Consciences and the Reformation: Scruples over Oaths and Confessions in the Era of Calvin and His Contemporaries (OXFORD STU IN HISTORICAL THEOLOGY SERIES)

Cover\nSeries\nConsciences and the Reformation\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nAcknowledgments\nAbbreviations\nNotes on Translation and Texts\nIntroduction\nSection I: Calvin and the Reformers’ Inherited Legal Tradition\n	1. Before Calvin: Oaths, Religious Coercion, and the Freedom of Conscience from the Medieval Church to the Reformation\nSection II: Answering Conscientious Objectors: Calvin and the Reformers  against Radical Dissent and  Religious Compromise\n	2. Conscience, Confession, and the Consolidation of Early Public Reform in Strasbourg, 1530–​1535\n	3. “Vera pietas veram confessionem parit”: Confession,  Conscience, and Charity in the Anti-​Nicodemism of  Calvin and the Reformers\n	4. Confession, Conscience, and Christian Freedom in the  Later Anti-​Nicodemite Writings of Calvin and the  Reformers, 1540–​1562\nSection III: Oaths, Confessional Subscription, and the Binding of the Conscience in Reformation Geneva\n	5. Citizen’s Oath and Confession of Faith in Reformation Geneva, 1536–​1538: Necessary, Indifferent, or a Tertium Quid?\n	6. “Make Them Afraid of Bearing False Witness”: Oaths, Conscience, and Discipline in the Registers of the Genevan Consistory, 1541–​1564\n	7. After Calvin: Oaths, Subscription, Conscience, and  Compromise in the Genevan Academy, 1559–​1612\nConclusion\nBibliography\nIndex