Martin Bucer: Correspondance / Briefwechsel: Band IV (Januar-September 1530) (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought) - Hardcover

Unlike most theologians of his age, Martin Bucer had a wide range of vision with respect to European affairs: In addition to his contacts within Alsace and Germany, he established relations with almost every country on the Continent. It was his ecumenical attitude that always led him to mediate between the parties in the religious battles of his time. His deep commitment and his objective to reach an agreement can be traced in all his activities, works and letters. As Bucer did not found a religious denomination himself, his theological and historical importance has been underestimated for a long time. In addition his handwriting is hard to decipher, which makes it difficult to deal with his works, especially with his letters. Bucer's letters (BCor) have been published in chronological order as part of the "Opera omnia" since 1979 (Leiden, Brill, I: 1979; II: 1989; III: 1995; IV: 2000). Since the editor, Jean Rott (Strasbourg), died Bucer's correspondence has been edited in Erlangen. This academic edition of source material will provide future research with a broad basis for significant aspects of Reformation history about which very little is known.

Berndt Hamm, Dr. Theol., Full Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurnberg. Research on theology and spirituality in the late Middle Ages, on the history of Humanism and of German and European Reformation as well as on the relationship between theology and National Socialism in Germany. Reinhold Friedrich, habilitatus Dr. Theol., visiting lecturer and academic collaborator at Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nurnberg. Research on 16th century ecclesiastical history and 19th century liturgy. Andreas Puchta, M.A., academic collaborator at Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nurnberg. Research on 16th century ecclesiastical history and Christian arts in the 19th and 20th century. Matthieu Arnold, since 1997 professor of the History of Christianity at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Strasbourg and since 2002 member of the Instituts Universitaire de France, has collaborated on the edition of Bucer's correspondence since 1995. He has published with Berndt Hamm Martin Bucer zwischen Luther und Zwingli, (Tubingen, 2003). He has published several works on Luther's correspondence. Christian Krieger has been a collaborator on the edition of Bucer's correspondence since 1995. He has published with Marc Lienhard the volume Martin Bucer and Sixteenth-Century Europe (Brill, 1993).