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On occasion of the celebrations for the fifth centenary of Guy de Brès’ birth, as well as the publication of the first volume of the critical edition of his theological works, this article aims at analysing the epistle-like preface and Catalogue des Docteurs et Conciles included in de Brès’ first theological/polemical treatise, entitled Le baston de la foy chrestienne (first published in 1555). The preface is placed within the context of anti-Anabaptist polemics and in continuity with previous Reformed efforts to convince civil authorities across Europe that the Reformed church did not harbour seditious troublemakers or detested heretics; the Catalogue of doctors and councils, alongside the preface, constitutes a summary of the apologetical and polemical reply Le baston expressed against a Roman Catholic work by Nicole Grenier entitled Le bouclier de la foy and directed against Reformed believers and their doctrine. While the patristic and canonical sources used by de Brès for the writing of Le baston remain to be fleshed out more precisely, the critical edition of Le baston will shed new light on this and other matters, representing a further step towards the understanding of the life and theology of a key protagonist of the European Reformation of the mid sixteenth century.
在庆祝居伊-德-布雷斯诞辰五百周年以及他的神学作品批判版第一卷出版之际,本文旨在分析德-布雷斯的第一部神学/论战论文《Le baston de la foy chrestienne》(1555 年首次出版)中的书信式序言和《Catalogue des Docteurs et Conciles》。这篇序言是在反再洗礼派论战的背景下撰写的,与之前改革宗为说服欧洲各国政府相信改革宗教会没有包庇煽动闹事者或令人憎恶的异端所做的努力一脉相承;与序言并列的 "博士和公会目录 "是《Le baston》针对尼科尔-格勒尼耶 (Nicole Grenier) 的罗马天主教著作《Le bouclier de la foy》以及针对改革宗信徒及其教义所做的辩护和论战答复的摘要。虽然德-布雷斯在撰写《Le baston》时所使用的教父和教规资料仍有待更精确的充实,但《Le baston》的批判版将为这一问题和其他问题带来新的启示,代表着在了解这位 16 世纪中叶欧洲宗教改革的关键人物的生平和神学方面又迈进了一步。