Seeking the true church : the multiformity of church development and the ensuing conflict during the reformation

宗教改革は、その展開の中で諸派、諸グループを生み出し、多様な教会形成のあり方を提出した。本稿は、宗教改革において影響力をもった改革者とグループを取り上げ、その教会論と教会形成について考察を行う。具体的には宗教改革主流派のルター、ツヴィングリ、カルヴァン、そして急進派のミュンツァー、再洗礼派を考察の対象とし、その教会論や教会形成の内容とその多様性を明らかにする。同時に、いずれの教会形成のあり方も、聖書に基づき、時代状況に規定されつつ、模索する中で形成されたものであったこと、そしていずれのあり方も完成されたものではなかったことが確認されるだろう。The Reformation cannot reasonably be considered to have been a uniform movement. Indeed, a careful look at any of the churches and groups to which the Reformation gave birth evinces a multiformity of ways in which churches developed during the period. The individual Reformers and various groups that were influential during the Reformation include, on the one hand, Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli (the Reformation mainstream) and, on the other hand, Müntzer and the Anabaptists (the Radical Reformation). This study attempts to illuminate the diversity exhibited by the views of these figures and groups through evaluating their understandings of ecclesiology and church formation. The study clearly shows that all of these views were historically conditioned and developed as part of an effort to build the church on the basis of the Bible. For these reasons, these views remain incomplete in their formulations.講演(Lecture