caa a22 4500 388090359 CHVBK 20180307125248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3170859 doi S0009640700084882 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3170859 David ZdenĚk V. Zdeněk V. David is librarian at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Utraquists, Lutherans, and the Bohemian Confession of 1575 [Elektronische Daten] [ZdenĚk V. David] The purpose of this article is to address the controversial issue of the status of the Utraquist Church in the Kingdom of Bohemia in consequence of the drafting of the Bohemian Confession in 1575. The chronological scope is limited to the period up to 1609, when the issuance of the Letter of Majesty in 1609 formalized the gentlemen's agreement of 1575 and altered the ecclesiastical structure accordingly. According to Czech historiography, the parliamentary action of 1575- which granted toleration, albeit tacit and conditional, to the Lutherans and the Bohemian Brethren—represented a moment of truth for traditional Utraquism, which dated to the original Bohemian Reformation. On the one hand, the Utraquists' choice was to reaffirm its late medieval reformist tradition that preserved the traditional liturgy (including the seven sacraments), a belief in the sacramental episcopate and priesthood in a historic apostolic succession, and the belief in the efficaciousness of good works in the drama of salvation. On the other hand, their choice was to embrace the Lutheran Reformation, which rejected all the doctrines just enumerated. Copyright © American Society of Church History 1999 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/2(1999-06), 294-337 0009-6407 68:2<294 1999 68 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3170859 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3170859 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- David ZdenĚk V. Zdeněk V. David is librarian at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/2(1999-06), 294-337 0009-6407 68:2<294 1999 68 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge