Title:

“This is the Good Shepherd”s Fold” : the Notion of the “genuine” Church in Sixteenth-Century Polish Catechisms

Subtitle:

Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce T. 60 (2016) Special Issue

Creator:

Kowalski, Waldemar (1957– )

Contributor:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences ; Wójcik, Bartosz : Tr.

Publisher:

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2016

Description:

p. 5-47

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; Poland - religious life - 16th c. ; catechisms, Polish - 16th c. - history and critics ; religious teaching ; Reformation - Poland ; Counter-Reformation - Poland ; Council of Trent (1545-1563 : Trento, Italy) - influence ; Trent reform

Abstract:

The article discusses how the authors of sixteenth-century Polish Catholic and Evangelical catechisms perceived and analysed the notion of “the Church”. Following the Tridentine programme, the Catholic authors present their Church as unified under the Pope’s authority and the only inheritor of the works of the Apostles. The veracity of its teaching is testified to with God’s unnatural interventions – miracles. Protestant theologians teach about “the visible and outward Church”, which exists whenever the pure Word of God is preached and where sacraments are administered in accordance with the Holy Writ. Alongside the Visible Church, there exists “the invisible and inward Church” that unites all those following Christ, who is the one and only head of the Church.

Relation:

Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce

Volume:

60 SI

Start page:

5

End page:

47

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

2450-8349 ; 0029-8514 ; 10.12775/OiRwP.2016.SI.01

Source:

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Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; Activities popularizing science (DUN)

Access:

Open