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Article: Martin Bucer: Reforming Church and Community
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- October 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Catholic University of America Press Oct 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Martin Bucer: Reforming Church and Community. Edited by D. F. Wright. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xiv, 195. $59.95.)
Scholars have long recognized the important place held by the church in Martin Bucer's theology. This collection of essays, published to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Strasbourg reformer's birth, is an excellent introduction in English to Bucer's ecclesiology and to the related issues of the ministry, church and state, and the sacraments, both in general and individually.
Most of the thirteen scholars who contributed to this volume have been or are presently involved in producing the critical edition of Bucer's works. Their essays reflect their ...