A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2)

About this eBook

Author

Lindsay, Thomas M. (Thomas Martin), 1843-1914

Language

English

LoC Class

BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity

Subject

Socinianism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40615

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40615

Release Date

August 29, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Contents — Series Advertisement. — Dedication. — Preface. — Book I. On The Eve Of The Reformation.
2. 2.Chapter I. The Papacy. 1 — § 1. Claim to Universal Supremacy. — § 2. The Temporal Supremacy. — § 3. The Spiritual Supremacy.
3. 3.Chapter II. The Political Situation. 15 — § 1. The small extent of Christendom. — § 2. Consolidation. — § 3. England. — § 4. France. — § 5. Spain. — § 6. Germany and Italy. — § 7. Italy. — § 8. Germany.
4. 4.Chapter III. The Renaissance. 16 — § 1. The Transition from the Mediæval to the Modern World. — § 2. The Revival of Literature and Art. — § 3. Its earlier relation to Christianity. — § 4. The Brethren of the Common Lot. — § 5. German Universities, Schools, and Scholarship. — § 6. The earlier German Humanists. — § 7. The Humanist Circles in the Cities. — § 8. Humanism in the Universities. — § 9. Reuchlin. — § 10. The “ Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum. ” — § 11. Ulrich von Hutten.
5. 5.Chapter IV. Social Conditions. 47 — § 1. Towns and Trade. — § 2. Geographical Discoveries and the beginning of a World Trade. — § 3. Increase in Wealth and luxurious Living. — § 4. The Condition of the Peasantry. — § 5. Earlier Social Revolts. — § 6. The religious Socialism of Hans Böhm. — § 7. Bundschuh Revolts. — § 8. The Causes of the continuous Revolts.
6. 6.Chapter V. Family And Popular Religious Life in the Decades Before the Reformation. 67 — § 1. Devotion of Germany to the Roman Church. — § 2. Preaching. — § 3. Church Festivals. — § 4. The Family Religious Life. — § 5. A superstitious Religion based on Fear. — § 6. A non-Ecclesiastical Religion. — § 7. The “ Brethren. ”
7. 7.Chapter VI. Humanism And Reformation. 105 — § 1. Savonarola. — § 2. John Colet. — § 3. Erasmus. — Book II. The Reformation.
8. 8.Chapter I. Luther to the Beginning of the Controversy About Indulgences. 130 — § 1. Why Luther was successful as the Leader in a Reformation. — § 2. Luther's Youth and Education. — § 3. Luther in the Erfurt Convent. — § 4. Luther's early Life in Wittenberg. — § 5. Luther's early Lectures in Theology. — § 6. The Indulgence-seller.
9. 9.Chapter II. From The Beginning of the Indulgence Controversy to the Diet of Worms. 152 — § 1. The Theory and Practice of Indulgences in the Sixteenth Century. — § 2. Luther's Theses. 162 — § 3. The Leipzig Disputation. 167 — § 4. The Three Treatises. 171 — § 5. The Papal Bull. — § 6. Luther the Representative of Germany.
10. 10.Chapter III. The Diet Of Worms. 176 — § 1. The Roman Nuncio Aleander. — § 2. The Emperor Charles v. — § 3. In the City of Worms. — § 4. Luther in Worms. — § 5. Luther's first Appearance before the Diet of Worms. 222 — § 6. Luther's Second Appearance before the Diet. — § 7. The Conferences. — § 8. The Ban. — § 9. Popular Literature. — § 10. The Spread of Luther's Teaching. — § 11. Andrew Bodenstein of Carlstadt. 309 — § 12. Luther back in Wittenberg.
11. 11.Chapter IV. From The Diet of Worms to the Close Of the Peasants' War. — § 1. The continued spread of Lutheran Teaching. — § 2. The beginnings of Division in Germany. — § 3. The Peasants' War. 319 — § 4. The Twelve Articles. — § 5. The Suppression of the Revolt. — § 6. Luther and the Peasants' War. — § 7. Germany divided into two separate Camps.
12. 12.Chapter V. From The Diet Of Speyer, 1526, To The Religious Peace Of Augsburg, 1555. — § 1. The Diet of Speyer, 1526. 326 — § 2. The Protest. 329 — § 3. Luther and Zwingli. — § 4. The Marburg Colloquy. 331 — § 5. The Emperor in Germany. — § 6. The Diet of Augsburg 1530. 337 — § 7. The Augsburg Confession. 342 — § 8. The Reformation to be crushed. — § 9. The Schmalkald League. 353 — § 10. The Bigamy of Philip of Hesse. 357 — § 11. Maurice of Saxony. — § 12. Luther's Death. — § 13. The Religious War. 364 — § 14. The Augsburg Interim. 365 — § 15. Religious Peace of Augsburg. 368
13. 13.Chapter VI. The Organisation Of Lutheran Churches. 372
14. 14.Chapter VII. The Lutheran Reformation Outside Germany. 385
15. 15.Chapter VIII. The Religious Principles Inspiring The Reformation. 386 — § 1. The Reformation did not take its rise from a Criticism of Doctrines. — § 2. The universal Priesthood of Believers. — § 3. Justification by Faith. — § 4. Holy Scripture. — § 5. The Person of Christ. — § 6. The Church. — Index. — Footnotes

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