Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
A Note on Terminology
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Research
1.1 Micron-research
1.2 Preliminary Methodological Considerations
1.3 Research Question and Chapter Contents
Part 1: Historical
2.1 Description of the book
2.2 Printer
2.3 Authorship
2.4 Structure and Summary of the Book
2.5 Goals of the Book
2.6 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 3: Introduction to the Authors of Van de weerdicheydt, nutheydt ende noodicheyt der christelicker vergaderinghen
3.1.1 Early life
3.1.2 Zurich
3.1.3 England
3.1.4 From England to Norden
3.1.5 Norden
3.2 Nicolaus Carinaeus
3.3 Summary and Conclusions
4.1 The East Frisian Reformation
4.2 The Reformation of the Refugees
4.2.1.1 Jesse Spohnholz and Mirjam van Veen
4.2.1.3 Johannes Müller
4.2.1.4 Three Questions
4.2.2 The Reformation of the Refugees
A) Continuity between the Churches before and after Emden 1571
B) The Relation between Flight and Theology
C) Was Every Refugee Reformed?
D) Nicholas Terpstra’s Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World
4.2.3 Evaluation
4.3 Summary and Conclusions
5.1 The German Translation by Engelbert Faber
5.2 The English Translation of Excerpts from the Book
5.3 Summary and Conclusions
Part 2: Theological
Chapter 6: Analysis of the Ecclesiology in Van de weerdicheydt, nutheydt ende noodicheyt der christelicker vergaderinghen
6.1 Micron’s Method in Van de weerdicheydt
6.2 The Purpose of the Church
6.3 The Nature of the Church
6.3.1 Gathered out of all People by the Will of God
6.3.2 The Church of God and the World
6.3.3 The Foundation of the Church
6.4.1 The Marks of the Church: Source and Verity
6.4.2 The First Mark of the Church: Doctrine
A)Word
Excursus: Ministry and Prophecy, Priests and Prophets
B)Sacraments
C)Christian Discipline
6.5.1 The Command to Join the Church
6.5.2 The Necessity to Secede
6.5.3 Confessional Authenticity and the Pastoral Realism of Broken Life.
6.6 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 7: Micron and Reformed Ecclesiology
7.1 Authors and Sources
7.2 Purpose and Nature of the Church
7.3 The Marks of the Church
7.4 Teachers of a Holy Gospel
7.5 Unity and Secession
7.6 Summary and Conclusions
8.1 Context
8.2 Micron’s Ecclesiology within Reformed Ecclesiology
8.3 Dissemination
8.4 Conclusion
Abbreviations
Works by Micron
Other primary sources
Secondary literature
Images
Appendix A: Schedule of Contents Van de weerdicheydt, nutheydt ende noodicheyt der christelicker vergaderinghen
Method
Endnotes
Index of Persons and Places