Reformation 500
How the Greatest Revival Since Pentecost Continues to Shape the World Today
Published on 15. February 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4336-8498-2 (ISBN)
Description
In a church rocked by controversies over vernacular Scripture, iconoclasm, and the power of clergy, men and women arose in protest. Today we call this protest movement the Protestant Reformation. At its heart, the Reformation was a great revival of the church centered on the recovery of biblical truth and the gospel of free grace. This movement continues to instruct and inspire believers even into the present day. Reformation 500 celebrates the Reformation and probes the ways it has shaped our world for the better. With essays from an array of disciplines, this book explores the impact of the Reformation across a wide range of human experience. Literature, education, visual art, culture, politics, music, theology, church life, and Baptist history all provide prisms through which the Reformation legacy is viewed. From Augustine to Zwingli, historical figures like Luther, Calvin, Barth, Bonhoeffer, Rembrandt, Bach, Bunyan, and Wycliffe all find their way into this amazing 500-year story. From Anglicans to Baptists, scientists to poets, Reformation 500 weaves these many historical threads into a modern-day tapestry.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Nashville
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 6 mm
Thickness: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4336-8498-2 (9781433684982)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Ray Van Neste is associate professor of Biblical Studies and director of the R. C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.
Content
Chapter 1 - "Reform our church all out of joint": The Lollard Movement and the Medieval Origins of the Reformation Chapter 2 - Anabaptist Kinship Revisited: Baptist Origins and Identity Chapter 3 - Importance of the Reformation for Baptists Chapter 4 - The Sacred Cross: Martin Luther and the Marks of the True Church Chapter 5 - "An introduction through which we are prepared for faith": Augustine, Calvin, and the Centrality of the Church & Scripture Chapter 6 - "Comfortable Words": Reforming the Lord's Supper Chapter 7 - The Preached Word of God and the English Reformation Chapter 8 - From Private and Personal to Public and Political: Reformation Theology & English Literature Chapter 9 - The Religious Dissenter in Victorian Fiction: Reformation Themes in 19th Century English Novels Chapter 10 - Songs of the Reformation: Leading the Church in Worship Chapter 11 - Rembrandt van Rijn: Painter of the Reformation Chapter 12 - Martin Luther and the Making of History: His Historiographical Legacy Chapter 13 - Calling and the Academy: Martin Luther and American Higher Education Chapter 14 - "Luther's Error"?: Martin Luther and the Question of Political Quietism Chapter 15 - From Copernicus to Newton: The Flowering of Modern Science and the Reformation Chapter 16 - Heritage and Hope: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Quest for the 'Real Luther' Chapter 17 - Christianity After Judaizing: The Cultural Impact of the Reformation