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The German People and the Reformation
"In the past, scholars tended to treat the Reformation as a chapter in the history of ideas, emphasizing the thought of the major reformers and the changes in Christian doctrine. Today, however, more and more historians are asking how the revolution in theology affected the lives of ordinary men and women. Aware that religious faith is part of the larger cultural and material universe of early modern Europeans, these scholars have exploited hitherto neglected sources in an attempt to reconstruct the people's Reformation. The twelve essays commissioned for this collection represent the broad spectrum of recent scholarship in the social history of the German Reformation. Historians from variou...
The New Reformation
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The Reformation and Its Effects on Society
Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Didactics - Theology, Religion Pedagogy, grade: 4, , language: English, abstract: In this paper, I will endeavor to provide a historical overview of the reformation and the factors that led to the reformation. I will also highlight a few men who challenged and exposed corruption in the church prior to the onset of the larger reformation movement. These men usually met catastrophic endings, but they were the forerunners of the reformation. They were way ahead of their time. Next, I will examine the reformation era as I tried to delineate why the reformation was necessary and inevitable. You will see why the reformation was successful compared to...
The Catholic Reformation
This book provides a comprehensive history of the Counter-Reformation in early modern Europe, It is an indispensable new survey which provides a wide-ranging overview of the religious, political and cultural history of the time.
Forerunners of the Reformation
Oberman's magisterial work transfers discussion of late medieval Christian thought from the private studies of the specialist to more general use and understanding, and explains the significance of the ideas of the time. Although this 'Late Medieval Reader' does not exhaust the riches of the period between the High Middle Ages and the Reformation era, it introduces the reader to aspects of such major themes as conciliarism, curialism, mysticism, scholasticism, the spirituality of the Devotio Moderna, and the impact of Renaissance humanism.The theme of the Forerunners has grown out of the consideration that the justified rejection of a confessional reading of the past has been succeeded by an equally unhistorical disjunction of the Medieval and Reformation periods. Without a grasp of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the medieval basis of modern thought is incomplete, since Reformation and Counter Reformation seem to arise 'out of the blue'.
