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Forerunners of the Reformation: The Shape of Late Medieval Thought
A groundbreaking discussion of late medieval Christian thought, opening up the studies of the specialists to a wider and more general audience.
ISBN-13: 9780227170458 |
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'.
Heiko Oberman of the Netherlands Reformed Church taught at Harvard Theological Seminary, the Institute of Reformation History at Tubingen University and at Arizona University. He is also the author of: The Dawn of the Reformation (1986) and The Impact of the Reformation (1994).
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
Documents of the English Reformation by Gerald Bray
The Early Evangelicals: A Religious and Social Study by Leonard Elliott-Binns
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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