The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

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Beacon Press, Sep 30, 1985 - Religion - 304 pages
Bainton presents the many strands that made up the Reformation in a single, brilliantly coherent account. He discusses the background for Luther's irreparable breach with the Church and its ramifications for 16th Century Europe, giving thorough accounts of the Diet of Worms, the institution of the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII's break with Rome, and William the Silent's struggle for Dutch independence.
 

Contents

The Irreparable Breach
3
The Fight for Recognition of the Lutheran Faith
141
The Fight for Recognition of the Calvinist Faith
160
Comprehension and the Middle Way of Anglican
183
The Struggle for Religious Liberty
211
The Reformation and the Political Sphere
226
The Reformation and the Economic and Domestic
244
BIBLIOGRAPHY
262
INDEX
271
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Roland H. Bainton (1894-1984) was for forty-two years a professor of ecclesiastical history at Yale University, an author, a historian, and an ordained Congregational minister. During his long and distinguished academic career, he lectured across the United States and abroad and wrote more than thirty influential books on Christian history.

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