Corpus Christianorum. Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta (CCCOGD) focuses on what has been decreed in different forms by those church councils recognised as ecumenical by one or more churches, by general councils of the churches of one or more traditions, as well as by councils which have a greater importance in the history of the individual churches. Volume 6.2 (ed. A. Melloni, with the collaboration of G. Braghi) turns its attention to the synods of the Churches of and after the Reformation from 1618 to 1820.
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This volume includes the critical editions – in some cases the very first critical editions – of a selection of synods of the Churches of and after the Reformation from 1618 to 1820. This collection of synodal decrees represents different confessional families and covers a wide linguistic and geographical spectrum between Europe and North America.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1618/1619 Synodus Dordrechtana — Herman J. Selderhuis
1643/1652 Concilium Westmonasteriense — Torrance Kirby
1646/1648 Concilium Cantabrigense (in Nova Britannia — Jonathan Arnold
1655 Concilium Hengroniae — Antonio Gerace
1656 Concilium Danecastrense — Francesca Cadeddu
1658 Concilium Londinense (Savoy Declaration) — Torrance Kirby
1679/1680 Concilium Bostoniense — Torrance Kirby
1748 Concilium Philadelphiense — Wolfgang Splitter
1764 Synodus Marienbornensis — Olaf Nippe & Paul Peucker
1784 Concilium Baltimorense — Massimo Rubboli
1785/1789 Concilia Philadelphiensia — Massimo Rubboli
1820 Concilium Terrae Mariae — Kim-Eric Williams
Alberto Melloni is Full Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Secretary and Director of the Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire) and Chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He was also the Chair for the 2021 Italian Presidency of the IF20 by the G20 Interfaith Forum. Since 2020, he has been one of the European Commission’s Chief Scientific Advisors.
Gianmarco Braghi, PhD (Trinity College Dublin), is Assistant Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Palermo and a member of the Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire), where he acts as Deputy Coordinator of the “Giuseppe Alberigo” European School for Advanced Religious Studies. He is a member of the Board of the Reformation Research Consortium (REFORC) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stitching Calvin’s Reforming Correspondence.
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