Benjamin Allen's History of the Reformation: A Translation into Modern English
The 16th century Reformation was a most important and interesting event in human history. It was a revolution on the grandest scale with religious, political, and economic effects still with us today.
This is a modernized version of Benjamin Allen's classic 1820 book on the subject – essentially translating the work into current English to improve its readability and understandability.
Benjamin Allen (1789-1829) was an American church minister, scholar, and publisher. He died at sea aged 39.
History of the Reformation was his best-known publication. The book abridged Gilbert Burnet's massive account of the English Reformation published over a century earlier. It also provided significant new commentary and details of the lives of Luther, Calvin, and Zuingle and their roles in the continental Reformation movements.
CONTENTS
Editorial foreword
Preface
1: The start of the Reformation
2: From first asserting the King's supremacy to abolishing relics and shrines
3: Publishing the Bible and delivering written sermons
4: Cranmer and Henry
5: Edward and the Reformation
6: Reforming the liturgy
7: The Reformation supported and opposed
8: New religious appointments and alliances
9: Church and state
10: New ecclesiastical laws
11: Mary becomes Queen
12: General persecution begins
13: Persecution rages on
14: From executions of the lame and blind to the deaths of Mary and Poole
15: Elizabeth accedes and the Reformation succeeds
16: The life of Luther
17: The life of Calvin
18: The life of Zuingle
Appendix 1: The Lollards
Appendix 2: The origins of many corruptions in the Church of Rome
Appendix 3: Consubstantiation
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This is a modernized version of Benjamin Allen's classic 1820 book on the subject – essentially translating the work into current English to improve its readability and understandability.
Benjamin Allen (1789-1829) was an American church minister, scholar, and publisher. He died at sea aged 39.
History of the Reformation was his best-known publication. The book abridged Gilbert Burnet's massive account of the English Reformation published over a century earlier. It also provided significant new commentary and details of the lives of Luther, Calvin, and Zuingle and their roles in the continental Reformation movements.
CONTENTS
Editorial foreword
Preface
1: The start of the Reformation
2: From first asserting the King's supremacy to abolishing relics and shrines
3: Publishing the Bible and delivering written sermons
4: Cranmer and Henry
5: Edward and the Reformation
6: Reforming the liturgy
7: The Reformation supported and opposed
8: New religious appointments and alliances
9: Church and state
10: New ecclesiastical laws
11: Mary becomes Queen
12: General persecution begins
13: Persecution rages on
14: From executions of the lame and blind to the deaths of Mary and Poole
15: Elizabeth accedes and the Reformation succeeds
16: The life of Luther
17: The life of Calvin
18: The life of Zuingle
Appendix 1: The Lollards
Appendix 2: The origins of many corruptions in the Church of Rome
Appendix 3: Consubstantiation
Benjamin Allen's History of the Reformation: A Translation into Modern English
The 16th century Reformation was a most important and interesting event in human history. It was a revolution on the grandest scale with religious, political, and economic effects still with us today.
This is a modernized version of Benjamin Allen's classic 1820 book on the subject – essentially translating the work into current English to improve its readability and understandability.
Benjamin Allen (1789-1829) was an American church minister, scholar, and publisher. He died at sea aged 39.
History of the Reformation was his best-known publication. The book abridged Gilbert Burnet's massive account of the English Reformation published over a century earlier. It also provided significant new commentary and details of the lives of Luther, Calvin, and Zuingle and their roles in the continental Reformation movements.
CONTENTS
Editorial foreword
Preface
1: The start of the Reformation
2: From first asserting the King's supremacy to abolishing relics and shrines
3: Publishing the Bible and delivering written sermons
4: Cranmer and Henry
5: Edward and the Reformation
6: Reforming the liturgy
7: The Reformation supported and opposed
8: New religious appointments and alliances
9: Church and state
10: New ecclesiastical laws
11: Mary becomes Queen
12: General persecution begins
13: Persecution rages on
14: From executions of the lame and blind to the deaths of Mary and Poole
15: Elizabeth accedes and the Reformation succeeds
16: The life of Luther
17: The life of Calvin
18: The life of Zuingle
Appendix 1: The Lollards
Appendix 2: The origins of many corruptions in the Church of Rome
Appendix 3: Consubstantiation
This is a modernized version of Benjamin Allen's classic 1820 book on the subject – essentially translating the work into current English to improve its readability and understandability.
Benjamin Allen (1789-1829) was an American church minister, scholar, and publisher. He died at sea aged 39.
History of the Reformation was his best-known publication. The book abridged Gilbert Burnet's massive account of the English Reformation published over a century earlier. It also provided significant new commentary and details of the lives of Luther, Calvin, and Zuingle and their roles in the continental Reformation movements.
CONTENTS
Editorial foreword
Preface
1: The start of the Reformation
2: From first asserting the King's supremacy to abolishing relics and shrines
3: Publishing the Bible and delivering written sermons
4: Cranmer and Henry
5: Edward and the Reformation
6: Reforming the liturgy
7: The Reformation supported and opposed
8: New religious appointments and alliances
9: Church and state
10: New ecclesiastical laws
11: Mary becomes Queen
12: General persecution begins
13: Persecution rages on
14: From executions of the lame and blind to the deaths of Mary and Poole
15: Elizabeth accedes and the Reformation succeeds
16: The life of Luther
17: The life of Calvin
18: The life of Zuingle
Appendix 1: The Lollards
Appendix 2: The origins of many corruptions in the Church of Rome
Appendix 3: Consubstantiation
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| BN ID: | 2940186753100 |
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| Publisher: | Industrial Systems Research |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2022 |
| Series: | Liberal studies |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 224 KB |
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