Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich
Author:   Theodore M. Vial
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   4
ISBN:  

9780415966986


Pages:   212
Publication Date:   01 December 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Theodore M. Vial
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9780415966986


ISBN 10:   0415966981
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   01 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Religious Conflict in Zurich; Chapter 2 Contesting Humanity and Contesting History; Chapter 3 The Personality of God and Other Contradictions; Chapter 4 What Would Jesus Do?; Chapter 5 Meta Fights; Chapter 6 Liturgy Wars, Culture Wars;

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""Connecting historical theology with ritual theory, Theodore M. Vial's well-written and stimulating book analyzes this liturgy war, which ended, in 1868, with a stalemate: the adoption of two baptismal rites...Vial's book presses an important point of discussion between those scholars who emphasize practice and those who search for a cognitive theory of ritual."" -- The Journalof Religion


Connecting historical theology with ritual theory, Theodore M. Vial's well-written and stimulating book analyzes this liturgy war, which ended, in 1868, with a stalemate: the adoption of two baptismal rites....Vial's book presses an important point of discussion between those scholars who emphasize practice and those who search for a cognitive theory of ritual. <br>- The Journal of Religion <br>


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Theodore M. Vial is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Wesleyan College. He has published in Numen and the Harvard Theological Review. He co-edited Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor ofWendell S. Dietrich, and contributed the chapter on ""Church and State in Schleiermacher's Thought"" to TheCambridge Companion to FriedrichSchleiermacher. Series Editors: Frank Reynolds and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

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