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The Reformation (2004) (edit title/settings)

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At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s award-winning new history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of... read more

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Lurking in a little English country church, at Preston Bissett in Buckinghamshire, is an object lesson in the difficulty of understanding the religious outlook of past generations.

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List of Illustrations and Maps
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I - A COMMON CULTURE

1. THE OLD CHURCH, 1490-1517
Seeing Salvation in Church
The First Pillar: The Mass and Purgatory
Layfolk at Prayer
The Second Pillar: Papal Primacy
A Pillar Cracks: Politics and the Papacy
Church Versus Commonwealth?

2. HOPES AND FEARS, 1490 - 1517
Shifting Boundries
The Iberian Exception
The Iberian Achievement: The Western Church Exported
New Possibilities: Paper and Printing
Humanism: A New World from Books
Putting Renewal Into Practice
Reform or the Last Days?
Erasmus: Hopes Fulfilled, Fears Stilled?

3. NEW HEAVEN: NEW EARTH, 1517-24
The Shadow of Augustine
Luther, a Good Monk: 1483-1517
An Accidental Revolution: 1517-21
Whose Revolution? 1521-2
Evangelical Challenges: Zwingli and Radicalism 1521-2
Zurich and Wittenberg 1522-4
The Years of Carnival 1521-4

4. WOOING THE MAGISTRATE, 1524-40
Europe's Greatest Rebellion: 1524-5
Princely Churches or Christian Seperation: 1525-30
The Birth of Protestantisms: 1529-33
Strassburg: New Rome or New Jerusalem
Kings and Reformers, 1530-40
A New King David? Munster and Its Aftermath

5. REUNION DEFERRED: CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT, 1530-60
A Southern Revival
Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits
Hope for a Deal: The 1541-2 Crisis
A Council at Trent: The First session, 1545-9
Calvin in Geneva: The Reformed Answer to Munster
Calvin and the Eucharist: Protestant Divisions Confirmed
Reformed Protestantism: Alternatives to Calvin 1540-60

6. REUNION SCORNED, 1547-70
Crisis For the Habsburgs, 1547-55
1555: An Emperor's Exhaustion, a Pope's Obesseion
A Catholic Recovery: England 1553-8
1558-9: Turning-points for Dynasties
The Last Session of the Council of Trent, 1561-3
Protestants in Arms: France and the Low Countries, 1562-70

PART II - EUROPE DIVIDED: 1570-1619

7. THE NEW EUROPE DEFINED, 1569-72
Northern and Southern Religion
Tridentine Successes
The Catholic Defence of Christendom, 1565-71
Militant Northern Protestants, 1569-72
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572
Poland 1569-76: An Alternative Future?
Protestantism and Providence

8. THE NORTH: PROTESTANT HEARTLANDS
Defining Lutheranism: Towards the Formula of Concord
The 'Second Reformation' in Germany
Baltic Religious Contests: Poland-Lithuania and Scaninavia
The Northern Netherlands: Protestant Victory
The Northern Netherlands: The Arminian Crisis
A Reformed Success: Scotland
Elizabethan England: A Reformed Church?
Ireland: The Coming of the Counter-Reformation

9. THE SOUTH; CATHOLIC HEARTLANDS
Italy: The Counter-reformation's Heart
Spain and Portugal: King Philip's Church
The Counter-Reformation as World Mission

10. CENTRAL EUROPE; RELIGION CONTESTED
The Empire and Habsburg Lands: A Shattered Church
Habsburgs, Wittelsbachs and a Catholic Recovery
Transylvannia: A Reformed Israel
France: Collapse of a Kingdom, 1572-98
France: A Late Counter Reformation

11. 1618-48 DECISION AND DESTRUCTION

12. CODA: BRITISH LEGACY, 1600-1700
New English Beginnings: Richard Hooker and Lancelot Andrewes
Early Stuart England: The Chruch's Golden Age?
War in Three Kingdoms, 1638-60
A Spectrum of Protestantisms, 1660-1700
American Beginnings

PART III - PATTERNS OF LIFE

13. CHANGING TIMES
Time Ending
Hearing God's Voice
Fighting Antichrist: Idols
Fighting Antichrist: Witches

14. DEATH, LIFE AND DISCIPLINE
Negotiations with Death and Magic
Telling out the Word
Godly Discipline
A Spirit of Protestantism

15. LOVE AND SEX: STAYING THE SAME
A Common Legacy
The Family in Society
The Fear of Sodomy

16. LOVE AND SEX: MOVING ON
The 'Reformation of Manners'
Catholicism, the Family and Celibacy
Protestantism and the Family
Choices in Religion

17. OUTCOMES
Wars of Reformation
Tolerating Difference
Cross-currents: Humanism and Natural Philosophy
Cross-currents: Judaism and Doubts
The Enlightenment and Beyond

Appendix of Texts: Creeds, Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments and Hail Mary
Notes
Further Reading
Index

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  1. Diarmaid MacCulloch (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: New York
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0670032964
Page Count: 800

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