Reformation Day Church History Collection (10 vols.)

by William Estep; Glenn S. Sunshine; David M. Whitford; Martin Luther

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8 more

Publishers:

Eerdmans; Westminster John Knox; T&T Clark; Paulist Press; Christian Literature Company

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3 more

, 1897–2013

Overview

Some of the most respected resources regarding the Reformation are brought together in this collection, shining light on the events and personalities that changed the course of church history. Works spanning the Reformation from the days before Luther until the end of the 16th century provide a context for the Reformation’s importance to the lives of those in the early modern period. This collection also includes resources on the Anglican and Anabaptist movements.

Key Features

• Provides introductions to the events of the Reformation
• Covers specific Protestant movements
• Offers works from respected Reformation historians

Product Details

• Title: Reformation Day Church History Collection
• Volumes: 10
• Pages: 4,070
• Topic: Church History

The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism, Third Edition

• Author: William R. Estep
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 1996
• Pages: 348

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This standard introduction to the history of Anabaptism offers a vivid chronicle of the rise and spread of this vigorous Christian group. Estep provides a historical review of each Anabaptist leader’s influence and discusses their positions on such doctrines as infant baptism, the Trinity, pacifism, the swearing of oaths and civil authority. The author, wanting to impart more than just information, hopes “that through these pages the world of the sixteenth century may come alive, and the Anabaptists within it, with all their virtues and faults, their strengths and weaknesses, but above all with the faith and ideals that motivated them to witness in word and deed, in life and in death, for that truth which for them was worth the living and the dying.”

In this third edition, The Anabaptist Story has been substantially revised and enlarged to take into account the numerous Anabaptist sources that have come to light in the last half-century. Estep was also able to take advantage of the significant number of monographs and other scholarly research on Anabaptist themes that have appeared more recently. He challenges a number of assumptions held by contemporary historians of sixteenth-century Anabaptism and offers fresh insights into the historical movement to which we owe the notion of religious liberty that prevails today.

A sympathetic and fair-minded account. Estep is a spiritually sensitive, careful, and thoughtful scholar. His book is the best popular synthetic treatment of sixteenth-century Anabaptist history.

—Restoration Quarterly

A valuable contribution to Reformation studies….It would be difficult to find a better volume for an introduction to sixteenth-century Anabaptism.

—Fides et Historia

Recommended for its forceful and engaging style and for its unquestionable scholarship. Pastors, students, and scholars will be better informed in the area of Radical Reformation studies by its careful perusal.

—Southwestern Journal of Theology

Accurate historically and may be used effectively for introductions by those within the believing camp of Anabaptism as well as by inquiring outsiders.

—Church History

William R. Estep (1920-2000) was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Church History at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. He participated in several church organizations including the American Society of Church History; the Conference on Faith and History; Southern Baptist Historical Society; the Texas Baptist Historical Society; and the Historical Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He is the author of Renaissance and Reformation and Revolution within the Revolution.

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The Reformation

• Author: Williston Walker
• Editor: John Fulton
• Series: Ten Epochs of Church History
• Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
• Publication Date: 1900
• Pages: 502

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Contents:

• Prefatory Note
• I. The New Wine in the Old Bottles
• II. The Spanish Awakening
• III. The Saxon Revolt
• IV. The Revolt in German Switzerland
• V. The Lutheran Churches of Germany
• VI. Calvin and His Work
• VII. The Protestant Movement Carried to Other Countries
• VIII. The More Radical Reformers
• IX. The Counter-Reformation
• X. The Struggle for Mastery

Williston Walker (1860–1922) was an American church historian and author of A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States, John Calvin, and several other works. He worked at both Hartford Seminary and Yale University.

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The Anglican Reformation

• Author: William Clark
• Editor: John Fulton
• Series: Ten Epochs of Church History
• Publisher: Christian Literature Company
• Publication Date: 1897
• Pages: 492

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Contents:

• I. The Anglican Church before the Conquest
• II. The Norman Kings
• III. The Plantagenets
• IV. Wyclif and the Lollards
• V. The Church before the Reformation
• VI. Precursors of the Reformation: Colet, More, Erasmus
• VII. Early Days of Henry VIII
• VIII. Henry and Catharine
• IX. The Supremacy
• X. The Religious Houses
• XI. Reformation and Reaction
• XII. Edward VI and the First Prayer Book
• XIII. The First English Ordinal
• XIV. Foreign Influences and the Second Prayer Book
• XV. Accession of Mary
• XVI. The Marian Persecution
• XVII. The Elizabethan Reform
• XVIII. The Consecration of Parker
• XIX. Queen Elizabeth and Archbishop Parker
• XX. The Articles OF Religion
• XXI. The Advertisements
• XXII. Grindal and the Prophesyings
• XXIII. Whitgift and Puritanism
• XXIV. Richard Hooker
• XXV. King James I and Archbishop Bancroft
• XXVI. Archbishop Abbot and Calvinism
• XXVII. King Charles I and Archbishop Laud
• XXVIII. The Long Parliament and the Rebellion
• XXIX. The Commonwealth
• XXX. The Work of the Restoration

William Robinson Clark (1829–1912) was a Scottish-Canadian theologian and minister of the Church of England. In 1882, he accepted a teaching post at Trinity College in Toronto, Ontario. He was a sought-after preacher and teacher and was considered a leading theologian in North America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is the author of many theological and historical works.

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A Reformation Reader

• Author: Denis R. Janz
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 472

Although deeply political, economic, and social, the European Reformations of the sixteenth century were at heart religious disputes over core Christian theological issues. Denis Janz’s A Reformation Reader is unabashed in its generous selection of key theological and related texts from five distinct Reformation sites. Along with plenty on the late-medieval background, the Lutheran, Calvinist, Radical, English, and Catholic Reformations are all well-represented here.

Janz’s selection of more than 100 carefully edited primary documents captures the energy and moment of that tumultuous time. The new edition incorporates a dozen readings by and about women in the Reformation, adds a new chapter on Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants’ War, and adds illuminating graphics.

Denis R. Janz is Provost Distinguished Professor of the History of Christianity at Loyola University, New Orleans. He is the general editor of A People’s History of Christianity series and author of Luther and Late Medieval Thomism, Luther on Thomas Aquinas, and World Christianity and Marxism.

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The Reformation for Armchair Theologians

• Author: Glenn S. Sunshine
• Series: W.J.K. Armchair
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Publication Date: 2005
• Pages: 256

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This accessible narrative story of the Reformation is written for lay audiences. It is part of the popular Westminster John Knox Press Armchair series and is illustrated with memorable cartoons by Ron Hill. The chapters of the book are suitable for use in church adult education settings to provide a solid grounding in the history of the Reformation and its leading ideas. Questions for discussion and suggestions for further reading provided for each chapter make this book great for group study. Since the Reformation is such a formative event in the lives of churches, it is important to have an accessible resource to tell its story available for laypersons in all denominations.

Glenn S. Sunshine is professor and chair of the history department at Central Connecticut University in New Britain, Connecticut. He is the author of a number of articles and books, including Reforming French Protestantism: The Development of Huguenot Ecclesiastical Institutions.

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Early Protestant Spirituality

• Editor: Scott H. Hendrix
• Translator: Scott H. Hendrix
• Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Pages: 368

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This volume is an anthology that includes writings by the Magisterial Reformers (Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, etc.) along with lesser-known names (Frith, Capito, Vermigli, etc.) to provide a unique insight into Protestant spirituality as it developed from the earliest days of the Reformation.

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The Early Reformation on the Continent

• Author: Owen Chadwick
• Series: Oxford History of the Christian Church
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 456

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The Early Reformation on the Continent offers a fresh look at the formative years of the European reformation and the origins of Protestant faith and practice. Taking into account recent work on Erasmus and Luther, Owen Chadwick handles these and numerous other figures with sensitivity and understanding. Emphasis on the context provides a balanced view of the raison d’être for the changes the reforming communities sought to introduce and the difficulties and disagreements that followed.

The structure of the book is distinctively original. Rather than following a conventional chronological progression, Owen Chadwick takes a much broader perspective and arranges his material thematically. Whatever the topic—the Bible, clerical celibacy, moral questions of adultery and divorce, purgatory, hymns, excommunication, the relationship of church and state, education, the Eucharist—the reader is taken back to its origins and development through the history of the western church and given an authoritative, accessible, and informative account.

[This] is the most detailed English work to date in this field . . . it provides essential background for anyone who wishes to understand the significant political and spiritual contributions made by the papacy in the twentieth century. . . . This book should remain a standard in the field of papal studies for years to come.

—J. Francis Watson, History

Owen Chadwick is emeritus regius professor of modern history at University of Cambridge.

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T&T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology

• Editor: David M. Whitford
• Series: Bloomsbury Companions
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication Date: 2012
• Pages: 520

This volume is a major reference work on all aspects of theology in the reformation period. Editor David M. Whitford assembles an able group of scholars to present a detailed outline of the Reformed tradition. The contributors guide the reader through the historical background and theological development of this rich heritage. Major topics of theology within the Reformed tradition are discussed, including human nature and the fall, election and justification, the sacraments, eschatology and the Antichrist, and much more. The essays provide a helpful guide to the major aspects of the historic Reformed faith and offer new insights that will generate further dialogue and refinement of the tradition.

David Whitford has succeeded in bringing those specialists together that have given in this book a full oversight of the theology of the Reformation in all of its variety. Latest results of research, a fine combination of theology and history, and an accessible style make this book into one of the leading handbooks on our way to 2017 and beyond.

—Herman Selderhuis, professor of church history and church polity, Theological University Apledoorn, Netherlands

Whitford opens this overture to Reformation theology with a wise essay on how neophytes might take their first steps in the discipline. In what follows, eighteen seasoned pros weigh in with substantial contributions on the classical loci, salient themes, and neuralgic issues. A fine starting point for graduate students and seminarians.

—Denis R. Janz, provost distinguished professor of the history of Christianity, Loyola University, New Orleans

David Whitford is professor of the history of Christianity at United Theological Seminary in Ohio. He is the author of Luther: A Guide for the Perplexed, Tyranny and Resistance: The Lutheran Tradition and the Magdeburg Confession, Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research, as well as numerous articles on Reformation Europe. He is the associate editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal.

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Wycliffite Spirituality

• Editors: J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Stephen E. Lahey, and Fiona Somerset
• Translators: J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Stephen E. Lahey, and Fiona Somerset
• Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Pages: 432

Dating from the late medieval period in England, this volume is a collection of English translations of Wycliffe’s writings, the Wycliffite texts. The records of heresy trials discloses that, far from practicing a wholly negative Christianity, Wycliffites were as keenly interested in the spiritual life as many of their contemporaries.

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The Theologia Germanica of Martin Luther

• Author: Bengt Hoffman
• Translator: Bengt Hoffman
• Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication Date: 1980
• Pages: 224

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Written around 1350 by an anonymous author, this is a simple yet profound book about life in God as it translates into life in the world. This translation was based on Luther’s German edition of 1518.

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