Tag: Reformation

Free Download Lynda Telford, "Tudor Victims of the Reformation"
English | ISBN: 1473834031 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book describes a selection of people caught up in the turmoil that presaged the reformation – a period of change instigated by a king whose desire for a legitimate son was to brutally sweep aside an entire way of life.

Free Download Kenneth C. Carveley, "The Monastic Footprint in Post-Reformation Movements "
English | ISBN: 1032111445 | 2022 | 312 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 18 MB
This book examines the influence of the monastic tradition beyond the Reformation. Where the built monastic environment had been dissolved, desire for the spiritual benefits of monastic living still echoed within theological and spiritual writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a virtual exegetical template. The volume considers how the writings of monastic authors were appropriated in post-Reformation movements by those seeking a more fervent spiritual life, and how the concept of an internal cloister of monastic/ascetic spirituality influenced several Anglican writers during the Restoration. There is a careful examination of the monastic influence upon the Wesleys and the foundation and rise of Methodism. Drawing on a range of primary sources, the book will be of particular interest to scholars of monastic and Methodist history, and to those engaged in researching ecclesiology and in ecumenical dialogues.

Free Download The Industry of Evangelism : Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg
by Drew B. Thomas
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004462406 | 358 Pages | True PDF | 51 MB

Free Download Dr. Steven J. Reid, "Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Roger A. Mason "
English | ISBN: 1837651612 | 2024 | 312 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 5 MB

Free Download Michael W. Campbell, "Here We Stand: Luther, the Reformation, and Seventh-day Adventism"
English | ISBN: 081636334X | 2017 | 320 pages | EPUB | 1270 KB
Ellen G. White, quoting D Aubigne, wrote, Since your most serene majesty and your high mightinesses require from me a clear, simple, and precise answer, I will give you one, and it is this: I cannot submit my faith either to the pope or to the councils, because it is clear as the day that they have frequently erred and contradicted each other. Unless therefore I am convinced by the testimony of Scripture or by the clearest reasoning, unless I am persuaded by means of the passages I have quoted, and unless they thus render my conscience bound by the word of God, I cannot and I will not retract, for it is unsafe for a Christian to speak against his conscience. Here I stand, I can do no other; may God help me. Amen. The Great Controversy, 160; emphasis in original. Although separated in time by centuries, Seventh-day Adventists see themselves as heirs of the Protestant Reformation started by Martin Luther 500 years ago. This volume explores the various facets and contours of Luther and compares them with Seventh-day Adventism.

Free Download Anthony D. Wright, "The Counter-Reformation: Catholic Europe and the Non-Christian World Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0754650278 | 2005 | 328 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Modern scholarship has effectively demonstrated that, far from being a knee-jerk reaction to the challenges of Protestantism, the Catholic Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was fuelled primarily by a desire within the Church to reform its medieval legacy and to re-enthuse its institutions with a sense of religious zeal. In many ways, both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations were inspired by the same humanist ideals and though ultimately expressed in different ways, the origins of both movements can be traced back to the patristic revival of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that many contemporaries, and subsequent historians, came to view the Catholic Reformation as an attempt to challenge the Protestants and to cut the ground from beneath their feet. In this new revised edition of Dr Wright’s groundbreaking study of the Counter-Reformation, the wide panoply of the Catholic Reformation is spread out and analysed within the political, religious, philosophical, scientific and cultural context of late medieval and early modern Europe. In so doing, this book provides a fascinating guide to the many doctrinal and interrelated social issues involved in the wholesale restructuring of religion that took place both within Western Europe and overseas.

Free Download Elizabeth C. Tingle, "Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation: Long-Distance Pilgrimage in Northwest Europe "
English | ISBN: 1501518518 | 2020 | 246 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation examines long-distance pilgrimages to ancient, international shrines in northwestern Europe in the two centuries after Luther. In this region in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, saints’ cults and pilgrimage were frequently contested, more so than in the Mediterranean world. France, the Low Countries and the British Isles were places of disputation and hostility between Protestant and Catholic; sacred landscapes and journeys came under attack and in some regions, were outlawed by the state. Taking as case studies hugely popular medieval shrines such as Compostela, Rocamadour, the Mont Saint-Michel and Lough Derg, the impact of Protestant criticism and Catholic revival on shrines, pilgrims’ motives and experiences is examined through life writings, devotional works and institutional records. The central focus is that of agency in religious change: what drove spiritual reform and what were its consequences for the ‘ordinary’ Catholic? This is explored through concepts of the religious self, holy materiality, and sacred space.

Free Download Andrew T.N. Muirhead, "Reformation, Dissent and Diversity: The Story of Scotland’s Churches, 1560 – 1960"
English | ISBN: 0567661458 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines and describes for the general reader the life and characteristics of the churches which flourished in Scotland between the Reformation and the mid-20th century. It will help both amateur and professional historians to understand the different denominations, and provides background to, and context for, their own research. Church influence on society has been particularly strong in Scotland and church records are a major source of pre-1844 information, but no recent book deals adequately with the church background.

Free Download History of Christian Ethics: History of Christian Ethics Before the Reformation (Classic Reprint) By Chr. Ernst Luthardt
2019 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 1330308093 | PDF | 14 MB
Excerpt from History of Christian Ethics: History of Christian Ethics Before the ReformationTheology from the proper dogmatic system, and its fruitful viiof the mere intellectual forms which have been generated or occasioned by the logical process of reflection upon the products of the past. The exigencies of the practical Christian service, the humanizmg of the government and orders of the Church, and the unionistic strivings, have also put the whole Christian system into closer relations with the living habits and modes of thought. And all this has brought the fact more clearly into view from various sides of Theology and practice, that the essential and paramount interest of Christianity is the Christian life itself, and that the scientific comprehension and elucidation of it is the chief function of modern theology.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Free Download Roberta Kwan, "Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self "
English | ISBN: 1474461948 | 2023 | 432 pages | PDF | 3 MB
We share with Shakespeare, it seems, the assumption that to be human is to be an interpreter of oneself, others and the world – seeking but not always arriving at understanding. Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self explores this perspective on human subjectivity. This study reads the complex, compelling representations of the self as an interpreter (and misinterpreter) of reality in Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ alongside an intellectual history that links the culture-shaping theological hermeneutics of the playwright’s day to the similarly influential philosophical hermeneutics of our times. What is it to be an interpreting self? This book’s critical approach brings to the fore questions about the self’s finitude, agency, motivations, self-knowledge and ethical relation to others, questions that were of great relevance in Shakespeare’s England and which continue to resonate in our present-day dilemmas and debates about human experience and human being.