A History of the Reformation (Volumes 1 and 2)

Topics librivox , audiobooks , history , religion , bible , church , Catholic , Protestant , Luther , Reformation , sixteenth century , swiss. Translated by Henry Beveridge. It tells of how the twenty-year-old Martin Luther, browsing through books in the library at the University of Erfurt, takes down from the shelf a particular volume that has caught his interest. He has never seen anything like it. It is a Bible!

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He is astonished to find in this volume so much more than the fragments of gospels and epistles that were selected for public reading in churches. He had believed that these constituted all there was of the word of God. But here he has discovered, in its entirety, the inspired book from which they came.

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And it was this discovery, in a dusty university library, that changed the course of history. The book has helped and encouraged Christians through difficult times, and given them an understanding of the background from which our freedom in the faith has come. The author was a Swiss Protestant pastor. He was also a historian with a great understanding of the Bible, along with a broad and deep knowledge of the Reformation.

Rather than merely tracing the emergence of trends that we associate with later Anglicanism, the contributors instead discuss the fluid and contested nature of the Church of England's religious identity in these years, and the different claims to what should count as "Anglican" orthodoxy.

After the introduction and narrative chapters explain the historical background, individual chapters then analyze different understandings of the early church and church history; variant readings of the meaning of the royal supremacy, the role of bishops and canon law, and cathedrals; the very diverse experiences of religion in parishes, styles of worship and piety, church decoration, and Bible usage; and the competing claims to "Anglican" orthodoxy of puritanism, "avant-garde conformity" and Laudianism. Also analyzed are arguments over the Church of England's confessional identity and its links with the foreign Reformed Churches, and the alternative models provided by English Protestant activities in Ireland, Scotland and North America.

The reforms of the s and s are included in their own right, and the volume concludes that the shape of the Restoration that emerged was far from inevitable, or expressive of a settled "Anglican" identity. Reformation, Identity, and 'Anglicanism' c. The Emergence of the Church of England c. The Church of England, , Peter Marshall 4.

Bishops, Church and State, c. The Godly Magistrate, Jacqueline Rose 7. Religion and the English Parish, J. Liturgy and Worship, Bryan D. Art and Iconoclasm, Felicity Heal Confessional Identity, Stephen Hampton Cathedrals, Ian Atherton Ireland and Scotland , John McCafferty British America to , Michael P.

Protestants and the Meanings of Church History , W.

The Cromwellian Church, Ann Hughes His publications include Catholic and Reformed: Spinks Stephen Taylor Michael P. For anyone wanting to gain a deeper understanding of the terrain of the current debates surrounding the English Reformation, this cannot be too highly recommended. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.