Reformation Europe

An engrossing volume on the European Reformation by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant. The sixth volume of Durant's acclaimed Story of Civilization, The Reformationchronicles the history of European civilization from 1300 to 1564.

Most of us have probably heard the story of how a German monk named Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of a church. These Ninety-five Theses were essentially ninety-five complaints lodged against the Catholic Church. In those days, the Catholic Church was the big guy on the block when it came to religion.

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Much of what we see expressed in the church today is built on more than just the New Testament. It's built, instead, mostly on the Old Testament, church culture, and Paganism. It is therefore imperative that we as God's people dare to stop and take a closer look at the church today and compare it to the first church we read about in the Bible. If we are to succeed in making disciples of all nations, then we must go back to the "template" we find in the Bible. Let the reformation begin!

Bloomsbury presents Reformation Divided written and read by Eamon Duffy. Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The...

William Cobbett (1763-1835) had an interesting life as a soldier, fugitive, political prisoner, journalist, farmer, and in the end a member of Parliament. He began his political career in America and ended up becoming a Radical supporter in the UK. He advocated against the injustices he saw, saying he held "the politics of every normal person". He had a number of radical ideas and set-up a newspaper to publish his articles. This history book was published in installments in that newspaper between 1824 to 1826, when Catholic Emancipation was being ferociously debated.

Was ist Europa? 2000 Jahre Kulturgeschichte rasant und humorvoll erzählt John Hirst nimmt Europas Geschichte auseinander – und setzt sie auf überraschende Weise neu zusammen. Statt sich durch Jahrhunderte zu wühlen, ordnet er die Geschichte des Kontinents anhand thematischer Schwerpunkte...

Die deutsche Geschichte hat nicht das eine Zentrum, sondern die Schauplätze wechseln. Die Germanen siegen im Teutoburger Wald. Kaiser Friedrich II. weilt meist in Sizilien, am Rhein blüht jüdisches Leben, das erste »Grundgesetz« des Reichs entsteht in Prag, die Reformation beginnt im kleinen Wittenberg, der Dreißigjährige Krieg endet in Westfalen. Gunilla Budde erzählt die deutsche Geschichte von den vielen großen und kleinen Orten aus, an denen Bewegendes begann.

At the beginning of the 16th century, a religious revolution shattered the outward appearance of conformity among Europe's Roman Catholics...a conformity that had been the basis of Western European unity for over a thousand years. Why did it happen? In this brilliant history, Professor Mosse exposes the crisis of the Papacy in preceeding centuries and shows how the need for reform was continually being delayed until it was simply too late.

The Reformation was an era with many examples of remarkable faithfulness, courage, and learning. However, few Christians today are familiar with their spiritual ancestors, the men who are responsible not only for much of our current understanding of the Bible and the Christian gospel, but also for the massive explosion of the Gospel all over the world today. If we want to continue to bear witness to the truth as faithfully as our fathers in the faith, we need to know their stories. Hannula's book includes 30 short but profound stories of Reformation-era courage.

Ob Martin Luthers Thesen am 31. Oktober 1517 tatsächlich an die Wittenberger Schlosskirche genagelt wurden, ist umstritten. Sicher ist allerdings, dass die Thesen durch Briefe und Nachdrucke in Windeseile verbreitet wurden. Was bis dahin in einem akademischen Disput nur allmählich bekannt geworden wäre, machten Buchdruck und Korrespondenz unter Humanisten zu einem öffentlichen Ereignis. In seinen Thesen wendet sich Luther gezielt gegen den Ablass.

Die Entdeckung Amerikas durch Kolumbus wirft ihre Schatten auf Mitteleuropa: Die Landkarte des Deutschen Reichs ist gesprenkelt, Könige werden entthront, zwei Päpste eingesetzt, die Universitäten erobern die Wissenschaft und so langsam ist eine Zeitwende spürbar...

Die neue Zeit drängt herein. Die Reformation schlägt ein Loch in die scheinbare Raum-Zeit-Konstante der bisherigen Geschichte, und Europa erfährt nicht gekannte Veränderungen. Herbert Rosendorfer schlägt ein neues, bewegendes Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte auf. Immer hat er dabei die Menschen im Blick, ihre Lebensbedingungen und die Beweggründe hinter den Ereignissen...

Martin Luther strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money, known as indulgences, and he confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his 95 Theses in 1517, one of the most important religious writings of all time. John Calvin (1509-1564) was one of the most important religious figures of the last millennium and an instantly recognizable name across the globe. Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation.

In How Heretics Dismantled the Medieval Catholic Patriarchal Family Unit to Usher in Modern Secularism explores the profound transformations that reshaped marriage, family, and societal structures from the medieval period to modern secularism. This meticulously researched book delves into how pivotal events such as the Reformation and the French Revolution dismantled the Christian foundations of marriage and family life, paving the way for contemporary secular authority.