List of Figures List of Illustrations Preface Abbreviations Chapter One: Print and the Reformation Crisis of Authority Part I: Overview, Background, and Beginnings Chapter Two: Contours of the Printed Debate Chapter Three: Heresy and Hermeneutics: The Background to the Controversy Chapter Four: Karlstadt's Challenge to Luther Chapter Five: The Early Debate in Switzerland Part II: Exchanges, 1526-1529 Chapter Six: Martin Bucer and Bugenhagen's Psalms Commentary Chapter Seven: Oecolampadius against the Wittenbergers Chapter Eight: Undermining Oecolampadius: the Debate with Pirckheimer Chapter Nine: The Contributions of Zurich and Strasbourg Chapter Ten: Print, Polemics, and Popular Response in South Germany Chapter Eleven: The Debate Matures, 1527-1529 Part III: Gradual Developments Chapter Twelve: The Lord's Supper in Catechetical Literature Chapter Thirteen: Sacramentarian Diversity Chapter Fourteen: Reconstituting Authority Conclusion Notes Bibliography

"This book is an impressive accomplishment and seems destined to become the new standard reference for scholars looking to engage debates over the sacraments in the early Reformation. Burnett's profound facility with the primary sources is richly on display throughout the monograph. Her sophisticated analysis yields fresh insights about the subject matter which will inform future studies for many years to come ... Debating the Sacraments belongs on the shelf of every student of the Reformation, and every theologian interested in sacramental theology and the nature of ecclesial authority." -- David Luy, International Journal of Systematic Theology "Burnett's focus is on the period when Protestant sacramental theology became hot topics in the 1520s. Her approach is chronological as well as wide-ranging ... This gives the book an authoritative, reference-like power that will make it the place to turn to for all future forays into this tangled topic. Her approach is also unique among other treatments of this topic since her net is wider and more nuanced than what we have had before." -- Donald K. McKim, Journal of Ecclesiastical History "In the current volume, Amy Burnett has managed to tackle one of the theological debates most fraught with danger and to bring new clarity to the early stages of the intra-Protestant debate over the Lord's Supper. This is no mean feat...in the future no one should dare write anything on the role of Lord's Supper in the early Reformation without taking seriously this outstanding piece of research. It is remarkable scholarship and a fitting tribute to the other historian able to do this kind of work, her Doktorvater, the late Robert Kingdon." -- Timothy J. Wengert, United Lutheran Seminary, Comptes Rendus "Amy Nelson Burnett is a foremost authority on the controversy over Christ's bodily presence in the Lord's Supper, which pulled apart the early Reformation in the 1520s. In this new book she successfully combines two distinct approaches, the cultural history of printed communication and the history of theological doctrines. With immense learning and superb clarity, she invites us to re-think the 'who', 'how' and 'why' behind this acrimonious debate." --Euan Cameron, author of the European Reformation and Enchanted Europe "This study is an instant classic, a new standard for interpreting the Protestant sacramental controversies as a whole. Burnett's exemplary contextual analysis of the unfolding series of printed exchanges that made the controversy the hottest discussion in the mid-1520s provides a rich model for assessing how published treatises could take on authoritative voice in addressing central matters of piety and practice." --Robert Kolb, Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus, Concordia Seminary

Selling point: Argues for recognizing the important link between debates and discussions of the Lord's Supper and infant baptism Selling point: Notes the ongoing importance of Erasmus of Rotterdam to the early Reformation Selling point: Examines the role of printers, editors, and translators in public controversy and reception of the early Reformation

Amy Nelson Burnett is Paula and D.B. Varner University Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy, and she has written extensively on the Swiss and South German Reformation. Her book Teaching the Reformation won the Gerald Strauss prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies and Conference.

Selling point: Argues for recognizing the important link between debates and discussions of the Lord's Supper and infant baptism Selling point: Notes the ongoing importance of Erasmus of Rotterdam to the early Reformation Selling point: Examines the role of printers, editors, and translators in public controversy and reception of the early Reformation