The deep impact of sixteenth-century religion on European society can still be felt in our own time. In this profound but lively study the movements inspired by Luther, Zwingli and Calvin are descr…
Interrelationships between Protestantism and the rise of capitalism have been explored and a solid base of social and economic data gradually accumulated over the past several decades. Monumental c…
Huldrych Zwingli was widely known as a humanist and admirer of Erasmus when he came to Zurich from Glarus and Einsiedeln in 1519. The stages of the Zwinglian Reformation there were marked by the at…
A church reformed and always reforming, according to the word of God means that the truly Reformed church continues to live by the word of God from age to age, applies it to every aspect of her lif…
Heinrich Bullinger stands as one of the most influential Reformers and also one of the most neglected. This book is the first available in English to offer a broad introduction to Bullinger's life …
Until now there has been no single anthology of the most important Reformation documents. Janz, a well-known scholar in the area, aims to remedy that lack with this carefully edited anthology of ne…
“A bold synthesis of intellectual and social history which explains the appeal of Protestantism to the German and Swiss cities, the media of its communication, and the means of its establishment.…
By examining the ongoing tension between popular and official religion in Europe, this collection of essays contributes significantly to the continuing effort to understand the religious experience…
The reformation has its inception in the search for the answer to a typically medieval question, how can I saved? The answer with Luther found after years of inner conflict, prayer and study involv…
The period of history under consideration is of such momentous importance and so full of detail that the historian may well be baffled by the difficulty of selecting what is really relevant to his …