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Until now, no single anthology of the most important documents of the sixteenth-century European Reformation has been available. Janz, a well-respected Reformation scholar, captures the energy and moment of that tumultuous time in this rich trove of nearly 100 carefully edited primary documents.
Formulated in such a way as to be usable in state university settings as well as religious ones, undergraduate and graduate, A Reformation Reader includes a range of sources, from the most frequently cited works to personal narratives and letters, comments on the social mores of the time, and some sermons. It offers full coverage not only of Martin Luther and the Lutheran Reformation, Ulrich Zwingli and the Radical Reformation, and John Calvin, but also of the late-medieval background, the Catholic Reformation, the Council of Trent, and the English Reformation. Helpful introductions orient the reader to each chapter, and shorter introductions contextualize each document.
396 pages, 2002
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Late Medieval Background
Spirituality
1. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
The Papacy
2. Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam
The Status of Women
3. Heinrich Kraemer, O.P., and Jacob Sprenger, O.P., Malleus Maleficarum
4. Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
Exegesis
5. Jacobus Faber Stapulensis, Introduction to the Commentary on the Psalms
Moral Instruction
6. The Fasciculus Morum
Theology
7. Thomas Bradwardine, The Cause of God against the Pelagians
8. Gabriel Biel, The Circumcision of the Lord
Indulgences
9. Clement VI, Unigenitus
10. Sixtus IV, Salvator noster
11. Albert of Mainz, Instructio summaria
Eating, Sleeping, and Dying
12. Dietrich Kolde, Mirror for Christians
Criticism
13. Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
Chapter 2. Martin Luther
Introduction
The Person
14. Autobiographical Fragment: Preface to the Complete Edition of Luther’s Latin Writings
15. Letter to His Father: Dedication of On Monastic Vows
16. Luther on His Monastic Life
17. From Luther’s Table Talk
18. Letter to Katie
Theological Writings
19. Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
20. A Meditation on Christ’s Passion
21. To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate
22. The Freedom of a Christian
23. Preface to the New Testament
24. Preface to the Old Testament
25. The Small Catechism
26. The Smalcald Articles
Lutheranism
27. The Augsburg Confession
28. Philip Melanchthon, Apology of the Augsburg Confession
29. Formula of Concord
Chapter 3. Zwingli and the Radical Reformation
Introduction
Ulrich Zwingli
30. Letter to Utinger
31. Of Freedom of Choice in the Selection of Food
32. Petition to the Bishop of Constance
33. Of the Clarity and Certainty of the Word of God
34. Sixty-seven Theses
35. On True and False Religion
36. Letter to Vadian
37. Zwingli’s Death: Two Accounts
Thomas Müntzer
38. A Sermon before the Princes
The Peasant Revolt
39. The Twelve Articles of the Peasants
The Anabaptists
40. Reminiscences of George Blaurock
41. Balthasar Hubmaier, Concerning Heretics and Those Who Burn Them
42. Balthasar Hubmaier, A Christian Catechism
43. The Schleitheim Confession
44. The Trial and Martyrdom of Michael Sattler
45. Hans Denck, Concerning True Love
46. Menno Simons, A Meditation on the Twenty-fifth Psalm
47. Peter Walpot, True Yieldedness and the Christian Community of Goods
Chapter 4. John Calvin
Introduction
Calvin on Himself
48. Preface to the Commentary on the Psalms
49. Letter to Melanchthon
Practical Matters
50. Geneva Ordinances
51. Letter Concerning a Pious Woman
52. Letter on Usury
The Servetus Affair
53. Letter from David Joris to Servetus’ Judges
54. Letters from Servetus to the Geneva Council
55. Verdict and Sentence for Michael Servetus
Theology: Institutes of the Christian Religion
56. Knowledge of God
57. Scripture
58. Original Sin
59. Christ
60. The Holy Spirit
61. The Christian Life
62. Predestination
63. The Church
64. The Lord’s Supper
65. Civil Government
Chapter 5. The Reformation in England
Introduction
Origins: Henry VIII
66. Act of Supremacy
67. Act of Six Articles
The Explicator: Thomas Cranmer
68. Preface to the Great Bible
69. A Sermon of the Salvation of Mankind
Return to the Fold: Mary
70. The Marian Injunctions
The Final Split: Elizabeth I
71. Act of Supremacy
72. Act of Uniformity
73. The Elizabethan Injunctions
74. The Thirty-nine Articles
Chapter 6. The Counter/Catholic Reformation
Introduction
Early Reactions
75. Leo X, Exsurge Domine
76. Leo X, Decet Romanum
77. Adrian VI to the Diet of Nuremberg
78. Cajetan, On Faith and Works
79. Contarini and Carafa, Consilium de emendanda ecclesiae
80. Paul III, Licet ab initio
The Council of Trent
81. Decree and Canons on Justification
82. Canons on the Sacraments in General
83. Canons on the Eucharist
84. Canons on Penance
85. Reform Decree on Establishing Seminaries
86. Reform Decree on Preaching
87. Rules on Prohibited Books
The Jesuits
88. Ignatius Loyola, Autobiography
89. An Early Jesuit Report on Rome
90. Ignatius Loyola, Prima summa
91. Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises
92. Letter of Juan de Polanco to Antonio de Araoz
93. Letter of Ignatius Loyola to Peter Canisius
The New World
94. Paul III, Sublimis Deus
95. Francisco de Vitoria, De Indis
96. Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Rome and Elizabeth I
97. Pius V, Regnans in excelsis
About the Editor
Denis R. Janz is Provost Distinguished Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the Department of Religious Studies at Loyola University, New Orleans. He is author of Luther and Late Medieval Thomism (1983), Luther on Thomas Aquinas (1989), and World Christianity and Marxism (1998).
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