Reformation Thought

Reformation Thought is an acclaimed and popular introductory guide to the central ideas of the European reformation for theology and history students.

ISBN 0631215212   Pages 344 ISBN13 9780631215219 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 516 Imprint Blackwell Publishers   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780631186519 Publication date 01 Dec 1999   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 99025163   Width (mm) 154 DEWEY 270.6   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate

		Preface to the Third Edition
		How to Use this Book
1		Introduction		1
2		Late Medieval Religion		26
3		Humanism and the Reformation		39
4		Scholasticism and the Reformation		66
5		The Reformers: A Biographical Introduction		86
6		The Doctrine of Justification by Faith		101
7		The Doctrine of Predestination		132
8		The Return to Scripture		145
9		The Doctrine of the Sacraments		169
10		The Doctrine of the Church		197
11		The Political Thought of the Reformation		219
12		The Diffusion of the Thought of the Reformation		235
13		The Thought of the English Reformation		249
14		The Impact of Reformation Thought upon History		261
App. 1		A Glossary of Theological and Historical Terms		279
App. 2		English Translations of Major Primary Sources		287
App. 3		Standard Abbreviations of Major Journals and Sources		290
App. 4		How to Refer to Major Primary Sources		293
App. 5		Referring to the Psalms in the Sixteenth Century		297
App. 6		Updating Reformation Bibliographies		299
App. 7		Chronology of Political and Intellectual History		303
		Notes		308
		Select Bibliography		317
		Index		325

"Alister McGrath... is one of the best scholars and teachers of the Reformation... [this book] is more than one dared ask for... How teachers will rejoice in this wonderfully useful book." Teaching History (of a previous edition). "Vigorous, brisk and highly stimulating. The reader will be thoroughly engaged from the outset, and considerably enlightened at the end." John Platt, Pembroke College, University of Oxford (of a previous edition). "Highly recommended." Choice (of a previous edition). "A remarkably fine introduction to the study of the Reformation and its theological ideas; it is exceptionally well thought out, fully up to date in its scholarship, fair in its presentation, and simply pellucid in its explanations. Highly recommended." ADRIS (of a previous edition). "...this second edition of Reformation Tought is very useful, especially in providing a guide to reformation writings and writers (both primary and secondary) for the upper-division or beginning student of Reformation ideas." Elwood E. Mather III, Montana State University. "McGrath does a good job of summarizing the Reformation's principal ideas. Reformation Thought is a helpful primer and a genuine counterbalance to polemical Catholic treatments, excessively irenical ecumenical assessments, and secular renditions that minimize or ignore the power of theological ideas to revolutionize a culture." Catholic Dossier

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