Reformation 500

How the Greatest Revival Since Pentecost Continues to Shape the World Today

Ray Van Neste, J. Michael Garrett

• Publisher: B&H Academic
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781433684999
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: History of Christianity

In a church rocked by controversies over vernacular Scripture, iconoclasm, and the power of clergy, men and women arose in protest. Today we call this protest movement the Protestant Reformation. At its heart, the Reformation was a great revival of the church centered on the recovery of biblical truth and the gospel of free grace. This movement continues to instruct and inspire believers even into the present day. Reformation 500  celebrates the Reformation and probes the ways it has shaped our world for the better. With essays from an array of disciplines, this book explores the impact of the Reformation across a wide range of human experience. Literature, education, visual art, culture, politics, music, theology, church life, and Baptist history all provide prisms through which the Reformation legacy is viewed. From Augustine to Zwingli, historical figures like Luther, Calvin, Barth, Bonhoeffer, Rembrandt, Bach, Bunyan, and Wycliffe all find their way into this amazing 500-year story. From Anglicans to Baptists, scientists to poets,   Reformation 500  weaves these many historical threads into a modern-day tapestry.

Table of contents

• Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Why Are We Celebrating the Reformation?
• “Reform our church all out of joint”: The Lollard Movement and the Medieval Origins of the Reformation
• Anabaptist Kinship Revisited: Implications for Baptist Origins and Identity
• Baptists and Calvin Today: The Importance of the Reformation for Baptists
• The Sacred Cross: Martin Luther and the Marks of the True Church
• “An Introduction through which we are prepared for faith in the ­gospel . . .”: Augustine, Calvin, and the Authority of the Church and Holy Scripture
• “Comfortable Words”: Reforming the Lord’s Supper
• The Primacy of Preaching in the English Reformation
• Classical Foundations, Vernacular Edifice: Literature in the Reformation
• The Religious Dissenter in Victorian Fiction: Reformation Themes in Nineteenth Century English Novels
• The Songs of the Reformation: Leading the Church in Worship
• Rembrandt van Rijn: Painter of the Reformation
• The Historical Legacy of Luther
• Martin Luther and Contemporary Higher Education in the United States
• Martin Luther and the Question of Political Quietism
• Impact of the Reformation Upon the Flowering of Modern Science
• A Modern Reformation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Quest for the “Real Luther”
• Christianity After “Judaizing”: Reformation and Modernity
• Name Index