Research Catalog

Title

Religious thought in the Reformation / Bernard M.G. Reardon.

Author

Reardon, Bernard M. G.

Publication

London ; New York : Longman, c1995.

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Description

xx, 322 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

The book starts with an introductory overview of the late medieval precursors of the Reformation. It then devotes a separate chapter, or chapters, to Erasmus, Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin and the radical reform movements; and there is a particularly full treatment of the Reformation in Britain. The book closes with a discussion of the Council of Trent.

Subject

• Theology, Doctrinal > History > 16th century
• Reformation

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. The eve of the Reformation: anticipations of reform -- Antipapalism -- The growth of heresy -- The conciliar movement -- Late medieval piety -- Humanism -- 2. Desiderius Erasmus -- The humanist and biblical scholar -- Erasmus and the reformers -- 'Christ's philosophy' -- 'Vox clamantis in deserto' -- 3. Martin Luther: I. The religious revolutionary -- The age and the man -- Luther's experience -- Justification by faith alone -- Christian freedom -- Note on the indulgence controversy -- 4. Martin Luther: II. The founder of Protestantism -- The authority of scripture -- The church -- The sacraments -- The work and person of Christ -- God, providence and predestination -- Sin -- Man and society: the two kingdoms -- 5. Huldrych Zwingli -- Reform at Zurich -- Zwingli's biblical theology -- The sovereignty of God and the mediation of Christ -- A disciplined church -- The Eucharistic controversy -- Oecolampadius and Bullinger -- 6. Melanchthon and the development of Lutheranism --^
• Loci Communes -- The Augsburg Confession -- Melanchthon's Apology: 'synergism' -- Melanchthon's later theology -- 7. Calvin and reformed Christianity: I. Strassburg and Geneva -- Martin Bucer at Strassburg -- A mediating theology. Bucer and Calvin -- Geneva -- Calvin, humanist and reformer -- Christianae Religionis Institutio, 1536 -- A holy commonwealth -- 8. Calvin and reformed Christianity: II. A pattern of sound doctrine -- Sola Scriptura: Calvin as biblical exegete -- The knowledge of God -- Predestination -- Christ, his person and his work -- The church and the sacraments -- Note on Calvin's trinitarian doctrine -- 9. The radical Reformation -- 'Be ye separate' -- The Anabaptists -- The spirituals -- The rationalists -- 10. The Reformation in Britain: I. Crisis -- 'Henrician' catholicism -- Thomas Cranmer -- 'The true and catholic doctrine of the sacrament' -- The beginnings of Anglicanism -- Note on Bucer's De regno Christi --^
• 11. The Reformation in Britain: II. Consolidation -- The Elizabethan settlement -- A twofold apologetic -- Richard Hooker -- The origins of English separatism -- Calvinist presbyterianism in Scotland -- Note on Hooker's theory of civil government -- 12. Counter-Reformation: the Council of Trent -- Catholic reform and revival: the Jesuit theologians -- The summoning of the Council -- Sessions iii to vi: basic issues -- Sessions vii to xxv: the sacraments and other topics -- Trent and Protestantism.

ISBN

• 0582259606 (hdbk.)
• 0582259592 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^94036908^/AC^

OCLC

31376413

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library