The European reformations / Carter Lindberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindberg, Carter, 1937- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation.

Church history--15th century.

Church history.

Counter-Reformation.

Reformation--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxii, 410 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2021]

Summary:

Amongst the authoritative works covering the European Reformation, Carter Lindberg's, The European Reformations has stood the test of time. Widely used in classrooms around the world for over twenty-five years, the first two editions of the book were enjoyed and acclaimed by students and teachers alike. --

Now, the revised and updated Third Edition of The European Reformations continues the author's work to sketch the various efforts to reform received expressions of faith and their social and political effects, both historical and modern. He has expanded his coverage of women in the Reformations and added a chapter on reforms in East-Central Europe. --

Comprehensively covering all of Europe, The European Reformations provides an in-depth exploration of the Reformations effects on a wide variety of countries. The author discusses: --

The late Middle Ages and the historical context in which the Reformations gained a foothold --

Martin Luther, the theological and pastoral responses to insecurity, and the theological implications of those responses --

The implementation of reforms in Wittenberg, Germany --

Zwingli's reform program, the Reformation in Zurich, Switzerland, and the impact of medieval sacramental theology --

The Genevan Reformation and "The Most Perfect School of Christ" --Book Jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: History and Historiography

Interpretations of the Reformations

Suggestions for Further Reading

Agrarian Crisis, Famine, and Plague

Towns and Cities: Loci of Ideas and Change

The Printing Press

Of Mines and Militancy

Social Tensions

The Crisis of Values

The Western Schism

Conciliarism

Anticlericalism and the Renaissance Papacy

Electronic Resources

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Theological and Pastoral Responses to Insecurity

Theological Implications

Indulgences: The Purchase of Paradise

The Squeaky Mouse

Politics and Piety

From the Diet of Worms to the Land of the Birds

The Diet of Worms

In the Land of the Birds

Melanchthon: Teacher of Germany

Karlstadt and Proto-Puritanism

Bishops, Clerical Marriage, and Strategies for Reform

The Gospel and Social Order

Late Medieval Poor Relief

Beyond Charity

The Institutionalization of Social Welfare

Bugenhagen and the Spread of Evangelical Social Welfare

Education for Service to God and Service to the Neighbor

The Catechisms and Christian Vocation

Was the Early Reformation a Failure?

"Brother Andy"

Thomas Muntzer

Muntzer's Origins and Theology

Muntzer's Historical Development

On to the Land of Hus

The Revolution of the Common Man, 1524-1526

The Role of Anticlericalism

Luther and the Peasants' War

The Affair of the Sausages

Zwingli's Beginnings

Magistracy and Church in Zurich

Zwingli's Reform Program

Excursus: Medieval Sacramental Theology

The Marburg Colloquy, 1529

The Anabaptists

Excursus: Reformation Understandings of Baptism

Zurich Beginnings

Anabaptist Multiplicity

The Munster Debacle

The Subversive Piety of the Spiritualists

The Trail of Worms

The Diet of Worms, 1521

The Diet of Speyer, 1526

The Diet of Speyer, 1529

The Diet of Augsburg, 1530, and the Augsburg Confession

The Right of Resistance to the Emperor

Reformation Ecumenism, War, and the Peace of Augsburg

John Calvin (1509-1564)

Journey to Geneva

The Reformation in Geneva

Sojourn in Strasbourg

Geneva under Calvin, 1541-1564

Calvin's Consolidation of His Authority

The Servetus Case

Protestant Mission and Evangelism: The "International Conspiracy"

The Shield of Humanism

Evangelical Progress and Persecution

Calvin's Influence in France

The Colloquy of Poissy, 1561

The Wars of Religion, 1562-1598

The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

"Paris is Worth a Mass"

"La Secte Lutheriane"

Dissident Movements

The Rise of Calvinism and the Spanish Reaction

A Godly Society?

Anticlericalism and Lutheran Beginnings

The King's Great Matter

Passions, Politics, and Piety

Edward VI and Protestant Progress

Mary Tudor and Protestant Regress

Elizabeth I and the Via Media

Mary Stuart (1542-1587) and the Reformation in Scotland

Bohemia

Livonia

Prussia and Poland

Antitrinitarian Developments

Slovakia and Hungary

Late Medieval Renewal Movements

The Index and the Inquisition

Loyola and the Society of Jesus

The Council of Trent, 1545-1563

Confessionalization

Politics

Culture

The Reformations and Women

Toleration and the "Other"

Economics, Education, and Science

Literature and the Arts

Back to the Future: The Reformations and Modernity

Chronology

Genealogies

The House of Valois and Bourbon, to 1610

The family of Charles V

The English crown, 1485-1603

Ottoman sultans, 1451-1648

Popes, 1492-1605

Europe about 1500

Germany at the time of the Reformations

The Empire of Charles V

The Ottoman Empire

The Portuguese and Spanish overseas empires

Religious divisions in Europe about 1600.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lindberg, Carter, The European reformations

ISBN:

9781119640813

1119640814

OCLC:

1196820910

Publisher Number:

99987944517