The Reformation is an immense topic - one which a scholar can spend their entire life studying aspect or context of it. In order to allow for a useful discussion of all of the possibilities involved in this course we need to investigate the underlying causes of what all the fuss was about. Looking at theology - the study of religious doctrines and beliefs - is important because what reformers sought to do is change how European Christians in the 16th Century and beyond thought about themselves, the world in which they lived and how they ought to relate to one another (ie society) and to God (ie religiosity or beliefs). Understanding reformation doctrine or theology is crucial to knowing why Europeans acted in the ways that they did over the course of the sixteenth century. Doctrines explained the way the world worked, and when they changed, the world had to be 'reformed'…
Secondary
- O. Bayer, 'Freedom? The Anthropological Concepts in Luther and Melanchthon Compared,' Harvard Theological Review 91 no.4 (1998): 373-387.
- Martin Brecht, Martin Luther, his Road to Reformation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).
- Claus-Peter Clasen, 'Medieval Heresies in the Reformation,' Church History 32 no.4 (1963): 392-414.
- B.A. Gerrish, '"To the Unknown God": Luther and Calvin on the Hiddenness of God,' Journal of Religion 53 no.3 (1973): 263-292.
- D.R. Janz, Luther and late medieval Thomism: a study in theological anthropology (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1983).
- Allan K. Jenkins & Patrick Preston, Biblical Scholarship and the Church: A Sixteenth-Century Crisis of Authority (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
- Alastair E. McGrath, Reformation Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993).
- Alastair E. McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987).
- Heiko A. Oberman, 'Via Antiqua and Via Moderna: Late Medieval Prolegomena to Early Reformation Thought,' Journal of the History of Ideas 48 no.1 (1987): 23-40.
- Steven E. Ozment, 'Luther and the Late Middle Ages', in Transition and Revolution, ed. Robert M. Kingdon (: , 1974), .
- J. Pelikan, Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
- B. Pitkin, 'Seeing and Believing in the Commentaries on John on Martin Bucer and John Calvin,' Church History 68 no.4 (1999): 865-885.
- W.P. Stephens, Zwingli: an Introduction to his Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
- Stier, 'Martin Luther and the Real Presence in Nature,' Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37 (2007): 271-303.
- C. Trinkaus, 'Renaissance Problems in Calvin's Theology,' Studies in the Renaissance 1 (1954): 59-80.
- C. Trinkaus, 'The Problem of Free Will in the Renaissance and the Reformation,' Journal of the History of Ideas 10 no.1 (1949): 51-62.
Links
O. Bayer, 'Freedom? The Anthropological Concepts in Luther and Melanchthon Compared,' Harvard Theological Review 91 no.4 (1998): 373-387.
