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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