Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter One: Print and the Reformation Crisis of Authority

Part I: Overview, Background, and Beginnings

Chapter Two: Contours of the Printed Debate
Chapter Three: Heresy and Hermeneutics: The Background to the Controversy
Chapter Four: Karlstadt's Challenge to Luther
Chapter Five: The Early Debate in Switzerland

Part II: Exchanges, 1526-1529

Chapter Six: Martin Bucer and Bugenhagen's Psalms Commentary
Chapter Seven: Oecolampadius against the Wittenbergers
Chapter Eight: Undermining Oecolampadius: the Debate with Pirckheimer
Chapter Nine: The Contributions of Zurich and Strasbourg
Chapter Ten: Print, Polemics, and Popular Response in South Germany
Chapter Eleven: The Debate Matures, 1527-1529

Part III: Gradual Developments

Chapter Twelve: The Lord's Supper in Catechetical Literature
Chapter Thirteen: Sacramentarian Diversity
Chapter Fourteen: Reconstituting Authority

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Amy Nelson Burnett is Paula and D.B. Varner University Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy, and she has written extensively on the Swiss and South German Reformation. Her book Teaching the Reformation won the Gerald Strauss prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies and Conference.

Reviews

"Burnett's focus is on the period when Protestant sacramental theology became hot topics in the 1520s. Her approach is chronological as well as wide-ranging ... This gives the book an authoritative, reference-like power that will make it the place to turn to for all future forays into this tangled topic. Her approach is also unique among other treatments of this topic since her net is wider and more nuanced than what we have had before." -- Donald K. McKim,
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
"In the current volume, Amy Burnett has managed to tackle one of the theological debates most fraught with danger and to bring new clarity to the early stages of the intra-Protestant debate over the Lord's Supper. This is no mean feat...in the future no one should dare write anything on the role of Lord's Supper in the early Reformation without taking seriously this outstanding piece of research. It is remarkable scholarship and a fitting tribute to the other
historian able to do this kind of work, her Doktorvater, the late Robert Kingdon." -- Timothy J. Wengert, United Lutheran Seminary, Comptes Rendus
"Amy Nelson Burnett is a foremost authority on the controversy over Christ's bodily presence in the Lord's Supper, which pulled apart the early Reformation in the 1520s. In this new book she successfully combines two distinct approaches, the cultural history of printed communication and the history of theological doctrines. With immense learning and superb clarity, she invites us to re-think the 'who', 'how' and 'why' behind this acrimonious debate."
--Euan Cameron, author of the European Reformation and Enchanted Europe
"This study is an instant classic, a new standard for interpreting the Protestant sacramental controversies as a whole. Burnett's exemplary contextual analysis of the unfolding series of printed exchanges that made the controversy the hottest discussion in the mid-1520s provides a rich model for assessing how published treatises could take on authoritative voice in addressing central matters of piety and practice." --Robert Kolb, Professor of Systematic
Theology Emeritus, Concordia Seminary