The roots of the Reformation : tradition, emergence and rupture / G. R. Evans ; cover design, Cindy Kiple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, G. R. (Gillian Rosemary), author.

Contributor:

Kiple, Cindy, designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages)

Edition:

Second edition

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2012]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Renowned historian G. R. Evans revisits the question of what happened at the Reformation. Contravening traditional paradigms of interpretation, Evans charts the controversies and challenges that roiled the era of the Reformation and argues that these are really part of a much longer history of discussion and disputation. Evans takes up several issues, such as Scripture, ecclesiology, authority, sacraments and ecclesio-political relations, and traces the shape of the charged discussions that orbited around these through the patristic, medieval and Reformation eras. In this, she demonstrates that in many ways the Reformation was in considerable continuity with the periods that preceded it, though the consequential outcome of the debates in the sixteenth century was dramatically different.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

A Note on the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1: Setting the Scene

Part One: Bible and Church

2: The Idea of Church

A New Idea

The Emergence of Ministers as Leaders

Local Churches and the Universal Church

3: The Idea of Faith

What Do We Believe? Trying to Put the Faith in a Nutshell

One Faith and Different Rites

4: Where Was the Bible?

Adding to the Old Testament

Creating a Standard Text of the Bible for Use in the West

The Ministry of the Word in the Early Church

Finding Many Meanings in Scripture

5: Becoming and Remaining a Member of the Church

The Doctrine of Baptism Emerges

Insiders and Outsiders: Cyprian and the Rigorist Approach to the Problem of Apostasy

6: Penance and the Recurring Problem of Sin

7: The Eucharist and the Idea of Sacraments

Eucharist

Sacraments

8: Organization, Making Decisions and Keeping Together

Councils and Other Ways of Making Decisions

The Fifteenth-Century Bid for Conciliarism Instead of Primatial Government of the Church

9: The Church and the State

The Two Swords

The Body Politic, the City, the Corporation and the Church

Titles and Benefices and the Growing Problem of the Church's Wealth

Part Two: Continuity and Change in the Middle Ages

10: Monastic Life, Monastic Education and Awakening Social Concerns

Guibert of Nogent: Monk and Social Commentator

Monasteries as Powerhouses of Education

11: The Beginning of Academic Theology and the Invention of Universities

The Invention of Universities

Bible Study and the Beginning of Academic Theology

12: The Evangelical Urge and the Wandering Preachers

Preaching Becomes Popular Again

The Formal Rhetorical Art of Preaching

The Franciscans and the Dominicans.

13: Religious Experiments by the Laity

Working People, Active Orders

Exemplary Individuals and Being an Example to Others

Glimpses of Ordinary Lives: Learning What to Believe and How to Live

The Church Fosters the Mixed Life

14: Rebels, Repression and the Stirrings of Reform

Social Comment and the Debate About Poverty

John Wyclif

John Hus

Part Three: Continuity and Change from the Reformation

15: Renaissance

The Rediscovery of the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures

The Biblical Languages and the Universities

Humanism or Scholasticism: The Two Ways

16: Luther and His Heirs

The Conversion of Martin Luther and Its Consequences

Melanchthon, Moderation and Building a Bridge Between the Academic and the Popular

Creating a Lutheran Doctrinal System

17: Henry VIII and the English Reformation

18: Peaceful Extremists?

Huldreich Zwingli and the Battle with the Anabaptists

Lutheran "Good Citizens" and Anabaptist "Anarchy"

19: Calvin and His Heirs

John Calvin

France, Huguenots and Some Notable Women

John Knox and Scotland

The English Reformation Turns Reformed

Puritans Leave for the New World

20: The Counter-Reformation

Responding to the Challenge: Reforming Moves in Rome

Science and the Bible from a Roman Catholic Perspective

21: Church and State Again

22: Bible Questions Continue

Wrestling with the Humanity of Scripture

Textual Difficulties and Translation Issues

The Style and Obscurity of Scripture

Increasingly Radical Divergences of Opinion and Practice

Conclusion

What Stayed the Same?

What Was the Essential Characteristic of the Change?

Handlist of Reformation Concerns and Their History

The Bible and Believing

The Idea of Church

The Problem of Ministry

How Many Sacraments?

The Unity of the Church and Its Relation to Society.

Lay Movements

Rebels, Dissidents and Repression

Select Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Author Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Notes

13: Religious Experiments by the Laity

About the Author

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Print version: Evans, G.R. (Gillian Rosemary) Roots of the Reformation.

ISBN:

9780830863310

0830863311

OCLC:

908513106