Contents
Contents List of Contributors Preface 1 Emulating the Past and Creating the Present: Reformation and the Use of Historical and Theological Models in Zurich in the Sixteenth Century
Bruce Gordon with Luca Baschera and Christian Moser 2 Patristics and Polemic: Josias Simler's History of Early Church
Christological Disputes Mark Taplin 3 Bullinger's Model for Collective Episcopacy: Transformational Ministry in a Society Facing Final Judgment Jon Delmas Wood 4 Peter Martyr Vermigli's Epistle to the Princess Elizabeth: Models of Redemptive Kingship Torrance Kirby 5 A Mirror of Virtue: Commentaries on the Book of Ruth in Sixteenthcentury Zurich
Christian Moser 6 Reforming a Model: Zwingli, Bullinger, and the Virgin Mary in Sixteenth-century Zurich Rebecca A. Giselbrecht 7 The Childhood of Christ as a Model of Christian Child Raising: Two
Sermons of 1553 by Rudolf Gwalther Kurt Jakob Rüetschi 8 Moral Treatment of Immoral Texts from Classical Antiquity: Conrad
Gessner's Martial-Edition of 1544
Urs B. Leu 9 Shaping Reformed Aristotelianism: Otto Werdmüller's Evaluation of the Nicomachean Ethics in De dignitate, usu et methodo philosophiae moralis (1545) Luca Baschera 10 'Praeceptor amicissimus': Konrad Pellikan, and Models of Teacher,
Student and the Ideal of Scholarship Matthew McLean 11 Fathers and Sons: the Exemplary Lives of Konrad Pellikan and Leo Jud in Reformation Zurich Bruce Gordon Index