Background
Backus, Irena Dorota was born on April 10, 1950 in Warsaw, Poland. Immigrated to Great Britain, 1961, resident in Switzerland since 1977.
(In this study, Irene Backus examines the fate of the Apoc...)
In this study, Irene Backus examines the fate of the Apocalypse at the hands of early Protestants in three centers of the Reformation: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg. To do so, Backus systematically investigates sources and methods of the most important reformed and Lutheran commentaries of the Apocalypse from 1528-1584.
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This volume deals with the basic problem of how theologians of all confessions handled ancient, mainly Christian, history in the Reformation era. The author argues that far from being a mere tool of religious controversy, history was used throughout the 16th century to express profound religious and theological convictions and that historians and theologians of different confessions sought to define their religious identity by recourse to a particular historical method. By carefully comparing the types of historical documents produced by Calvinist, Lutheran and Roman Catholic circles, she throws a new light on patristic editions and manuals, the "Centuries of Magdeburg," the "Ecclesiastical Annals" of Caesar Baronius and various collections of New Testament Apocrypha. Much of this material is examined here for the first time. The book substantially revises existing preconceptions about Reformation historiography and view of the past.
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Backus, Irena Dorota was born on April 10, 1950 in Warsaw, Poland. Immigrated to Great Britain, 1961, resident in Switzerland since 1977.
Bachelor with honors, Oxford University, Great Britain, 1972. Master of Arts with honors, Oxford University, Great Britain, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, Great Britain, 1976.
Doctor Theological Hab., Bern, Switzerland, 1988. Doctor of Divinity(honorary), Edinburgh University, 2001.
Research assistant Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, London, 1975-1977. Maitre assistant University Geneva, Switzerland, 1977-1983, maitre d'enseignement et de recherche Switzerland, 1983-1991, professor titulaire Switzerland, since 1991. Private dozent University Bern, Switzerland, since 1988.
Visiting professor University Lausanne, Switzerland, 1990-1991, Ecole Pratique des H. Etudes, Paris, 1996. Committee member Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes, Paris, since 1994, Renaissance & Reformation Review, London, since 1996, Zwingliverein, Zurich, since 1989, Oxford Studies in History Theology, since 1997.
(In this study, Irene Backus examines the fate of the Apoc...)
(This volume deals with the basic problem of how theologia...)
Married Guy Colin Backus, April 7, 1973.