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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Setting the Scene: The "Fair Field of Folk" | |
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Bible and Church: The Questions Begin | |
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The Idea of Church | |
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A New Idea | |
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The Emergence of Ministers as Leaders | |
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Local Churches and the Universal Church | |
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The Idea of Faith | |
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What Do We Believe? Trying to Put the Faith in a Nutshell | |
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One Faith and Different Rites | |
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Where Was the Bible? | |
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Adding to the Old Testament | |
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Creating a Standard Text of the Bible for Use in the West | |
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The Ministry of the Word in the Early Church | |
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Finding Many Meanings in Scripture | |
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Becommg and Remaining a Member of the Church | |
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The Doctrine of Baptism Emerges | |
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Insiders and Outsiders: Cyprian and the Rigorist Approach to the Problem of Apostasy | |
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Penance and the Recurring Problem of Sin | |
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The Eucharist and the Idea of Sacraments | |
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Eucharist | |
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Sacraments | |
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Organization, Making Decisions and Keeping Together | |
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Councils and Other Ways of Making Decisions | |
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The Fifteenth-Century Bid for Conciliarism Instead of Primatial Government of the Church | |
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The Church and the State | |
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The Two Swords | |
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The Body Politic, the City, the Corporation and the Church | |
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Titles and Benefices and the Growing Problem of the Church's Wealth | |
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Continuity and Change in the Middle Ages | |
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Monastic Life, Monastic Education and Awakening Social Concerns | |
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Guibert of Nogent: Monk and Social Commentator | |
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Monasteries as Powerhouses of Education | |
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The Beginning of Academic Theology and the Invention of Universities | |
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The Invention of Universities | |
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Bible Study and the Beginning of Academic Theology | |
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The Evangelical Urge and the Wandering Preachers | |
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Preaching Becomes Popular Again | |
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The Formal Rhetorical Art of Preaching | |
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The Franciscans and the Dominicans | |
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Religious Experiments by the Laity | |
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Working People, Active Orders | |
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Exemplary Individuals and Being an Example to Others | |
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Glimpses of Ordinary Lives: Learning What to Believe and How to Live | |
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The Church Fosters the Mixed Life | |
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Rebels, Repression and the Stirrings of Reform | |
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Social Comment and the Debate About Poverty | |
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John Wyclif | |
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John Hus | |
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Continuity and Change from the Reformation | |
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Renaissance | |
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The Rediscovery of the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures | |
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The Biblical Languages and the Universities | |
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Humanism or Scholasticism: The Two Ways | |
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Luther and His Heirs: The Moderate Reformers | |
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The Conversion of Martin Luther and Its Consequences | |
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Melanchthon, Moderation and Building a Bridge Between the Academic and the Popular | |
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Creating a Lutheran Doctrinal System | |
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Henry VIII and the English Reformation | |
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Peaceful Extremists? The Anabaptist Heirs of the Medieval Sects | |
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Huldreich Zwingli and the Battle with the Anabaptists | |
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Lutheran "Good Citizens" and Anabaptist Anarchy" | |
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Calvin and His Heirs: The Reformed Churches | |
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John Calvin | |
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France, Huguenots and Some Notable Women | |
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John Knox and Scotland | |
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The English Reformation Turns Reformed | |
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Puritans Leave for the New World | |
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The Counter-Reformation | |
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Responding to the Challenge: Reforming Moves in Rome | |
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Science and the Bible from a Roman Catholic Perspective | |
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Church and State Again: New Political Dimensions of the Idea of Order | |
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Bible Questions Continue | |
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Wrestling with the Humanity of Scripture | |
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Textual Difficulties and Translation Issues | |
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The Style and Obscurity of Scripture | |
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Increasingly Radical Divergences of Opinion and Practice | |
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Conclusion | |
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Handlist of Reformation Concerns and Their History | |
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Select Bibliography | |
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Author Index | |
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Subject Index | |
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Scripture Index | |