A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts With

Includes not only the most frequently cited documents but also personal narratives, letters, sermons, and comments on the social mores of the times.

Preface

xi

Introduction

1

(2)

The Late Medieval Background

Introduction

3

(2)

Spirituality

5

(8)

The Imitation of Christ

5

(8)

Thomas a Kempis

The Papacy

13

(1)

Unam Sanctam

13

(1)

Boniface VIII

The Status of Women

14

(12)

Malleus Maleficarum

14

(9)

Heinrich Kraemer

Jacob Sprenger

Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex

23

(3)

Henricus Cornelius Agrippa

Exegesis

26

(3)

Introduction to the Commentary on the Psalms

26

(3)

Jacobus Faber Strapulensis

Moral Instruction

29

(9)

The Fasciculus Morum

29

(9)

Theology

38

(13)

The Cause of God against the Pelagians

38

(7)

Thomas Bradwardine

The Circumcision of the Lord

45

(6)

Gabriel Biel

Indulgences

51

(3)

Clement VI, Unigenitus

52

(1)

Sixtus IV, Salvator noster

52

(1)

Albert of Mainz, Instructio summaria

53

(1)

Eating, Sleeping, and Dying

54

(3)

Mirror for Christians

54

(3)

Dietrich Kolde

Criticism

57

(12)

In Praise of Folly

57

(12)

Desiderius Erasmus

Martin Luther

Introduction

69

(2)

The Person

71

(10)

Autobiographical Fragment: Preface to the Complete Edition of Luther's Latin Writings

71

(5)

Letter to His Father: Dedication of On Monastic Vows

76

(1)

Luther on His Monastic Life

77

(1)

From Luther's Table Talk

78

(2)

Letter to Katie

80

(1)

Theological Writings

81

(57)

Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences

81

(5)

A Meditation on Christ's Passion

86

(4)

To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate

90

(8)

The Freedom of a Christian

98

(8)

Preface to the New Testament

106

(3)

Preface to the Old Testament

109

(1)

The Small Catechism

110

(12)

The Smalcald Articles

122

(16)

Lutheranism

138

(13)

The Augsburg Confession

138

(1)

Apology of the Augsburg Confession

139

(6)

Philip Melanchthon

Formula of Concord

145

(6)

Zwingli and the Radical Reformation

Introduction

151

(1)

Ulrich Zwingli

152

(12)

Letter to Utinger

152

(1)

Of Freedom of Choice in the Selection of Food

152

(1)

Petition to the Bishop of Constance

153

(1)

Of the Clarity and Certainty of the Word of God

154

(1)

Sixty-seven Theses

155

(4)

On True and False Religion

159

(2)

Letter to Vadian

161

(1)

Zwingli's Death: Two Accounts

162

(2)

Thomas Muntzer

164

(1)

A Sermon before the Princes

164

(1)

The Peasant Revolt

165

(2)

The Twelve Articles of the Peasants

165

(2)

The Anabaptists

167

(36)

Reminiscences of George Blaurock

168

(2)

Concerning Heretics and Those Who Burn Them

170

(2)

Balthasar Hubmaier

A Christian Catechism

172

(4)

Balthasar Hubmaier

The Schleitheim Confession

176

(4)

The Trial and Martyrdom of Michael Sattler

180

(3)

Concerning True Love

183

(7)

Hans Denck

A Meditation on the Twenty-fifth Psalm

190

(4)

Menno Simons

True Yieldedness and the Christian Community of Goods

194

(9)

Peter Walpot

John Calvin

Introduction

203

(2)

Calvin on Himself

205

(9)

Preface to the Commentary on the Psalms

205

(8)

Letter to Melanchthon

213

(1)

Practical Matters

214

(8)

Geneva Ordinances

214

(4)

Letter Concerning a Pious Woman

218

(1)

Letter on Usury

219

(3)

The Servetus Affair

222

(4)

Letter from David Joris to Servetus' Judges

222

(2)

Letters from Servetus to the Geneva Council

224

(1)

Verdict and Sentence for Michael Servetus

224

(2)

Theology: Institutes of the Christian Religion

226

(57)

Knowledge of God

226

(2)

Scripture

228

(8)

Original Sin

236

(8)

Christ

244

(6)

The Holy Spirit

250

(3)

The Christian Life

253

(9)

Predestination

262

(7)

The Church

269

(9)

The Lord's Supper

278

(2)

Civil Government

280

(3)

The Reformation in England

Introduction

283

(2)

Origins: Henry VIII

285

(9)

Act of Supremacy

285

(1)

Act of Six Articles

285

(9)

The Explicator: Thomas Cranmer

294

(16)

Preface to the Great Bible

294

(9)

A Sermon of the Salvation of Mankind

303

(7)

Return to the Fold: Mary

310

(2)

The Marian Injunctions

310

(2)

The Final Split: Elizabeth I

312

(13)

Act of Supremacy

312

(1)

Act of Uniformity

313

(1)

The Elizabethan Injunctions

314

(3)

The Thirty-nine Articles

317

(8)

The Counter/Catholic Reformation

Introduction

325

(2)

Early Reactions

327

(21)

Exsurge Domine

327

(2)

Leo X

Decet Romanum

329

(3)

Leo X

Adrian VI to the Diet of Nuremberg

332

(1)

Cajetan, On Faith and Works

333

(13)

Contarini and Carafa, Consilium de emendanda ecclesiae

346

(1)

Licet ab initio

347

(1)

Paul III

The Council of Trent

348

(20)

Decree and Canons on Justification

349

(9)

Canons on the Sacraments in General

358

(2)

Canons on the Eucharist

360

(1)

Canons on Penance

361

(2)

Reform Decree on Establishing Seminaries

363

(1)

Reform Decree on Preaching

364

(1)

Rules on Prohibited Books

365

(3)

The Jesuits

368

(9)

Autobiography

368

(1)

Ignatius Loyola

An Early Jesuit Report on Rome

369

(1)

Prima summa

369

(1)

Ignatius Loyola

The Spiritual Exercises

370

(3)

Ignatius Loyola

Letter of Juan de Polanco to Antonio de Araoz

373

(2)

Letter of Ignatius Loyola to Peter Canisius

375

(2)

The New World

377

(2)

Sublimis Deus

377

(1)

Paul III

De Indis

378

(1)

Francisco de Vitoria

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

378

(1)

Bartolome de las Casas

Rome and Elizabeth I

379

(2)

Regnans in excelsis

379

(2)

Pius V

Sources

381

(2)

Index

383

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