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Reformation Views of Church History
An account of different views of Church History propagated by English writers during the Reformation, including such figures as William Tyndale, John Bale and John Foxe.
ISBN-13: 9780227171738 |
Glanmor Williams presents different views of Church History propagated by English writers during the Reformation. He introduces this topic by exploring the continental background, including Luther's arguments, the opponents and Luther's influence on important English authors of the sixteenth century.
Almost as soon as Luther came to communicate his sensibilities to others he began to realise that defenders of orthodoxy would denounce them as an intolerably presumptuous threat on the part of a single misguided monk to fifteen hundred years of established authority in the Church. Quite apart from the counter-arguments such as those raised by the clerical controversialist, Eck, there was the obvious and very serious objection against criticism of the Church, voiced by the Emperor Charles V: "For it is certain", he protested, "that a single monk must err if he stands against the opinion of all Christendom. Otherwise Christendom itself would have erred for more than a thousand years."
On October 31 1517, the then obscure friar-professor, Martin Luther, pinned up his ninety-five arguments on the church door at Wittenberg. He was, unknown to himself, proclaiming doctrines which were to find an echo in all corners of Europe in a remarkably short space of time. Among those who were most gladly to receive and propagate the Lutheran message was a young Englishman, William Tyndale, the outstanding English reformer of the first generation, and a major figure among English reformers of any generation.
In this fascinating book Williams also looks at the great impact of John Bale and John Foxe.
Glanmor Williams spent nearly forty years as a university lecturer in Swansea, twenty-five of them as professor of history.
During the course of an active public career, Glenmor Williams was chairman and member of a diverse range of bodies, including the Broadcasting Council for Wales, the British Library Board, the Board of Celtic Studies, the Pantyfedwen Trusts and CADW.
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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
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
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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