To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, along with the 25th anniversary of Modern Reformation magazine, over forty articles have been compiled together into one book to offer readers
The Reformation transformed England forever. From peasants in the lanes and fields to the court of Henry VIII, no life was left untouched as the Roman Catholic Church was replaced as the centre of the
Historians and religious scholars look at aspects of the Reformation in light of current thinking that it was a chronologically long, geographically broad, and greatly variably phenomenon. The topics
Engaging thematic chapters explore the events that shattered the unity of the Medieval Catholic Church, and the explosive era of religious and philosophical reform that followed.
Western social scientists, only one a scholar of religion, explore the analogy of the Christian Reformation used by Muslim authors and Western observers of Islamic reform movements since the 19th cent
Offers a brief overview of medieval Europe, discusses the Renaissance's influence on the Reformation, and looks at the lives and accomplishments of Luther, Wycliffe, Zwingli, and Calvin