Reformation 500 : how the greatest revival since Pentecost continues to shape the world today / Ray Van Neste and J. Michael Garrett editors ; with contributions by Timothy George, David Lyle Jeffrey, Peter Leithart, Carl Trueman and other scholars.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garrett, J. Michael (Biblical scholar), editor.

Van Neste, Ray, editor.

George, Timothy, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestantism.

Reformation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages, 4 numbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : B&H Publishing Group, [2016]

Summary:

In a church rocked by controversies over vernacular Scripture, iconoclasm, and the power of clergy, men and women arose in protest. Today we call this protest movement the Protestant Reformation. At its heart, the Reformation was a great revival of the church centered on the recovery of biblical truth and the gospel of free grace. This movement continues to instruct and inspire believers even into the present day. Reformation 500 celebrates the Reformation and probes the ways it has shaped our world for the better. With essays from an array of disciplines, this book explores the impact of the Reformation across a wide range of human experience. Literature, education, visual art, culture, politics, music, theology, church life, and Baptist history all provide prisms through which the Reformation legacy is viewed. From Augustine to Zwingli, historical figures like Luther, Calvin, Barth, Bonhoeffer, Rembrandt, Bach, Bunyan, and Wycliffe all find their way into this amazing 500-year story. From Anglicans to Baptists, scientists to poets, Reformation 500 weaves these many historical threads into a modern-day tapestry. - Publisher.

Reformation 500 celebrates the Reformation and probes the ways it has shaped our world for the better. With essays from an array of disciplines-literature, education, visual art, culture, politics, music, theology, church life, and Baptist history-this books explores the impact of the Reformation across a wide range of human experience. Historical figures like Augustine, Zwingli, Luther, Calvin, Barth, Bonhoeffer, Rembrandt, Bach, Bunyan, and Wycliffe all find their way into this amazing 500-year story. From Anglicans to Baptists, scientists to poets, Reformation 500 weaves these historical threads into a modern-day tapestry.

Contents:

Introduction. Why are we celebrating the Reformation? / Ray Van Neste, J. Michael Garrett

"Reform our church all out of joint" : the Lollard Movement and the Medieval origins of the Reformation / Gavin Richardson

Anabaptist kinship revisited : implications for Baptist origins and identity / James A. Patterson

Baptists and Calvin today : the importance of the Reformation for Baptists / Timothy George

The sacred cross : Martin Luther and the marks of the true Church / Carl Trueman

"An introduction through which we are prepared for faith in the gospel..." : Augustine, Calvin, and the authority of the Church in Holy Scripture / Bradley G. Green

"Comfortable words" : reforming the Lord's Supper / Justin D. Barnard

The primacy of preaching in the English Reformation / Harry Lee Poe

Classical foundations, vernacular edifice : literature in the Reformation / David Lyle Jeffrey

The religious dissenter in Victorian fiction : Reformation themes in nineteenth century English novels / John Netland

The songs of the Reformation : leading the Church in worship / Christopher W. Mathews

Rembrandt van Rijn : painter of the Reformation / John Wilsey

The historical legacy of Luther / Henry Allen

Martin Luther and contemporary higher education in the United States / Gene C. Fant Jr.

Martin Luther and the question of political quietism / Hunter Baker

Impact of the Reformation upon the flowering of modern science / Jimmy H. Davis

A modern Reformation : Dietrich Bonhoeffer's quest for the "real Luther" / Taylor Worley

Christianity after "judaizing" : Reformation and modernity / Peter J. Leithart.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Reformation 500

ISBN:

9781433684999

1433684993