Making Use of God's Remedies: Negotiating the Material Care of Children in Reformation Geneva

Spierling, Karen E.

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“…Here it is important to mention the respectful contributions of Willam E. Monter (1974Monter ( :1023Monter ( −1033Monter ( , 1976), Robert M. Kingdon (1972Kingdon ( :114-131, 1990Kingdon ( :158-172, 1995Kingdon ( , 1996eds. Kingdon & Witte 2005), William G. Naphy (2002aNaphy ( , 2002bNaphy ( :94−111, 2003, Karen E. Spierling (2005Spierling ( :785-807, 2010, Jeffrey R. Watt (1993Watt ( :429-439, 1996Watt ( :63-86, 2002Watt ( :439-456, 2020 and Scott Manetsch (2005Manetsch ( :1-21, 2006Manetsch ( :274-314, 2010Manetsch ( :283-307, 2017, whose basic intention was to investigate the operation of the Genevan civil and church administration with special emphasis on the consistorial To be sure, the more productive field of the international research on Protestantism is related to the subject of social history. In the case of the Calvin studies, for instance, readers will see, much has been written about the operation of the Genevan civil-church administration, consistorial discipline, sexual sins and family-marital life.…”

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Fornication and adultery in the city of Debrecen (1547–1625) compared with the morality of Geneva

Magyar

2023

Verbum et Ecclesia

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To be sure, the more productive field of the international research on Protestantism is related to the subject of social history. In the case of the Calvin studies, for instance, readers will see, much has been written about the operation of the Genevan civil-church administration, consistorial discipline, sexual sins, and family-marital life. Their authors’ outstanding effort was to consult with the original manuscripts of the Genevan Archives. However, the early generations of Protestant preachers not only in Western, but in Central East Europe were trying to commit everything to renew the public morality of people, still the illumination of the Hungarian pastors’ views on the new spiritual and religious dimensions of family life, is still a neglected part of the research. Consequently, it would be interesting to scrutinize, for instance, the public morality related to the sexual crimes of local townsfolk of the city of Debrecen which apparently was the center of the Hungarian Reformation since 1562/63. Doing so, the present research deals with the operation of the law court, the number of cases, the crimes, and motives represented in the Registers of the Magistracy of Debrecen during the period of 1547–1625. Figures and statistics presented by the article point out how important was the practice of forgiveness in the religious life in Debrecen. It is taken for granted that the main results of the study permit to take a brief comparison of the sexual morality of the two Calvinist towns, namely: Debrecen and Geneva.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article is based on the field of systematic theology. The study offers an attempt to understand sexual sins/crimes in their 16th and 17th century theological, judicial, and historical context.

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Fornication and adultery in the city of Debrecen (1547–1625) compared with the morality of Geneva

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2023

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Women and Consistorial Discipline: The Case of Courthézon in the Early Seventeenth Century

Meyer¹

2019

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This study seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of both the Reformed church consistory and women's experience of the Reformation by examining the interactions between the Reformed church consistory and women in the small French town of Courthézon. For the period from 1617 to 1631, it analyzes how the consistory treated women in its exercise of discipline and how women in turn treated the consistory. It examines in-depth a number of cases of women summoned by the consistory for various offenses, including quarreling, dancing, marital and sexual relations, and absence from services. The interactions were complex and suggest that both male patriarchy and female agency were at work. Yet the consistory also treated the two sexes similarly in certain instances. Women demonstrated a remarkable capacity to ignore, negotiate with, and on occasion defy the consistory. One extraordinary woman rejected the consistory's authority altogether when pressed to reconcile. The cases also indicate that the process of consistorial discipline aided women by providing opportunities for them to represent and act for themselves. The consistory was guided by a desire to keep its minority community intact: it showed remarkable patience, forbearance, and a willingness to compromise in its efforts, and it consequently was usually successful.

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Childhood, Youth and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England

Underwood¹

2014

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Making Use of God's Remedies: Negotiating the Material Care of Children in Reformation Geneva

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Fornication and adultery in the city of Debrecen (1547–1625) compared with the morality of Geneva

Fornication and adultery in the city of Debrecen (1547–1625) compared with the morality of Geneva

Women and Consistorial Discipline: The Case of Courthézon in the Early Seventeenth Century

Childhood, Youth and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England

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