Table of Contents

Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Martin Bucer and the Old Church Peter Matheson; 2. The relation between church and civil community in Bucer's reforming work Martin Greschat; 3. Bucer's influence on Calvin: church and community Willem van't Spijker; 4. The church in Bucer's Commentaries on the Epistle to the Ephesians Peter Stephens; 5. Church, communion and community in Bucer's Commentary on the Gospel of John Irena Backus; 6. Church communion between Christ and believers: impulses and directions in Martin Bucer's Thought Ian Hazlett; 7. Martin Bucer and the Ministry of the Church James Kittelson; 8. Infant baptism and the Christian community in Bucer D. F. Wright; 9. Bucer's ecclesiology in the colloquies with the catholics, 1540–1541 Cornelis Augustijn; 10. The Strasbourg kirchenpfleger and parish discipline Jean Rott; 11. Ecclesiological motives behind the creation of the 'Christlichen Gemeinschaften' Gottfried Hamann; 12. Martin Bucer in England Basil Hall; 13. Martin Bucer and the Englishing of the psalms: pseudonymity in the service of the early English protestant piety Gerald Hobbs; Bibliography; Indexes.

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