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Documents of the English Reformation
A compilation of fifty-eight of the essential contemporary documents of the English Reformation from 1526 to 1700, showing how the momentous changes of that period took place. An invaluable source for both students and scholars.
ISBN-13: 9780227172391 |
The Reformation period has long been seen as crucial in the development of the society and institutions of the English-speaking peoples, whilst the study of the Tudor and Stuart era stands at the heart of most courses in English history.
But while the influence of the Book of Common Prayer and the King James Version of the Bible created the modern English language, there has been no collection of contemporary documents available to show how the momentous social and political changes took place.
In his major and comprehensive collection, Gerald Bray has compiled a vast range of documents, covering the period of the English Reformation from 1526 to 1700. The book contains many texts that have been relatively inaccessible until now, along with others more widely known. In addition, the book provides a selection of highly informative appendixes, including comparative tables of the different articles and confessions, showing their mutual relationships and dependence.
Containing fifty-eight documents covering all the main Statutes, Injunctions and Orders, Prefaces to prayer books, Biblical translations and other relevant texts, Documents of the English Reformation provides an invaluable resource for students, and a useful aide memoire for scholars in the fields of theology, the English Church, and late medieval and early modern English history.
See the Complete Listing of Documents here.
"A timely collection of official formularies relating to the English Reformation"
The Expository Times
"Magnificient work, which must (and will) prove itself by generations of use as an indispensable tool of English Reformation studies. No recent book has come my way of greater intrinsic value in its own sphere than this – or one which will repay more abundantly the price asked for its range, its detail and its length."
Epworth Review
"It is a most welcome contribution to the study of theology and ecclesiastical history, and will establish itself as an essential reference for all students of the Tudor and Stuart experience of the Protestant faith"
David Parnham
"It will serve at least three very useful purposes: first, a salutary source of information; second, it should provide a stark reminder to those engaged in the various ministries of the Church of England: third, it will remind over-secularized modern analysts that the Reformation, even in England, did have a lot to do with religion, its understanding and practice."
Theology
"A well designed collection which will meet a widely felt need ... probably the most comprehensive one of its type to appear this century ... outstandingly useful."
R.A. Houlbrooke, Parliamentary History
"A very useful primary source collection ... The timespan is generously conceived ... From a scholarly point of view admirable, and the standard of editing is very high"
Teaching History, April 1996
Gerald Bray first studied Classics at McGill University, Montreal and went on to study at the Sorbonne, and at Cambridge. He is presently Anglican Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University. He is the author of Holiness and the Will of God, Creeds, Councils and Christ, and The Doctrine of God.
Other titles in the Library of Ecclesiastical History Series include:
The Beginnings of Western Christendom by Leonard Elliott-Binns
Church and People in an Industrial City by Edward Wickham
The Christian Understanding of History by Eric Rust
The Churchmanship of St Cyprian by George Walker
Coverdale and his Bibles by J.F. Mozley
The Early Evangelicals: A Religious and Social Study by Leonard Elliott-Binns
Forerunners of the Reformation: The Shape of Late Medieval Thought by Heiko Augustinus Oberman
Islam and Christian Theology (4 Volume Set) by James Sweetman
Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church by W.H.C. Frend
The Oracles of God: An Introduction to the Preaching of John Calvin by Thomas Parker
Planting of Christianity in Africa (4 Volume Set) by Charles Pelham Groves
The Progress of Dogma by James Orr
Puritans, the Millennium and the Future of Israel: Puritan Eschatology 1600 to 1660 by Peter Toon (editor)
Reformation Writings of Martin Luther (2 Volume Set) by Martin Luther
Reformation Views of Church History by Glanmor Williams
Religion in the Victorian Era by Leonard Elliott-Binns
The Rise of the Monophysite Movement by W.H.C. Frend
Sermons on Isaiah's Prophecy of the Death and Passion of Christ by John Calvin
The Theology of Calvin by Wilhelm Niesel
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