Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter I. Introduction
1.1. Guy de Brès and His Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper
1.2.1. Biographical Literature on Guy de Brès
1.2.2. Research on the Writings of Guy de Brès
1.2.3. Research on the Theological Ideas of Guy de Brès
1.3. Methodological Remarks
Chapter II. Guy de Brès and the Early Reformation of the Low Countries before 1548
2.1.1. The Influence of Martin Luther
2.1.2. The Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper in the early Reformation in the Low Countries
2.1.3. The Influence of John Calvin
2.2. Under the Persecutions of Charles V
2.3.1. Conversion
2.3.2. Persecution and Exile
2.3.3. Review
3.1. In the Strangers’ Church in London (1548-1552)
3.2. First Pastoral Work in Lille (1552-1555)
3.3. The Period of Study in Switzerland (1556-1559)
3.4. Revising Le Baston (1558-1559)
3.5.1. The Editions of Le Baston
3.5.2. The Structure of the Chapter on the Lord’s Supper in Le Baston
3.5.3.1. The Spiritual Meal
3.5.3.2. The Distinction between Sign and Reality
3.5.3.3. The Refutation of the Doctrine of Transubstantiation
3.5.3.5. The Refutation of the Mass as a sacrifice
3.5.3.6. Review
Chapter IV. Confessing the Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper in 1559-1566
4.1.1. Philip II and the Nobility of the Low Countries
4.1.2. The Council of Trent and the Low Countries
4.2.1. Guy de Brès’s Pastoral Work in Tournai and the Confession de Foy
4.2.2. The Successive Provincial Synods in the Southern Low Countries
4.2.3. Three Works written in Sedan
4.2.4. A Project to Ally with the Antwerp Lutherans
4.3.1.1. General Introduction to the 1561-1566 Editions of the Confession de Foy
4.3.1.2. The Authorship of the Belgic Confession
4.3.1.3. General Introduction to each Article on the Sacraments in the Confession de Foy
4.3.1.4. The Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper in the Confession de Foy
4.3.1.5. Review
4.3.2. The Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper in the Letter to the Antwerp Consistory (1565)
4.3.3.1. The Distinction Between the Sacrament and What It Signifies
4.3.3.2. The Benefits of the Sacrament of Baptism
4.4. Review
Chapter V. Defending the Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper during the Annus Mirabilis (1566-1567) in the Procedures Tenues
5.1. Guy de Bres in the Annus Mirabilis (Wonder Year, April 1566-April 1567)
5.2. The Antwerp Confession of the Lutherans
5.3. The Procedures Tenues
5.4. Francois Richardot and the Discours Tenu
5.5. The Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper in the Procedures Tenues
5.5.1.1. The Authority of the Church Fathers
5.5.1.2. The Refutation of the Fixation of the Words of Consecration
5.5.1.3. The Refutation of the Distinction between Substance and Accidents
5.5.1.4. The Distinction between Sign and Reality
5.5.1.5. The Spiritual Food
5.5.1.6. Spiritual Food for Spiritual Life
5.5.1.7. The Spiritual Presence of Christ in the Lord’s Supper
5.5.1.8. Unbelievers’ Participation in the Lord’s Supper
5.5.1.9. Refutation of Roman Catholic Eucharistic Customs
5.5.1.10. Review
5.5.2. On the Mass (in the Second Letter to the Valenciennes Church)
5.5.2.1. The Biblical Groundlessness of the Roman Catholic Mass
5.5.2.2. The Invalidity of the Roman Catholic Priesthood
5.5.2.3. How the Church Fathers used the Word ‘Sacrifice’
5.5.2.4. Only One Sacrifice (offered by Jesus Christ)
5.5.2.5. Review
5.5.3.1. A Dispute with the Bishop of Arras (François Richardot)
5.5.3.2. A Dispute with a Franciscan Monk
5.6. Review
Chapter VI. Conclusion
Bibliography
Curriculum Vitae
Index
