Tag: Reformation

Free Download Carina L. Johnson, "Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017 "
English | ISBN: 1785335405 | 2017 | 352 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting―instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their ramifications through the centuries, Archeologies of Confession carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality that have otherwise been lost or obscured.

Free Download Karen L. Bloomquist, "Radicalizing Reformation: North American Perspectives (6) "
English | ISBN: 3643907729 | 2016 | 310 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Radicalizing Reformation provides critical perspectives from North American theologians involved in the international project, "Radicalizing Reformation – Provoked by the Bible and Today’s Crises." This project explores the radical roots of what was ignited 500 years ago in order to bring more attention to the systemic challenges that must be addressed today, drawing from both the strengths and the weaknesses of the Reformation legacy. Authors in this all-English volume include: Brigitte Kahl, Paul S. Chung, Samuel Torvend, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Craig L. Nessan, Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Charles Amjad-Ali, Karl Koop, Wanda Deifelt, Vitor Westhelle, and Karen L. Bloomquist. Each article has been published in one of the previous five volumes. This volume also includes background on the overall project, the 94 theses, and a guide for discussion in local contexts. (Series: Radicalizing Reformation / Die Reformation Radikalisieren, Vol. 6) [Subject: Religious Studies]

Free Download Robert Christman, "The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in their Reformed Augustinian Context"
English | ISBN: 9463728627 | 2020 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
On 1 July 1523, Johann van den Esschen and Hendrik Voes, two Augustinian friars from Antwerp, were burned on the Grand Plaza in Brussels, thereby becoming the first victims of the Reformation. Despite being well-known, the event barely registers in most Reformation histories. By tracing its origins and examining the impact of the executions on Martin Luther, on the Reformed Augustinian world, and on the early Reformation in the Low Countries and the German speaking lands, this study definitively demonstrates that the burnings were in fact the dénouement of broader trends within Late Medieval Reformed Augustinianism, as well as a watershed in the early Reformation. In doing so, it also reveals the central role played by the Augustinian friars of Lower Germany in shaping both the content and spread of the early Reformation, as well as Wittenberg’s influence on the events leading up to these first executions.

Free Download Timothy J. Wengert, "Philip Melanchthon, Speaker of the Reformation: Wittenberg’s Other Reformer "
English | ISBN: 1409406628 | 2010 | 322 pages | EPUB | 1047 KB
The studies in this volume illuminate the thought and life of Philip Melanchthon, one of the most neglected major figures in Reformation history and theology. Melanchthon was one of the most widely published and respected thinkers in his own day, who authored some of the sixteenth-century’s most important books on Latin and Greek grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, and history, to say nothing of his theological output, which included the first overview of Protestant theology, the first Protestant commentaries on Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, and John. He was also the chief drafter of the Augsburg Confession and wrote its defense, the Apology. These essays, written over the past twenty years, commemorate the 450th anniversary of Melanchthon’s death in 2010. The articles provide a wide-ranging picture of Melanchthon’s thought and life with topics including his view of free will, approaches to biblical interpretation, his perspective on the church fathers and world history, and comparisons to other important figures of the age, including Calvin, Luther and Erasmus.

Free Download Mark A. Lotito, "The Reformation of Historical Thought "
English | ISBN: 9004347941 | 2019 | 562 pages | PDF | 12 MB
In The Reformation of Historical Thought, Mark Lotito re-examines the development of Western historiography by concentrating on Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) and his universal history, Carion’s Chronicle (1532). With the Chronicle, Melanchthon overturned the medieval papal view of history, and he offered a distinctly Wittenberg perspective on the foundations of the "modern" European world. Through its immense popularity, the Chronicle assumed extraordinary significance across the divides of language, geography and confession. Indeed, Melanchthon’s intervention would become the point of departure for theologians, historians and jurists to debate the past, present and future of the Holy Roman Empire. Through the Chronicle, the Wittenberg reformation of historical thought became an integral aspect of European intellectual culture for the centuries that followed.

Free Download Matthew Phillpott, "The Reformation of England’s Past: John Foxe and the Revision of History in the Late Sixteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 1138605255 | 2018 | 230 pages | EPUB | 788 KB
This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation, and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist. The focus is on the pre-Lollard, medieval history in the first two editions of the Acts and Monuments. Comparison of the narrative that Foxe writes to the possible sources helps us to better understand what it was that Foxe was trying to do, and how he came to achieve his aims. A focus on sources also highlights the collaborative circle in which Foxe worked, recognizing the essential role of other scholars and clerics such as John Bale and Matthew Parker.

Free Download Eamon Duffy, "The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village"
English | ISBN: 0300091850 | 2001 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
The religious upheavals of the 16th century that transformed English rural life were captured by Sir Christopher Trychay, the priest of Morebath, Devon, who recorded parish meetings between 1520 and 1574. Unlike most parish records, Trychay’s records are full of names, incidental details, opinions and prejudices. Interspersed throughout Duffy’s engaging narrative, itself packed with detail, are extracts from Trychay’s records, with modern English translations. These record life in a small, piously Catholic parish and the effects of enforced protestantism, the disastrous West Country Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549 and Elizabeth’s taxation.

Free Download Edward A Gosselin, "The Reformation: History in an Hour"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B00B1USMFS, B005IH0MT4 | EPUB | pages: 68 | 4.3 mb
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Free Download David H. Price, "In the Beginning Was the Image: Art and the Reformation Bible"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 019007440X | PDF | pages: 441 | 28.2 mb
This pioneering study focuses on the decisive contributions of the three leading artists of the Northern Renaissance-Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Hans Holbein the Younger- to the printed Bible and to the transformation of ecclesiastical art in the Protestant Reformation.

Free Download Jonathan Willis, "Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Reformation Europe"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 147243014X | EPUB | pages: 242 | 1.1 mb
In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation. The associated processes of dying, death and burial inevitably generated heightened emotion and a strong concern for religious propriety: the ways in which funerary customs were accepted, rejected, modified and contested can therefore grant us a powerful insight into the religious and social mindset of individuals, communities, Churches and even nation states in the post-reformation period. This collection provides an historiographical overview of recent work on dying, death and burial in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe and draws together ten essays from historians, literary scholars, musicologists and others working at the cutting edge of research in this area. As well as an interdisciplinary perspective, it also offers a broad geographical and confessional context, ranging across Catholic and Protestant Europe, from Scotland, England and the Holy Roman Empire to France, Spain and Ireland. The essays update and augment the body of literature on dying, death and disposal with recent case studies, pointing to future directions in the field. The volume is organised so that its contents move dynamically across the rites of passage, from dying to death, burial and the afterlife. The importance of spiritual care and preparation of the dying is one theme that emerges from this work, extending our knowledge of Catholic ars moriendi into Protestant Britain. Mourning and commemoration; the fate of the soul and its post-mortem management; the political uses of the dead and their resting places, emerge as further prominent themes in this new research. Providing contrasts and comparisons across different European regions and across Catholic and Protestant regions, the collection contributes to and extends the existing literature on this important historiographical theme.