The Early Reformation on the Continent

by Owen Chadwick

Overview

Chadwick offers a fresh look at the formative years of the European Reformation and the origins of Protestant faith and practice. He arranges his material thematically, tracing the origins and development of each topic throughout the history of the western Church and providing an authoritative, accessible, and informative account.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199265787
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/09/2003
Series:	Oxford History of the Christian Church
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	9.38(w) x 5.98(h) x 0.93(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Book
2. The Bible
3. Scholarship and Religion
4. Death
5. The City
6. Conversion
7. Marriage of the Clergy
8. Monks and Nuns
9. The New Services
10. Church Order
11. Creed
12. Education
13. Divorce
14. In the country
15. Resistance justified
16. Radicals
17. Toleration
18. Unbelief

Editorial Reviews

"Chadwick provides a scholarly but sympathetic picture of the popes who had confronted the problems of secularization, the impositions of nationalism and liberalism, and the loss of the temporal power."

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