The Protestant Reformation : major documents / edited by Lewis W. Spitz. [print]

Selections of little-known documents to accompany the central statements of the reformers; each selection is prefaced by the editor with remarks and an introduction to the whole volume.

I. The humanist critics. The praise of folly Erasmus -- The Enchiridion Erasmus -- Letter to Elector Frederick of Saxony Hutten -- II. Luther's evangelical breakthrough. Preface to the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans Luther -- Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the power and efficacy of indulgences Luther -- An appeal to the ruling class of German nationality as to the amelioration of the state of Christendom Luther -- Treatise on Christian liberty Luther -- Funeral oration over Luther Melanchthon -- III. Zwingli and the radicals. The First Zurich disputation and the sixty-seven articles Zwingli -- The Schleitheim confession of faith Sattler -- The trial and martyrdom of Michael Sattler from Martyr's mirror Rottenburg, 1527 -- On the errors of the Trinity Servetus -- Concerning heretics Castellio -- IV. Calvin's ecclesiastical reform. Conversion and call to Geneva Calvin -- The Geneva confession Farel and Calvin -- Ecclesiastical ordinances Calvin -- The Institutes Calvin -- Letter to the five prisoners of Lyons Calvin -- V. The English Reformation. A supplication of beggars Fish -- The restraint of appeals to Rome Cromwell -- Exhortation to unity and obedience Starkey -- The six articles Henry Virgin IslandsII -- Preface to the Bible Cranmer -- A certain communication Lady Jane Grey -- The Act of Supremacy, 1559 Elizabethan Settlement -- The Act of Uniformity, 1559 Elizabethan Settlement.

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