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SUMMARY:'Catholicity and Consensus: A Swiss Solution' - Joel Love\, Westco
 tt House
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CONTACT:Daniel Jonah Wolpert
DESCRIPTION:In the mid-1520s\, the city of Zürich found itself under poli
 tical pressure from other members of the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft unhappy w
 ith the city's reformation and attempts to expand its religious and politi
 cal influence into other Swiss territories. The Baden disputation of 1526 
 was an attempt to resolve this crisis\, as was the flurry of polemical pam
 phlets that surrounded it.  \n\nZürich objected to the charge of heresy a
 nd 'Lutheranism'\, and these are addressed by Utz Eckstein\, a polemicist 
 for the Evangelical side\, who distances the local reformation from both L
 uther and the radicals. As a result\, indulgences and the papacy recede fr
 om view\, to be replaced by fasting\, baptism\, and Eucharist. These are t
 reated in a moderate tone\, quite different from that found in other Germa
 n-language reformation polemics.\n\nAt the heart of Eckstein's presentatio
 n is the problem of authority. He acknowledges that scripture alone is cap
 able of more than one interpretation\, and deploys two 'catholic' solution
 s to the hermeneutical impasse\, in the form of tradition and conciliar au
 thority (hence the title of his 1525 pamphlet\, the Concilium). Tradition 
 and council represent the consensus of the Church in history and in the pr
 esent. Consensus is a particularly well-suited model for the sixteenth-cen
 tury Swiss context\, where authority resided in city and village councils\
 , and constantly had to be negotiated rather than imposed from above. \n\n
 This paper will therefore argue that Zwingli's Zürich reformation present
 s itself as a catholic solution to catholic problems\, reached by seeking 
 consensus throughout the broadest possible geographical area.
LOCATION:Grad Seminar Rm\, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg.\, Sidgwick Site
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