendom to encompass instead the sum of all the baptized. He redefined clerical identity as a humanistic/linguistic corps of “prophets.” Heinrich Bullinger shared in Zwingli’s mission to preserve a ministerial corps, and yet he found it increasingly necessary to modify the mold of “minister-as-prophet.” Bullinger carefully re-appropriated some aspects of a “priestly” identity for the clerical corps. In the process, he created a fruitful – perhaps even unique – hybrid of humanism with eschatology. The upshot was a model for church-state relations that cannot be reduced to the expectations of propositional dogmatism commonly associated with the theory of confessionalization.

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2020-11-23

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Wood, J. D. (2020). Reconceiving the Clerical Corps: How Heinrich Bullinger Resists the Expectations of Confessionalization. Zwingliana, 43, 177–192. Abgerufen von https://www.zwingliana.ch/index.php/zwa/article/view/2471

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