Melanchthon and Bucer
Melanchthon and Bucer

Author: Wilhelm Pauck

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1969-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780664241643

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This carefully translated and edited volume in the Library of Christian Classics contains Philip Melanchthon's famous Loci Communes and Martin Bucer's De Rengo Christi. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.

Advocates of Reform
Advocates of Reform

Author: Matthew Spinka

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1953-01-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780664230791

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This volume in the Library of Christian Classics series offers fresh translations of works by several early reformers. Inlcuded among the authors is John Wyclif, whose work is often characterized as a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.

Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers
Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers

Author: George H. Williams

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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An important volume of scholarship, this book presents a collection of documents previously little known and inaccessible to the English-speaking world. This volume includes writings of the Radical Reformation--Anabaptist and Spiritualist--as well as three treatises by Juan de Valdes as a representative of Evangelical Catholicism. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.

A Scholastic Miscellany
A Scholastic Miscellany

Author: Eugene Rathbone Fairweather

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1956-01-01

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780664244187

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This is collection of Christian treatises written prior to the end of the sixteenth century.

Zwingli and Bullinger
Zwingli and Bullinger

Author: Ulrich Zwingli

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1953-01-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780664241599

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Selections from the writings of Ulrich Zwingli and Heinrich Bullinger, two lesser-known church reformers, are contained in this volume. Also included is an account of the life, work, and theology of each of these Swiss reformers of the sixteenth century. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.

The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation
The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation

Author: Alister E. McGrath

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 047077696X

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The sixteenth-century Reformation remains a fascinating and exciting area of study. The revised edition of this distinguished volume explores the intellectual origins of the Reformation and examines the importance of ideas in the shaping of history. Provides an updated and expanded version of the original, highly-acclaimed edition. Explores the complex intellectual roots of the Reformation, offering a sustained engagement with the ideas of humanism and scholasticism. Demonstrates how the intellectual origins of the Reformation were heterogeneous, and examines the implications of this for our understanding of the Reformation as a whole. Offers a defence of the entire enterprise of intellectual history, and a reaffirmation of the importance of ideas to the development of history. Written by Alister E. McGrath, one of today’s best-known Christian writers.