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Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation

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ISBN-10: 0631229396

ISBN-13: 9780631229391

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Alister E. McGrath

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The sixteenth-century Reformation remains a fascinating and exciting area of study. The revised edition of this distinguished volume explores the intellectual origins of the Reformation and examines the importance of ideas in the shaping of history. Provides an updated and expanded version of the original, highly-acclaimed edition. Explores the complex intellectual roots of the Reformation, offering a sustained engagement with the ideas of humanism and scholasticism. Demonstrates how the intellectual origins of the Reformation were heterogeneous, and examines the implications of this for our understanding of the Reformation as a whole. Offers a defence of the entire enterprise of…    
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Book details

List price: $60.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Intellectual Context
The Shape of Late Medieval Religious Thought
The Rise of Lay Religion
The Crisis of Authority Within the Church
The Development of Doctrinal Diversity
Forerunners of the Reformation
Humanism and the Reformation
Humanism: The Problem of Definition
Characteristic Features of Northern European Humanism
Humanism and the Origins of the Reformed Church
Humanism and the Origins of the Lutheran Church
Late Medieval Theology and the Reformation
Nominalism: The Problem of Definition
Via Moderna
Schola Augustiniana Moderna
Late Medieval Theology and the Origins of Reformed Theology
Late Medieval Theology and the Origins of Lutheran Theology
Sources and Methods
Scripture: Translation, Text, and Tradition
The Medieval Consensus on the Theological Priority of Scripture
The Vulgate Translation of the Bible
The Humanist Return Ad Fontes
The Critique of the Vulgate
The Concept of Tradition
The Principle Sola Scriptura
The Interpretation of Scripture
Scholasticism: The Fourfold Sense of Scripture
Humanism: The Letter and the Spirit
Hermeneutics and the Origins of the Reformed Church
Hermeneutics and the Origins of the Lutheran Church
The Patristic Testimony
The Scholastic Reception of Augustine
The Humanist Reception of Augustine
The Patristic Testimony and the Origins of the Reformed Church
The Patristic Testimony and the Origins of the Lutheran Church
Conclusion: The Intellectual Heterogeneity of the Early Reformation
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index