Table of Contents
Preface 1
Frequently Used Abbreviations 3
I Introduction 5
II Historical and Theoretical Background for a Teaching Office in the Church 15
The Teaching Office at the Daybreak of the Reformation
Calvin's Estimate of the Theological Foundation of the Church's Teaching Office
III The Genevan Reform in School and Church 32
The Influence of Strasbourg on Calvin
The Educational Situation in Geneva
The Reformed Collége de Rive
The Academy and Church of the Pays du Vaud
The Doctorate in the Genevan Academy
IV The Huguenot Church and the Doctoral Office 72
The Role of the Doctor Reflected in Synodical Records
Doctors of the Huguenot Church
V Prophesying, Prophets, Doctors, and the Dutch 99
À Lasco and Poullain
The Church Orders
Summary
VI The Doctor in the Church of Scotland 127
The Practice of the Doctoral Office in the Kirk, 1560-1578
The Second Book of Discipline and the Doctoral Office, 1578-1592
The Scottish Doctorate, Waning Presbytery, and Jacobean Episcopacy, 1592-1606
VII The "Doctor-Teacher" in English Puritanism 156
Reform of Schools
The Marian Exiles
The Attempt to Presbyterianize the Church of England
The " Lecturer " as a Puritan Office
VIII The Westminster Assembly and "Whether the Doctor Be a Distinct Officer" 195
IX The Doctoral Ministry in Later Reformed and Presbyterian Polity 214
X Conclusion 239
Bibliography 248
Index 269