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Author | : Glenn S. Sunshine |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664228156 |
Download The Reformation for Armchair Theologians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This readable, accessible narrative story of the Protestant 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 Protestant 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. Written by experts but designed for the nonexpert, the Armchair series provides accurate, concise, and witty overviews of some of the most profound moments and theologians in Christian history. These books are an essential supplement for first-time encounters with primary texts, a lucid refresher for scholars and clergy, and an enjoyable read for the theologically curious.
Author | : David Guy Fountain |
Publisher | : Revival Literature |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780907821021 |
Download John Wycliffe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This beautifully-produced, illustrated book is a very readable account of John Wycliffe, "The Morning Star of the Reformation," and his contribution to English Protestantism.
Author | : Hilaire Belloc |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2017-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 168149762X |
Download Characters of the Reformation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In one of his most fascinating books, Anglo-French writer Hilaire Belloc presents in bold colors the twenty-three principal characters of the Protestant Reformation. He focuses primarily on those figures who changed the course of English history, analyzing their strengths, mistakes, motives and deeds. With brief and vivid chapters, Belloc paints the portraits of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Thomas More, Mary Tudor, Thomas Cromwell, Mary Stuart and many others. He illustrates how the motives of Protestant leaders were rarely religious in nature, but usually political or economic. Belloc, who served in Parliament from 1906 to 1910, underscores his study of these powerful personalities with the fact that Christendom was once a single entity under the authority of the Catholic Church. Until the Reformation, he argues, each country viewed itself as a part of the whole. Many European princes, however, resented the power of the Pope. The Reformation, aided by the rise of nationalism, was a means for them to shake off Papal authority and to rule their territories independently. It also gave European monarchs control over the Church and its property in their realms, including the taxes that would normally be sent to Rome.
Author | : Andy Thomson |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781532842184 |
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A fictionalized biography of John Wycliffe, set in medieval England: Young John Wycliffe lived through the terrors of the Black Death and later survived the St Scholastica Day riot in Oxford that killed some of his comrades. His experiences gave him a passion to give the Bible to the common man, in the common language of English. Readers will share in Wycliffe's student days at Oxford University and see him work toward his goal of translating the Bible into English for all Englishmen to read.
Author | : Barbara A. Somervill |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780756515935 |
Download Martin Luther Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A biography of Martin Luther, a German monk, who led the Protestant Reformation in Europe during the sixteenth century.
Author | : Brad S. Gregory |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067426407X |
Download The Unintended Reformation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge. The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.
Author | : Jennifer Powell McNutt |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830891773 |
Download The People's Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Bible played a vital role in the lives, theology, and practice of the Protestant Reformers. These essays from the 2016 Wheaton Theology Conference bring together the reflections of church historians and theologians on the nature of the Bible as "the people's book," considering themes such as access to Scripture, the Bible's role in worship, and theological interpretation.
Author | : Professor Jaroslav Pelikan |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300066678 |
Download The Reformation of the Bible Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It is equally true that the Reformation was inspired and defined by the Bible and that the Bible was reshaped by the intellectual, political, and cultural forces of the Reformation. In this book, a distinguished scholar--whose contributions to the field of religious studies have won him wide renown--explores this relationship, examining both the role of the Bible in the Reformation and the effect of the Reformation on the text of the Bible, Biblical studies, preaching and exegesis, and European culture in general. Jaroslav Pelikan begins by discussing the philological foundations of the "reformation" of the Biblical text, focusing on the revival of Greek and Hebrew language study and the important contributions to textual criticism by humanist scholars. He then examines the changing patterns of interpretation and communication of the Biblical text, the proliferation of vernacular versions of scripture and their impact on various national cultures, and the impact of the Reformation Bible on art, music, and literature of the period. The book is richly illustrated with examples of early printed editions of Bibles, commentaries, sermons, vernacular translations, and other works with Biblical themes, all of which are identified and discussed. The book serves as the catalog for a major exhibition of early Bibles and Reformation texts that has been organized at Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, and will also be shown at the Yale Center for British Art, the Houghton Library and the Widener Library at Harvard University, and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University.
Author | : John Laird Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Reformation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Wycliffe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Reformation |
ISBN | : |
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