What is it about?
Chapter 6 is Paul F. Grendler, "Universities, Monastic Studia, Academies, Seminries, and Catechesis," pp. 95-122. This is a survey of all the Catholic and Protestant educational institutions that taught theology in Europe ca. 1500 to ca. 1660. It also describes the vast expansion of catechetical schools and most influential catechisms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Why is it important?
It surveys both Catholic and Protestant educational institutions that taught theology and catechesis. It is probably unique for that reason.
Perspectives
It provides a Catholic and Protestant description on the teaching of theology and catechesis 1500 to 1660. It highlights similarities and differences.
Paul Grendler
University of Toronto emeritus
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This page is a summary of: The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology, September 2023, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/9781107358386.
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