Cardinal Contarini at Regensburg

by Peter Matheson

The aim of this book is to demonstrate that the sixteenth-century "ecumenical movement," and in particular, the colloquy between Catholics and Protestants at Regensburg in 1541, was by no means an idle "dream of an understanding," doomed from the start. Contarini's campaign for reconciliation mirrors the richness and elusiveness of pre-Tridentine Catholicism. It was the clash of cultures and politics as much as purely theological considerations that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149820466X
• ISBN13: 9781498204668
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"