Rebel in the Ranks by Gregory, Brad S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Introduction: Why the Reformation Matters

A Hard Life Religion as More-than-Religion An Inherited Christian Worldview From Then to Now: A First Glance Where We Are Going in This Book

1. A Reluctant Rebel

A Busy and Burdened Friar Augustinian Duties Getting to a New University in a Small Town God’s Word, Humanist Scholarship, and Christian Reform Wittenberg’s Thriving Christian Piety Sins, Reform, and the Importance of Confession Luther’s Struggles Beneath the Surface The Wider Stage: The Holy Roman Empire Going Public with Ninety-Five Theses Unexpected Fame Making Political Waves A Sheltered Meeting in Augsburg A Public Showdown in Leipzig A Clarifying Anger Liberation and Denunciation A Double Severance Package

2. A Fractious Movement

Karlstadt’s Wittenberg Zwingli’s Zürich Reformation as Urban Disruption Reformation as Revolution: The German Peasants’ War The Gospel Against the World: Anabaptists For and Against Free Will Broken over the Bread: The Eucharistic Controversy Münster: An Apocalyptic Anabaptist Kingdom Brave—and Troubled—New World

3. A Troubled Era

Lutheranism Beyond Luther Calvin, Geneva, and Reformed Protestantism The Radical Reformation After Münster Roman Catholicism Renewed War to War in the Holy Roman Empire France and the Wars of More-than-Religion England, Kingdom of Religious Division Violence, Revolt, and Breakup in the Low Countries Religion as More-than-Religion: Creativity, Conflicts, and Impasses

4. A New World

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