Reassessing Reform: A Historical Investigation into Church Renewal

At the conclusion of his definitive study The Idea of Reform, which carved out reform as a distinct field of intellectual history, Gerhart Ladner stated that the idea of reform was "to remain the self-perpetuating core, the inner life spring of Christian tradition through lesser and greater times." Ladner himself sought to explore patristic theology and early Christian monasticism, and his insights laid the groundwork for a half-century of scholarship. Now, in celebration of the fiftieth an...