A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Chapters (113)
- Series Advertisement.
- Dedication.
- Preface.
- Book I. On The Eve Of The Reformation.
- Chapter I. The Papacy.1
- § 1. Claim to Universal Supremacy.
- § 2. The Temporal Supremacy.
- § 3. The Spiritual Supremacy.
- Chapter II. The Political Situation.15
- § 1. The small extent of Christendom.
- § 2. Consolidation.
- § 3. England.
- § 4. France.
- § 5. Spain.
- § 6. Germany and Italy.
- § 7. Italy.
- § 8. Germany.
- Chapter III. The Renaissance.16
- § 1. The Transition from the Mediæval to the Modern World.
- § 2. The Revival of Literature and Art.
- § 3. Its earlier relation to Christianity.
- § 4. The Brethren of the Common Lot.
- § 5. German Universities, Schools, and Scholarship.
- § 6. The earlier German Humanists.
- § 7. The Humanist Circles in the Cities.
- § 8. Humanism in the Universities.
- § 9. Reuchlin.
- § 10. The “Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum.”
- § 11. Ulrich von Hutten.
- Chapter IV. Social Conditions.47
- § 1. Towns and Trade.
- § 2. Geographical Discoveries and the beginning of a World Trade.
- § 3. Increase in Wealth and luxurious Living.
- § 4. The Condition of the Peasantry.
- § 5. Earlier Social Revolts.
- § 6. The religious Socialism of Hans Böhm.
- § 7. Bundschuh Revolts.
- § 8. The Causes of the continuous Revolts.
- Chapter V. Family And Popular Religious Life in the Decades Before the Reformation.67
- § 1. Devotion of Germany to the Roman Church.
- § 2. Preaching.
- § 3. Church Festivals.
- § 4. The Family Religious Life.
- § 5. A superstitious Religion based on Fear.
- § 6. A non-Ecclesiastical Religion.
- § 7. The “Brethren.”
- Chapter VI. Humanism And Reformation.105
- § 1. Savonarola.
- § 2. John Colet.
- § 3. Erasmus.
- Book II. The Reformation.
- Chapter I. Luther to the Beginning of the Controversy About Indulgences.130
- § 1. Why Luther was successful as the Leader in a Reformation.
- § 2. Luther's Youth and Education.
- § 3. Luther in the Erfurt Convent.
- § 4. Luther's early Life in Wittenberg.
- § 5. Luther's early Lectures in Theology.
- § 6. The Indulgence-seller.
- Chapter II. From The Beginning of the Indulgence Controversy to the Diet of Worms.152
- § 1. The Theory and Practice of Indulgences in the Sixteenth Century.
- § 2. Luther's Theses.162
- § 3. The Leipzig Disputation.167
- § 4. The Three Treatises.171
- § 5. The Papal Bull.
- § 6. Luther the Representative of Germany.
- Chapter III. The Diet Of Worms.176
- § 1. The Roman Nuncio Aleander.
- § 2. The Emperor Charles v.
- § 3. In the City of Worms.
- § 4. Luther in Worms.
- § 5. Luther's first Appearance before the Diet of Worms.222
- § 6. Luther's Second Appearance before the Diet.
- § 7. The Conferences.
- § 8. The Ban.
- § 9. Popular Literature.
- § 10. The Spread of Luther's Teaching.
- § 11. Andrew Bodenstein of Carlstadt.309
- § 12. Luther back in Wittenberg.
- Chapter IV. From The Diet of Worms to the Close Of the Peasants' War.
- § 1. The continued spread of Lutheran Teaching.
- § 2. The beginnings of Division in Germany.
- § 3. The Peasants' War.319
- § 4. The Twelve Articles.
- § 5. The Suppression of the Revolt.
- § 6. Luther and the Peasants' War.
- § 7. Germany divided into two separate Camps.
- Chapter V. From The Diet Of Speyer, 1526, To The Religious Peace Of Augsburg, 1555.
- § 1. The Diet of Speyer, 1526.326
- § 2. The Protest.329
- § 3. Luther and Zwingli.
- § 4. The Marburg Colloquy.331
- § 5. The Emperor in Germany.
- § 6. The Diet of Augsburg 1530.337
- § 7. The Augsburg Confession.342
- § 8. The Reformation to be crushed.
- § 9. The Schmalkald League.353
- § 10. The Bigamy of Philip of Hesse.357
- § 11. Maurice of Saxony.
- § 12. Luther's Death.
- § 13. The Religious War.364
- § 14. The Augsburg Interim.365
- § 15. Religious Peace of Augsburg.368
- Chapter VI. The Organisation Of Lutheran Churches.372
- Chapter VII. The Lutheran Reformation Outside Germany.385
- Chapter VIII. The Religious Principles Inspiring The Reformation.386
- § 1. The Reformation did not take its rise from a Criticism of Doctrines.
- § 2. The universal Priesthood of Believers.
- § 3. Justification by Faith.
- § 4. Holy Scripture.
- § 5. The Person of Christ.
- § 6. The Church.
- Index.
- Footnotes
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