The Roots of the Reformation: Tradition, Emergence and Rupture, 2nd Edition

by Greg Evans

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2012

Overview

Renowned historian G. R. Evans revisits the question of what happened at the Reformation. Contravening traditional paradigms of interpretation, Evans charts the controversies and challenges that roiled the era of the Reformation and argues that these are really part of a much longer history of discussion and disputation. Evans takes up several issues, such as Scripture, ecclesiology, authority, sacraments and ecclesio-political relations, and traces the shape of the charged discussions that orbited around these through the patristic, medieval and Reformation eras. In this, she demonstrates that in many ways the Reformation was in considerable continuity with the periods that preceded it, though the consequential outcome of the debates in the sixteenth century was dramatically different.

Key Features

• Charts the controversies and challenges that roiled the era of the Reformation
• Takes up several issues and traces the shape of the charged discussions that orbited around them through the patristic, medieval and Reformation eras
• Demonstrates that in many ways the Reformation was in considerable continuity with the periods that preceded it

Table of Contents

• Part 1: Bible and Church: The Questions Being
• Part 2: Continuity and Change in the Middle Ages
• Part 3: Continuity and Change from the Reformation

Praise for the Print Edition

Briskly and breezily, but very efficiently, medievalist Gillian Evans here surveys Western Europe’s changing and clashing views of Christianity from the fourteenth century through the seventeenth century. This large-scale introduction is certainly the best of its kind currently available.

J. I. Packer, Regent College

This remarkable book interprets the long history of the Christian Church in the light of the Reformation, and the Reformation in the light of Church history. Broad in its learning, scope, and vision, it will undoubtedly stimulate and enthrall those fascinated by the question of how Christianity came to be as it is.

Euan Cameron, Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History, Union Theological Seminary, New York

G. R. Evans is one of our finest scholars, and she has written a superb book placing the story of the Reformation in the wider context of Christian history. Comprehensive, well researched and readable.

Timothy George, general editor, Reformation Commentary on Scripture

Product Details

• Title: The Roots of the Reformation: Tradition, Emergence and Rupture, 2nd Edition
• Author: Greg Evans
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Pages: 480
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Reformation; Religion › Christian church; Religion › Christianity--History
• ISBNs: 9780830863310, 0830863311, 9780830839964, 0830839968
• Resource ID: LLS:9780830863310
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-20T06:46:25Z