Seminar in Church History: Reformation History

BHIS 449

Harding University

Spring 2006

 

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:00-11:50 a.m.         

MCIN 350

 

Instructor: Dr. K. D. Stanglin

Office phone: 279-4620

Email: kstanglin@harding.edu

Website: www.harding.edu/kstanglin

Office hours: MW 3:00-4:00; TR 11:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00; MCIN 209

Office phone, hours, and email should suffice for class business.  Please don’t call me at home unless there is an emergency.

 

Course Description:

A study of the social, political, economic, and religious dimensions of the Protestant Reformation and the impact of the Reformation on Western culture.

 

Course Objectives:

In light of the College’s mission and learning objectives highlighted above, the student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

1)      Highlight a) the interplay of social, political, economic, and religious forces during the Protestant Reformation and b) the impact of the Reformation on Western culture.

2)      Demonstrate the skill of analyzing primary and secondary sources and the skill of orally presenting your analysis.

3)      Demonstrate the skill of writing a good research paper.

4)      Express the value of the continuity of the present-day church with the historic Western Christian tradition.

 

Course Textbooks:

 

Required Texts:

 

Hillerbrand, Hans J., ed. The Protestant Reformation. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.  (H)

 

Lindberg, Carter. The European Reformations. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

 

Recommended Texts:

 

Bettenson, Henry, ed. Documents of the Christian Church. 2nd ed. OUP, 1963.

 

Ignatius of Loyola. The Spiritual Exercises. Any edition. Available at www.ccel.org 

 

Schaff, Philip. The Creeds of Christendom, vol. 3. Available at www.ccel.org 

 

Works of James Arminius, vol. 1. London edition. Trans. James Nichols. 1825; repr., 1986.

 

Zwingli and Bullinger. Ed. Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1953.

 

Attendance Policy:

Students are expected to attend classes regularly.  There should be no “cuts” in here.  In the event of illness, family emergency, a school-sponsored activity or an extenuating circumstance, it is the responsibility of the student to notify the instructor as soon as possible of the reason for the absence.  A doctor’s note is required for excusing personal illness.  If the excuse is online, print it out and bring me a hard copy for my records.  N.B.: Excuses will not be accepted after “dead week.”

 

According to the policies stated in the university catalog (p. 25), three unexcused absences are allowed in this class.  Each additional absence above three automatically reduces your final grade by three percentage points.

 

You will be considered tardy if you are not present when I check the roll or if you leave during class.  2 tardies = 1 unexcused absence.

 

Academic Honesty:

Harding University places a high priority on honesty and a biblical commitment to truth.  Incidents of cheating, plagiarism, or any other activities deemed dishonest will result in penalties.  These penalties may range from failing the assignment to failing the course or dismissal from the school.  (According to Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, to “plagiarize” is to steal and use as one’s own the ideas, words, etc., of another.  Moreover, cheating includes collaborating on work that is to be done and turned in individually.)

 

Students with Disabilities:

It is the policy for Harding University to accommodate students with disabilities, pursuant to federal and state law.  Therefore, any student with a documented disability condition (e.g. physical, learning, psychological, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations, must contact the instructor and TRIO Student Support Services at the beginning of each semester.  (If the diagnosis of the disability occurs during the academic year, the student must self-identify with the Disabilities Director as soon as possible in order to get academic accommodations in place for the remainder of the semester.)  The TRIO Student Support Services office is located in Room 109 of the Lee Academic Center, telephone, (501) 279-4028.

 

Classroom Expectations and Decorum:

I expect all students to behave in a Christian manner in and out of the classroom.  Also, turn off all cell phones and pagers.  I must not see any cell phones during tests.  Do not eat food in the classroom.  Only drinks in spill-proof containers are allowed in class.  If you make a mess, it is your responsibility to clean it up or pay for it to be cleaned.

 

Class will be dismissed when I finish, not necessarily when the bell rings.

 

Course Requirements:

  1. Reading and class participation.  You are expected to complete all assigned readings prior to the class meetings.  The lectures will assume you have read the assignments, and part of the grade is dependent on your participation in discussing the readings.  Evaluation criterion: Demonstrate your preparedness.  Sign a statement declaring that you read all assigned readings.
  2. Four analysis papers: 40 pts.  Analyze any 4 of the 13 designated groups of primary readings, and turn in the analyses at the beginning of class on their due dates (no more than one per week).  Typed analysis papers may be single-spaced, and should be 350-450 words in length.  Each paper should address and answer at least the following issues about at least one of the assigned documents: who the author is, the occasion of the document, what the author is trying to accomplish, how he develops his argument (structure), whether he is pointing out a new direction for theology or simply supporting the traditional system, and implications in the subsequent history of theology. 

Do not use secondary research to write the paper, unless you want to learn about the author and the document’s occasion.  Treat these papers similar to short exegeses.  Do not include judgments about a writer’s orthodoxy, unless it is addressed in the document and done in comparison with his contemporaries.  Be an objective historian.  Evaluation criteria: Careful reading and insight.  (Grade of 3 = superior performance.  2 = average to good.  1 = you misinterpreted or missed a major point.)  Late papers will not be accepted. 

  1. Two seminar papers: 60 pts.  On two designated weeks of your choosing, write a paper (800-1,000 words, single-spaced) that analyzes and discusses all the primary readings for that week.  In addition to the guidelines applicable to analysis papers, focus on key interpretive issues (see questions in schedule).  The paper should conclude with at least two questions or issues for further class discussion.  On the presentation day, you will provide copies of your paper to each member of the seminar and present your thoughts to the class.  Be ready to take questions from the seminar members.  Late papers/presentations are unacceptable.
  2. Research paper: 140 pts.  Write an original research paper (1,800-2,200 words) on the topic of your choice. 

1) You may examine a particular thinker, idea, or event of the Reformation era.  Or…

2) You may discuss the impact of the Reformation on a particular area of life, church, art, family, worship, or confessions and catechisms, etc.  You may trace the influence of a particular thinker, event, or doctrine.  I want to know how the Reformation impacted a particular area of life of interest to you.  See Lindberg, ch. 15, for ideas. 

Use at least two primary sources, and at least eight secondary sources.  (At least three of these secondary sources must be from journal articles.)  The paper should demonstrate that you read and interacted with these sources.  Use standard Turabian/Chicago Manual of Style footnotes.  Talk with me or email me about your topic before Spring Break.  Paper is due on Apr. 21, at 11:00 a.m.  Late papers will be reduced by one letter (e.g., A to B) for each class period late.  Papers will not be accepted after May 1.  Evaluation criteria: Thesis, style, interaction with sources.

  1. Annotated bibliography: 4 pts. A bibliography of at least five sources for your paper is due on April 3.
  2. Give a 15-20 minute presentation of your research paper: 6 pts.  Do not read your research paper to the class, but sum up your thesis and tell how you will defend it.  In other words, if someone asks you what your research paper is about, this is what you would say in 15 minutes.  Also, distribute to the class a one-page handout that includes an outline of your paper and any other relevant information.  Be ready to answer questions and take suggestions.  Evaluation criteria: Organization, oral.
  3. Three exams: 150 pts. (50 each).  Study: Lecture notes, readings, Lindberg.

 

Grading Scale:

Total points: 400.

 

90-100% = A     80-89 = B     70-79 = C     60-69 = D      0-59 = F

 

Course Schedule

 

Jan. 11             Introduction to course, syllabus.

 

Jan. 13             Lindberg, ch. 1.  Why study history?

 

Jan. 16                         NO CLASS.  MLK Day.

 

Jan. 18             Hillerbrand, xi-xxvii.  Complexity of History—What a mess! 

 

Jan. 20             Paper 1 on Boniface VIII, “Unam Sanctam,” available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-unam.txt, or in Bettenson, 115-6.

-What power did Boniface claim, and how did he defend it?

Martin Luther, “95 Theses,” available at http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/ninetyfive.html

 

Jan. 23             Lindberg, ch. 2.  Late medieval religion.

 

Jan. 25             Late medieval dissension. 

 

Jan. 27             Paper 2 on Luther, “Preface,” and Freedom of a Christian Man, in H, 1-28.

                        -From what is the Christian free?

Luther, “Invocavit Sermons,” in H, 29-37.

-To what did Luther ascribe the power of the Reformation?

 

Jan. 30                         Lindberg, ch. 3.  The question of “Forerunners” of the Reformation.

 

Feb. 1              Medieval councils and Renaissance. 

 

Feb. 3              Paper 3 on Luther, On Governmental Authority, in H, 43-63.

12 Articles and Luther, Friendly Admonition to Peace, in H, 63-87.

-About what were the peasants complaining?

 

Feb. 6              Lindberg, ch. 4.  Martin Luther – Life and Works.

 

Feb. 8              Lindberg, ch. 5.  Martin Luther – Theology.

 

Feb. 10            Paper 4 on Luther, “Preface to German Translation of the NT,” in H, 37-42.

Luther, Commentary on Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, in H, 87-107.

-What are merits of congruity and condignity?

 

Feb. 13            Exam 1

 

Feb. 15                        Lindberg, ch. 6.  Video – Luther.  Discussion. 

 

Feb. 17            Paper 5 on Zwingli, Commentary on True and False Religion, in H, 108-21.

-What is Z’s “wall of bronze,” and how does it affect his hermeneutics?

Zwingli, “An Exposition of the Faith,” in Zwingli and Bullinger, 239-62.  [on reserve]

-What does Zwingli say about purgatory and other controversial issues?

 

Feb. 20            Video – Luther.  Discussion. 

 

Feb. 22            Lindberg, ch. 7.  Zwingli. 

 

Feb. 24            Paper 6 on Grebel and Zürich Anabaptists: “Letter,” in H, 122-28.

-What is the basis for forbidding singing in the assembly?

“Schleitheim Articles,” in H, 129-36, and Riedemann, Account, in H, 143-46.

-What is the Anabaptist basis for pacifism?

“Articles or Charges against Michael Sattler.” Available at http://www.anabaptists.org/history/sattler.html

Augustin Würzlburger, in H, 137-42, and Elizabeth, “A letter,” in H, 146-52.

-Why were Anabaptists so widely hated and persecuted?

 

Feb. 27            Lindberg, ch. 8.  Radical Reformation.    

 

Mar. 1              Lindberg, ch. 9.  Life of Calvin. 

 

Mar. 3              Paper 7 on John Calvin, Reply to Sadoleto, in H, 153-72.

-How does Calvin define the true Church?

                        Calvin, Institutes (excerpts from Book III), in H, 178-213.

            -How does Calvin define predestination? 

 

Mar. 6              Lindberg, ch. 10.  Calvin – Theology.

 

Mar. 8              Calvin – Theology and Impact.    

 

Mar. 10                        Paper 8 on Calvin, “Ecclesiastical Ordinances,” in H, 172-78.

Calvin, Institutes (excerpts from Book IV), in H, 213-21.

-How should the church deal with public and private sin?

                        Philip Mornay, “A Defence of Liberty against Tyrants,” in H, 222-39.

                        -How does Mornay’s thought relate to U.S. history and political philosophy?

 

Mar. 12-18       SPRING BREAK!

 

Mar. 20            Deadline for Research Paper Topic

Lindberg, ch. 11.  Tyranny and Tolerance.     

 

Mar. 22                        Reading: Stanglin, “Faith Comes from What Is Heard,” Leaven (2004): 161-6. [handout]    

 

Mar. 24            Paper 9 on William Tyndale, “The NT in English,” in H, 240-47.

                        John Jewel, “An Apology for the Church of England,” in H, 247-57.

                        -How does Jewel defend the Church of England?

 

Mar. 27            Exam 2

 

Mar. 29                        Lindberg, ch. 13.  Early British reformists. 

 

Mar. 31            Paper 10 on “Of Predestination and Election,” Thirty-nine Articles XVII, at http://www.reform.org.uk/covenant/39.html#17, or in Schaff, vol. III: 497-9.

“Lambeth Articles,” in Schaff, III: 523-4.

-Do the Lambeth Articles say anything more than Article XVII?

Peter Baro, “Summary of Three Opinions concerning Predestination,” in Works of James Arminius (London edition), I: 89-100.  [handout]

-Compare and contrast the three opinions summarized by Baro.

 

Apr. 3              Annotated Bibliography Due.  Great Britain and France. 

 

Apr. 5              Rise of Protestant Orthodoxy.   

 

Apr. 7              Paper 11 on John Field and Thomas Wilcox, “Admonition,” in H, 257-66.

-What is the structure of this document, what contrasts are noted, and what changes do the authors propose under each point?

                        Richard Hooker, “Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity,” in H, 267-90.

                        -How does Hooker define the “good?”

 

Apr. 10                        Student Research Reports.

 

Apr. 12                        Lindberg, ch. 14.  Catholic Reformation. 

 

Apr. 14            Paper 12 on Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, “Rules to Have the True Sentiment of the Church Militant,” (sections 352-70, or rules 1-18).  Available at www.ccel.org and at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/loyola-spirex.html

-What does this document reveal about the nature of the Catholic Reformation?

                        “Heidelberg Catechism,” sections: Introduction (Q&A 1-2), The Sacraments: The Lord’s Supper (Q&A 75-85), On Thankfulness (Q&A 86-115); in Schaff, vol. III: 307-8, 332-49, and at http://www.crcna.org/whoweare/beliefs/confess_heidelberg.asp?WhoWeAreMenu

-What does this document reveal about the nature of the Protestant Reformation?

 

Apr. 17                        Student Research Reports.

 

Apr. 19                        Lindberg, ch. 12.  Arminius – Life and Works. 

 

Apr. 21                        RESEARCH PAPER DUE.  11:00 a.m.

 

Apr. 24            Arminius and Arminianism.

 

Apr. 26                        High Orthodoxy, Pietism, and Beyond. 

 

Apr. 28                        Paper 13 on Jacobus Arminius, “On Predestination,” in Declaration of Sentiments.  In Writings of James Arminius (American edition, 1853; 1956), vol. I: 211-51 [copy on reserve].  Also available at www.ccel.org 

-What are Arminius’ main arguments against unconditional predestination?

 

May 1              Lindberg, ch. 15.  Impact of Reformation. 

 

May 3              Concluding Thoughts.

 

May 5              Review.

 

Thursday, May 11, 8:00 am    Exam 3, Final.

General Bibliography for Reformation History

compiled by Dr. Keith D. Stanglin

 

General Reformation Studies

 

Aulen, Gustaf. Reformation and Catholicity. Muhlenberg Press, 1961.

 

Bainton, Roland. The Age of the Reformation. Van Nostrand, 1956.

 

            . The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Beacon, 1952.

 

Bettenson, Henry, ed. Documents of the Christian Church. 2nd ed. OUP, 1963.

 

Cameron, Euan. European Reformation. Oxford University Press, 1991.

 

Chadwick, Owen. The Reformation. Baltimore: Penguin, 1964.

 

Dykema, Peter A. and Heiko A. Oberman, eds. Anticlericalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 1993.

 

Estep, William R. Renaissance and Reformation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.

 

Gerrish, B. A. Old Protestantism and the New: Essays on the Reformation Heritage. Chicago, 1992.

 

Guggisberg, Hans R. and Gottfried G. Krodel. The Reformation in Germany and Europe: Interpretations and Issues. Gütersloh: Gütersloh Verlagshaus, 1993.

 

Hillerbrand, Hans. Christendom Divided. Westminster, 1971.

 

            . The Reformation: A Narrative History Related by Contemporary Observers and Participants. Harper and Row, 1964.

 

            . The World of the Reformation. Charles Scribner and Sons, 1973.

 

            , ed. The Protestant Reformation. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

 

Lindberg, Carter. The European Reformations. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

 

Lindberg, Carter, ed. Piety, Politics, and Ethics. Northwest Missouri State University, 1984.

 

Mackinnon, James. The Origins of the Reformation. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1939.

 

Muller, Richard A. Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1985.

 

Oberman, Heiko A. The Dawn of the Reformation: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

 

            . The Impact of the Reformation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.

 

            . Reformation: Roots and Ramification. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.

 

            . The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of the Renaissance and Reformation. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.

 

            , ed. Forerunners of the Reformation: The Shape of Late Medieval Thought Illustrated by Key Documents. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981.

 

Old, Hughes Oliphant. The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

 

O’Malley, John, ed. Catholicism in Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research. St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1988.

 

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. 4 vols. Ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

 

Ozment, Steven. Age of Reform: 1250–1550. Yale University Press, 1980.

 

            . Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution. Doubleday, 1992.

 

            . The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.

 

            . When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.

 

            , ed. Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research. St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1982.

 

            . The Reformation in Medieval Perspective. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.

 

            . Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation. Harvard, 1987.

 

Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Reformation of the Bible. Yale University Press, 1996.

 

Schaff, Philip. The Creeds of Christendom, vol. 3. Available at www.ccel.org 

 

Southern, R. W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Baltimore: Penguin, 1970.

 

 

Luther and the Lutheran Reformation

 

Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand. Pierce and Smith, 1950.

 

Brady, Thomas A., Jr. Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) and the German Reformation. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities, 1995.

 

Ebeling, Gerhard. Luther: An Introduction to His Thought. 1970.

 

Erikson, Erik. Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History. 1958.

 

Kolb, Robert. Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord. Lutheran Quarterly Books. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.

 

Lindberg, Carter. Beyond Charity: Reformation Initiatives for the Poor. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

 

Luther, Martin. Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings. Ed. John Dillenberger. 1962.

 

Mackinnon, James. Luther and the Reformation. 1962.

 

Oberman, Heiko A. Luther: Man between God and the Devil. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

 

Pelikan, Jaroslav. Obedient Rebels: Catholic Substance and Protestant Principle in Luther’s Reformation. SCM Press, 1964.

 

            . Spirit versus Structure: Luther and the Institutions of the Church. Harper and Row, 1968.

 

Preus, James S. Carlstadt’s “Ordinaciones” and Luther’s Liberty: A Study of the Wittenberg Movement 1521-22. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.

 

Sider, Ronald J. Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt: The Development of His Thought 1517-25. Leiden: Brill, 1974.

 

            . Karlstadt’s Battle with Luther: Documents in a Liberal-Radical Debate. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978.

 

Steinmetz, David C. Luther in Context. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995. 

 

Tracy, James D., ed. Luther and the Modern State in Germany. Kirksville: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1986.

 

 

Calvin, Reformed Theology, and the Continental Reformation

 

Arminius, Jacobus. Works of James Arminius, 3 vols. London edition. Trans. James Nichols. 1825; repr., 1986. Available at www.ccel.org

 

Bangs, Carl. Arminius: A Study in the Dutch Reformation. Nashville: Abingdon, 1971; reprint, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1998.

 

Battles, Ford Lewis. Interpreting John Calvin. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1996.

 

Bierma, Lyle, et al. An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism: Sources, History, and Theology. Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005.

 

Bouwsma, William J. John Calvin: A Sixteenth Century Portrait. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

 

Bromiley, Geoffrey W., ed. Zwingli and Bullinger. Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1953.

 

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Any edition. Available at www.ccel.org

 

Cottret, Bernard. Calvin: A Biography. Trans. M. Wallace McDonald. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

 

Dowey, Edward A., Jr. The Knowledge of God in Calvin’s Theology. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.

 

Fesko, John V. Diversity within the Reformed Tradition: Supra- and Infralapsarianism in Calvin, Dort, and Westminster. Greenville, SC: Reformed Academic Press, 2001.

 

Ganoczy, Alexandre. The Young Calvin. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987.

 

George, Timothy, ed. John Calvin and the Church: A Prism of Reform. Westminster Press.

 

Gerrish, B. A. Grace and Gratitude: The Eucharistic Theology of John Calvin. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

 

Greef, Wulfert de. The Writings of John Calvin: An Introductory Guide. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1993.

 

Helm, Paul. Calvin and the Calvinists. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1982.

 

Holwerda, David. Exploring the Heritage of John Calvin. 1976.

 

Kingdon, Robert M. Myths about the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacres, 1572-1576. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.

 

            , ed. Transition and Revolution: Problems and issues of European Renaissance and Reformation History. Minneapolis: Burgess, 1974.

 

McCoy, Charles S. and J. Wayne Baker. The Fountainhead of Federalism: Heinrich Bullinger and the Covenantal Tradition. Westminster John Knox Press, 1991.

 

McKee, Elsie Anne. John Calvin on the Diaconate and Liturgical Almsgiving. Geneva: Droz, 1984.

 

McKim, Donald K., ed. Major Themes in the Reformed Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

 

McNeill, J. T. History and Character of Calvinism. 1954.

 

Muller, Richard A. God, Creation and Providence in the Thought of Jacob Arminius: Sources and Directions of Scholastic Protestantism in the Era of Early Orthodoxy. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1991.

 

            . Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. 4 volumes. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2003.

 

            . The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

 

Olson, Jeannine. Calvin and Social Welfare: Deacons and the “Bourse francaise.” Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1989.

 

Parker, T. H. L. Calvin’s Preaching. Westminster Press, 1992.

 

            . John Calvin: A Biography. 1975.

 

Pettegree, Andrew, et al., eds. Calvinism in Europe 1540-1620. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

 

Trueman, Carl R. and R. S. Clark, eds. Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1999.

 

Venema, Cornelis P. Heinrich Bullinger and the Doctrine of Predestination: Author of “the Other Reformed Tradition”? Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.

 

Walker, Williston. John Calvin: The Organizer of Reformed Protestantism (1509–1564). 1906; repr., New York: Schocken, 1969.

 

Wendel, François. Calvin: Origins and Development of His Religious Thought. Trans. Philip Mairet. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1997.

 

 

Reformation and the British Isles

 

Bray, Gerald, ed. Documents of the English Reformation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

 

Foxe, John. Fox’s Book of Martyrs. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1926.

 

Kendall, R. T. Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649. 2nd edition. Paternoster Biblical and Theological Monographs. Carlisle, Cumbria: Paternoster Press, 1997.

 

MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cranmer: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

 

McKim, Donald K. Ramism in William Perkins’ Theology. New York and Bern: Peter Lang, 1987.

 

Porter, H. C. Reformation and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge. Cambridge: University Press, 1958.

 

Tyacke, Nicholas R. N. Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism, c. 1590-1640. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

 

Wallace, Dewey. Puritans and Predestination: Grace in English Protestant Theology, 1525-1695. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

 

 

Radical Reformation

 

Estep, W. R. The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

 

Rempel, John D. The Lord’s Supper in Anabaptism: A Study in the Christology of Balthasar Hubmaier, Pilgram Marpeck, and Dirk Philips. Waterloo: Herald, 1993.

 

Snyder, C. Arnold. Anabaptist History and Theology: An Introduction. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 1996.

 

Williams, George Hunston. The Radical Reformation. 3rd ed. Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Publishers, 1992.

 

Williams, George Hunston and Angel M. Mergal, eds. Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers. Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957.

 

 

Catholic Reform and the Counter-Reformation

 

Bagchi, David V. N. Luther’s Earliest Opponents: Catholic Controversialists 1518-1525. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.

 

Idigoras, J. Ignacio Tellechea. Ignatius of Loyola: The Pilgrim Saint. Trans. Cornelius Michael Buckley. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1994.

 

Ignatius of Loyola. The Spiritual Exercises. Any edition. Available at www.ccel.org 

 

Jedin, Hubert. A History of the Council of Trent. 2 vols. St. Louis: B. Herder, 1957.

 

O’Malley, John W. The First Jesuits. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

 

 

Academic Journals pertaining to Reformation

 

Calvin Theological Journal

Church History

Dutch Review of Church History

Journal of Theological Studies

Scottish Journal of Theology

Sixteenth Century Journal

Trinity Journal

Westminster Theological Journal