Maps and Illustrations
Chronology
Introduction
On the Recipients, Signs, and Promise of the Holy Sacrament (June 1521)
On the Adoration and Veneration of the Signs of the New Testament (November 1521)
On Both Forms in the Holy Mass (November 1521)
Sermon of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt Given in Wittenberg on the Reception of the Holy Sacrament (January 1522)
On the Priesthood and Sacrifice of Christ (December 1523/January 1524)
Against the Old and New Papistic Masses (October 1524)
Whether One Can Prove from Holy Scripture That Christ Is in the Sacrament with Body, Blood, and Soul (October 1524)
Exegesis of This Word of Christ: “This Is My Body, Which Is Given for You. This Is My Blood, Which Is Shed for You,” Luke 22 (October 1524)
Dialogue, or a Discussion Booklet on the Horrible and Idolatrous Misuse of the Most Worthy Sacrament of Jesus Christ, 1524 (October 1524)
On the Anti-Christian Abuse of the Lord’s Bread and Cup (October 1524)
Explanation of 1 Corinthians 10: “The Bread That We Break, Is It Not a Fellowship of the Body of Christ?” Answer of Andreas Karlstadt to Luther’s Book, and How Karlstadt Recants (March 1525)
On the New and Old Testament. Answer to the Saying, “The cup, the new testament in my blood,” etc., Luke 22; 1 Cor. 11. How Karlstadt Recants. 1525 (April 1525)
A Declaration of How Karlstadt Regards His Teaching about the Venerable Sacrament et cetera and Wants It to Be Regarded (September 1525)
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Amy Nelson Burnett is professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She specializes in the Swiss/South German Reformation and is the author of The Yoke of Christ: Martin Bucer and Christian Discipline (1994) and Teaching the Reformation: Minister and their Message in Basel, 1529–1629 (2006), which won the Gerald Strauss Prize.
Amy Nelson Burnett is professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She specializes in the Swiss/South German Reformation and is the author of The Yoke of Christ: Martin Bucer and Christian Discipline (1994) and Teaching the Reformation: Minister and their Message in Basel, 1529–1629 (2006), which won the Gerald Strauss Prize.
“Andreas Karlstadt, Luther’s senior colleague at Wittenberg, may
well be the most misunderstood reformer of the sixteenth
century—even though there are others, perhaps even Martin Luther,
who vie for such dubious honor.Karlstadt’s cardinal sin was to have
opposed Luther—and that at the critical initial stage of the
Reformation, and Luther’s judgment has dominated the scholarly
assessments of Karlstadt’s theology ever since. More recently,
however, a more detached perspective has pointed out how Karlstadt
was in many ways a trailblazer: he understood the theological and
ecclesiastical implications of the new “Wittenberg Theology” better
than most. And modified it. That certainly was the case with
respect to the implications of Luther’s redefinition of the
sacrament and his repudiation of the scholastic notion of
transubstantiation.Professor Nelson’s English translation of
several Karlstadt tracts is therefore a superb and most welcome
contribution. The translation is accurate, the scholarly apparatus
appropriate, the bibliography helpful. The book will allow English
speaking students of the Reformation to study firsthand the
theological details of the early stage of the controversy in the
reformers’ ranks over Communion from Karlstadt’s perspective, and
thereby understand better the early dynamics of the broader
movement of reform.”—Hans Hillerbrand
“No less an achievement in view of Karlstadt’s often obscure German
is Burnett’s masterful translation of thirteen key Eucharistic
pamphlets into English—thus enabling scholars and students to read
them side-by-side with Luther’s and Zwingli’s contemporaneous
writings on the same topic and thus come to a more complete
understanding of this key inner-Protestant dispute.”—Stephen E.
Buckwalter Religious Studies Review
“Burnett has also published a set of her own English translations
of the eucharistic pamphlets of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt,
the early reformer in Wittenberg who fell out with Luther over the
eucharist and whose critical role in the controversy and in the
development of Reformed eucharistic theology has not, according to
Burnett, been properly recognised.... [this volume allows scholars]
the opportunity to follow through with their own analysis of many
of the primary sources.”—Journal of Ecclesiastical History
“Finally audiences in English can hear the other voice in the
debates over the Eucharist.… Burnett’s facility with early modern
German is impressive and the translations are both faithful to the
original and very readable in English. She helpfully provides a
full provenance for each pamphlet and even keeps track of the
original publication folios in brackets…a welcome addition to our
knowledge and understanding of Eucharistic theology in the
Reformation era.”—Renaissance Quarterly
“[Burnett] provides documentation of the reformer's actual
opinions, translating thirteen works by Karlstadt on the topic of
the Eucharist and providing the translations with informative
footnotes. Most are polemics—and only a few have appeared
previously in English; but Burnett has wisely chosen to include a
sermon delivered in 1522 to illustrate how the reformer's ideas
were taken into the pulpit. The English versions are readable
allowing for the reformer's relentless denunciations of contrary
opinions. The translations are accompanied by a lucid introduction,
providing contexts for the texts, as well as a chronology of
evangelical writings on the topic.”—Sixteenth Century Journal
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