Christian Church History
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HISTORY of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH
CONTENTS.
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HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION.
1517 – 1648.
mediaeval and modern christianity
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§ 1. The Turning Point of Modern History.
§ 2. Protestantism and Romanism.
§ 3. Necessity of a Reformation.
§ 4. The Preparations for the Reformation.
§ 5. The Genius and Aim of the Reformation.
§ 6. The Authority of the Scriptures.
§ 7. Justification by Faith.
§ 8. The Priesthood of the Laity.
§ 9. The Reformation and Rationalism.
§ 10. Protestantism and Denominationalism.
§ 11. Protestantism and Religious Liberty.
§ 12. Religious intolerance and Liberty in England and America.
§ 13. Chronological Limits.
§ 14. General Literature on the Reformation.
FIRSTBOOK.
THE GERMAN REFORMATION TILL THE DIET OF AUGSBURG,
1517–1530.
LUTHER’S TRAINING FOR THE REFORMATION, (l483–1517).
§ 15. Literature of the German Reformation.
§ 16. Germany and the Reformation.
§ 17. The Luther Literature.
§ 18. Luther’s Youth and Training.
§ 19. Luther in the University of Erfurt.
§ 20. Luther’s Conversion.
§ 21. Luther as a Monk.
§ 22. Luther and Staupitz.
§ 23. The Victory of Justifying Faith.
§ 24. Luther Ordained to the Priesthood.
§ 25. Luther in Rome.
§ 26. The University of Wittenberg.
§ 27. Luther as Professor till 1517.
§ 28. Luther and Mysticism. The Theologia Germanica.
§ 29. The Penitential Psalms. The Eve of the Reformation.
THE GERMAN REFORMATION FROM THE PUBLICATION OF LUTHER’S THESES TO THE DIET OF WORMS, (1517–1521).
§ 30. The Sale of Indulgences.
§ 31. Luther and Tetzel.
§ 32. The Ninety-five Theses. Oct. 31, 1517.
§ 33. The Theses-Controversy. 1518.
§ 34. Rome’s Interposition. Luther and Prierias. 1518.
§ 35. Luther and Cajetan. October, 1518.
§ 36. Luther and Miltitz. January, 1519.
§ 37. The Leipzig Disputation. June 27-July 15, 1519.
§ 38. Philip Melanchthon. Literature (Portrait).
§ 39. Melanchthon’s Training.
§ 40. Melanchthon’s Early Labors.
§ 41. Luther and Melanchthon.
§ 42. Ulrich von Hutten and Luther.
§ 43. Luther’s Crusade against Popery. 1520.
§ 44. Address to the German Nobility.
§ 45. The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. October, 1520.
§ 46. Christian Freedom.—Luther’s Last Letter to the Pope. October, 1520.
§ 47. The bull of Excommunication. June 15, 1520.
§ 48. Luther burns the Pope’s bull, and forever breaks with Rome. Dec. 10, 1520.
§ 49. The Reformation and the Papacy.
§ 50. Charles V.
§ 51. The Ecclesiastical Policy of Charles V.
§ 52. The Abdication of Charles, and his Cloister Life.
§ 53. The Diet of Worms. 1521.
§ 54. Luther’s Journey to Worms.
§ 55. Luther’s Testimony before the Diet. April 17 and 18, 1521.
§ 56. Reflections on Luther’s Testimony at Worms.
§ 57. Private Conferences with Luther. The Emperors Conduct.
§ 58. The Ban of the Empire. May 8 (26), 1521.
§ 59. State of Public Opinion. Popular Literature.
THE GERMAN REFORMATION FROM THE DIET OF WORMS TO THE PEASANTS’ WAR, (1521–1525).
§ 60. A New Phase in the History of the Reformation.
§ 61. Luther at the Wartburg. 1521–1522.
§ 62. Luther’s Translation of the Bible.
§ 63. A Critical Estimate of Luther’s Version.
§ 64. Melanchthon’s Theology.
§ 65. Protestant Radicalism. Disturbances at Erfurt.
§ 66. The Revolution at Wittenberg. Carlstadt and the New Prophets.
§ 67. Luther returns to Wittenberg.
§ 68. Luther restores Order in Wittenberg.—The End of Carlstadt.
§ 69. The Diets of Nuernberg, A.D. 1522–1524. Adrian VI.
§ 70. Luther and Henry VIII
§ 71. Erasmus.
§ 72. Erasmus and the Reformation.
§ 73. The Free-will Controversy. 1524–1527.
§ 74. Wilibald Pirkheimer.
§ 75. The Peasants’ War. 1523–1525.
THE INNER DEVELOPMENT OF THE REFORMATION FROM THE
PEASANTS’ WAR TO THE DIET OF AUGSBURG, (1525–1530).
§ 76. The Three Electors.
§ 77. Luther’s Marriage. 1525.
§ 78. Luther’s Home Life.
§ 79. Reflections on Clerical Family Life.
§ 80. Reformation of Public Worship.
§ 81. Prominent Features of Evangelical Worship.
§ 82. Beginnings of Evangelical Hymnody.
§ 83. Common Schools.
§ 84. Reconstruction of Church Government and Discipline.
§85. Enlarged Conception of the Church. Augustin, Wiclif, Hus, Luther.
§ 86. Changes in the Views on the Ministry. Departure from the Episcopal Succession. Luther ordains a Deacon, and consecrates a Bishop.
§ 87. Relation of Church and State.
§ 88. Church Visitation in Saxony.
§ 89. Luther’s Catechisms. 1529.
§ 90. The Typical Catechisms of Protestantism.
PROPAGATION AND PERSECUTION OF PROTESTANTISM.
§ 91. Causes and Means of Progress.
§ 92. The Printing-Press and the Reformation.
§ 93. Protestantism in Saxony.
§ 94. The Reformation in Nuernberg.
§ 95. The Reformation in Strassburg. Martin Bucer.
§ 96. The Reformation in North Germany.
§ 97. Protestantism in Augsburg and South Germany.
§ 98. The Reformation in Hesse, and the Synod of Homberg. Philip of Hesse, and Lambert of Avignon.
§ 99. The Reformation in Prussia. Duke Albrecht and Bishop Georg Von Polenz.
§ 100. Protestant Martyrs.
THE SACRAMENTARIAN CONTROVERSIES.
§ 101. Sacerdotalism and Sacramentalism.
§ 102. The Anabaptist Controversy. Luther and Huebmaier.
§ 103. The Eucharistic Controversy.
§ 104. Luther’s Theory before the Controversy.
§ 105. Luther and Carlstadt.
§ 106. Luther and Zwingli.
§ 107. The Marburg Conference, A.D. 1529. (With Facsimile of Signatures.)
§ 108. The Marburg Conference continued. Discussion and Result.
§ 109. Luther’s Last Attack on the Sacramentarians. His Relation to Calvin.
§ 110. Reflections on the Ethics of the Eucharistic Controversy.
§ 111. The Eucharistic Theories compared. Luther, Zwingli, Calvin.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION BETWEEN 1526 AND 1529.
§ 112. The First Diet of Speier, and the Beginning of the Territorial System. 1526.
§ 113. The Emperor and the Pope. The Sacking of Rome, 1527.
§ 114. A War Panic, 1528.
§ 115. The Second Diet of Speier, and the Protest of 1529.
§ 116. The Reconciliation of the Emperor and the Pope.
The Crowning of the Emperor. 1529.
THE DIET AND CONFESSION OF AUGSBURG. (1530).
§ 117. The Diet of Augsburg.
§ 118. The Negotiations, the Recess, the Peace of Nuernberg.
§ 119. The Augsburg Confession.
§ 120. The Roman Confutation and the Protestant Apology.
§ 121. The Tetrapolitan Confession.
§ 122. Zwingli’s Confession to the Emperor Charles.
§ 123. Luther at the Coburg.
§ 124. Luther’s Public Character, and Position in History.
§ 125. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.