Religious Thought in the Reformation

Abstract

Part 1 eve of the Reformation - anticipations of reform: Antipapalism growth of heresy conciliar movement Late medieval piety Humanism. Part 2 Desiderius Erasmus: humanist and biblical scholar Erasmus and the reformers Christ's philosophy Vox clamantis in deserto'. Part 3 Martin Luther: 1. religious revolutionary: age and the man Luther's experience Justification by faith alone Christian freedom Note on the indulgence controversy. Part 4 Martin Luther: 11. founder of Protestantism: authority of scripture church sacraments work and person of Christ God, providence and predestination Sin Man and society: the two kingdoms. Part 5 Huldrych Zwingli: Reform at Zurich Zwingli's biblical theology sovereignty of God and the mediation of Christ A disciplined church eucharistic controversy Oecolampadius and Bullinger. Part 6. Melanchthon and the development of Lutheranism: Loci Communes Augsburg Confession Melanchthon's Apology - synergism Melanchthon's later theology. Part 7 Calvin and reformed Christianity: 1. Strassburg and Geneva - Martin Bucer at Strassburg A mediating theology. Bucer and Calvin Geneva Calvin, humanist and reformer Christianae Religionis Institutio, 1536 A holy commonwealth. Part 8. Calvin and reformed Christianity: Il. A pattern of sound doctrine: Sola Scripture - Calvin as biblical exegete knowledge of God Predestination Christ, his person and his work church and the sacraments Note on Calvin's trinitarian doctrine. Part 9 radical Reformation: Be ye separate anabaptists spirituals rationalists. Part 10 Reformation in Britain: 1. Crisis Henrician catholicism Thomas Cranmer The True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament beginnings of Anglicanism Note on Bucer's De Regno Christi. Part 11 Reformation in Britain: 11. Consolidation: Elizabethan Settlement A twofold apologetic Richard Hooker origins of separatism Calvinist presbyterianism in Scotland. Part 12 Counter-Reformation: the Council of Trent - Catholic reform and revival - the Jesuit theologians summoning of the Council Sessions iii to vi - basic issues Sessions vii to xxv - the sacraments and other topics Trent and Protestantism.