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Life and Writings Life and Writings
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Influences on Katharina Schütz Zell’s Biblical Knowledge Influences on Katharina Schütz Zell’s Biblical Knowledge
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The Authority of the Bible The Authority of the Bible
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Patterns of Scriptural Usage Patterns of Scriptural Usage
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37 Katharina Schütz Zell (c.1498–1562)
Get accessElsie Anne McKee (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Emerita Professor of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her research focuses on John Calvin, Katharina Schütz Zell, exegetical history, worship, ethics, and women in Reformation Europe, as well as cross-cultural women’s history. Recent publications include The Pastoral Ministry and Worship in Calvin’s Geneva (2016) and “ ‘Where today are the widows who have this honorable office?’ Calvin, the Diaconate, and Women,” in The Brill Companion to the Reformation in Geneva (2021).
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Published:19 November 2024
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Abstract
Katharina Schütz Zell of Strasbourg, a woman of artisan background who had never been a nun and knew only the vernacular, was a first-generation Protestant student and teacher of the Bible. She found new and liberating understanding of it through Luther’s writings. By her marriage to reformer Matthew Zell she gained access to daily conversation with scholars. Throughout her adult life she produced texts in many genres which demonstrate her remarkable knowledge of Scripture and basic theology. These include pastoral letters (1524, 1558); catechetical, homiletical, and devotional writings (1532, 1534, 1548, 1548–50); and polemical and historical texts (1524, 1553, 1557). Schütz Zell was the most prolific lay writer of religious texts of the first generation of the Protestant movement. Basing her claim to authority on her knowledge of the Bible, she demonstrated how much a lay person could know and how aptly one could apply the Bible.
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