A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) — Reading Companion

Chapter I. The Papacy. § 1. Claim to Universal Supremacy. § 2. The Temporal Supremacy. § 3. The Spiritual Supremacy. Chapter II. The Political Situation. § 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. § 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. § 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. § 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. § 1. Savonarola. § 2. John Colet. § 3. Erasmus. Book II. The Reformation. Chapter I. Luther to the Beginning of the Controversy About Indulgences. § 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. § 1. The Theory and Practice of Indulgences in the Sixteenth Century. § 2. Luther’s Theses. § 3. The Leipzig Disputation. § 4. The Three Treatises. § 5. The Papal Bull. § 6. Luther the Representative of Germany. Chapter III. The Diet Of Worms. § 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. § 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. § 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. § 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. § 2. The Protest. § 3. Luther and Zwingli. § 4. The Marburg Colloquy. § 5. The Emperor in Germany. § 6. The Diet of Augsburg 1530. § 7. The Augsburg Confession. § 8. The Reformation to be crushed. § 9. The Schmalkald League. § 10. The Bigamy of Philip of Hesse. § 11. Maurice of Saxony. § 12. Luther’s Death. § 13. The Religious War. § 14. The Augsburg Interim. § 15. Religious Peace of Augsburg. Chapter VI. The Organisation Of Lutheran Churches. Chapter VII. The Lutheran Reformation Outside Germany. Chapter VIII. The Religious Principles Inspiring The Reformation. § 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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