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The Reformation: Introductions & General Works

R.H. Bainton, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Beacon Press, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0807013013.

Jean Calvin, Jacopo Sadoleto, John C. Olin, editor. A Reformation Debate. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976. Pbk. ISBN: 0801023904. pp.136.

Owen Chadwick, The Reformation. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0140137572.

Jean Comby, How To Read Church History, Vol. 2. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0334020360. pp.195.

A.G. Dickens, Reformation and Society in Sixteenth Century Europe. London: Thames & Hudson, 1966. Out of Print.

G.R. Elton, Reformation Europe 1517-1559. Blackwell, 1999. ISBN: 0631213848. pp.352.

William R. Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0802808867. pp.332.

William R. Estep, Renaissance and Reformation. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdman's Pub. Co., 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 0802800505. pp.331.

A. Fischer-Galati, Ottaman Imperialism and German Protestantism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959. Out of Print.

V.H.H. Green, Renaissance and Reformation: A Survey of European History Between 1450 and 1660. Arnold, 1964. ISBN: 0713156171.

H.J. Grimm, The Reformation Era (1550-1650). New York MacMillan, 1973. Out of Print.

H.J. Hilderbrand, Christendom Divided: the Protestant Reformation. Utchinson, 1971. Out of Print.

H. Holborn, A History of Modern Germany: 1. The Reformation. New York: Knopf, 1959.

K. Holl, The Cultural Significance of the Reformation. New York: Meridian, 1959. Out of Print.

R. Tudor Jones, The Great Reformation. Bryntirion Press, 1997. ISBN: 1850491275

J. Lecler, Toleration and the Reformation, 2 Vols. Longmans, 1960. Out of Print.

Rosemary O'Day, The Debate on the English Reformation. Routledge, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 0416726801. pp.240.

Steven Ozment, The Age of Reform 1250-1550 : An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. Yale University Press, 1981. Pbk. ISBN: 0300027605.

R. Paschal, The Social Basis of the German Reformation. Watts, 1933. Out of Print.

Wilbert Shenk, editor. Anabaptism and Mission. Kitchener, Ontario: Herald Press, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0836133676. pp.264.


The Counter-Reformation

A.G. Dickens, The Counter Reformation. Thames and Hudson, 1969. Pbk. ISBN: 0500330123. pp.215.


The Reformers


Martin Bucer

W. Pauck, The Heritage of the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. Out of Print.

W.P. Stephens, The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Martin Bucer. Cambridge: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Out of Print.

T.F. Torrance, Kingdom and Church: A Study of the Theology of the Reformation. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1956. Out of Print.

G.J. Van de Poll, Martin Bucer's Liturgical Ideas. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1954. Out of Print.

D.F. Wright, Common Places of Martin Bucer. Appleford: Sutton Courtenay Press, 1972.

D.F. Wright, Martin Bucer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 052139144X.


John Calvin

P. van Buren, Christ in Our Place: The Substitutionary Character of Calvin's Doctrine of Reconciliation. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1957. Out of Print.

J. Cadier, The Man God Mastered. IVP, 1960. Out of Print.

E.A. Dowey, The Knowledge of God in Calvin's Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994. Pbk. ISBN: 0802801072. pp.304.

G.E. Duffield, ed. John Calvin. Appleford: Courtenay Press, 1966. Out of Print. An important collection of essays.

W.F. Graham, The Constructive Revolutionary: John Calvin and his Socio-Economic Impact. The Michigan State University Press, 1987. Hbk. ISBN: 0870132490.

A.M. Hunter, The Teaching of Calvin. Clarke, 1950. Out of Print.

W.F. Keesecker, ed. A Calvin Treasury: Selections from the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1992. ISBN: 0664253989.

H.T. Kerr, ed. Introduction to the Writings of John Calvin. New York: Association Press, 1960. Out of Print.

Hugh T. Kerr, ed. Calvin's Institutes: A New Compend .Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0664250807. pp.180.

Anthony N.S. Lane, John Calvin: Student of the Church Fathers. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0567086941. pp.320.

J. MacKinnon, Calvin and the Reformation. Longmans Green, 1936. Out of Print.

K. McDonnell, John Calvin, the Church and the Eucharist. Princeton University Press, 1967. Out of Print.

J.T. McNeill, The History and Character of Calvinism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954. ISBN: 0195007433.

J.T. McNeill, ed. The Institutes of the Christian Religion, translator. F.L. Battles, 2 Vols. Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. Hbk. ISBN: 0664220282. pp.1805.

W. Niesel, The Theology of Calvin. Lutterworth, 1956. Out of Print.

T.H.L.Parker, ed. Sermons on the Death and Passion of Christ. Clarke, 1936. Out of Print.

T.H.L.Parker, The Oracles of God. Lutterworth, 1947. Out of Print. The preaching of Calvin.

T.H.L.Parker, Doctrine of the Knowledge of God: A Study in the Theology of John Calvin. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1952. Out of Print.

T.H.L.Parker, A Portrait of John Calvin. London: SCM, 1954. Out of Print.

T.H.L.Parker, John Calvin: A Biography. Dent, 1975. Out of Print.

H. Quistorp, Calvin's Theology of the Last Things. Lutterworth, 1955. Out of Print.

Keith Randell, John Calvin and the Later Reformation. Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0340529407. pp.160.

J.K.S. Reid, ed. Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God. James Clarke & Co., Ltd., 1982. Hbk. ISBN: 0227678532. pp.192.

A-M Schmidt, Calvin and the Calvinist Tradition. Longmans, 1960. Out of Print.

E. Stickelberger, Calvin: A Life. James Clarke & Co. Ltd., 1959. ISBN: 0227674243.

W. Walker, John Calvin, the Organiser of Reformed Protestantism 1509-1564. New York: Putman's, 1906. Out of Print.

Thomas F. Torrance, Calvin's Doctrine of Man. Greenwood Press, 1977. Hbk. ISBN: 0837196396.

R.S. Wallace, Calvin's Doctrine of the Christian Life. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. Out of Print.

Ronald S. Wallace, Calvin's Doctrine of Word and Sacrament. Scottish Academic Press, 1995. ISBN: 0707307473.

Francois Wendel & Philip Mairet, Calvin: The Origin and Development of his Religious Thought. Baker Book House, 1996. ISBN: 080102062X.


Thomas Cranmer

P. Ayris & D. Selwyn, eds. Thomas Cranmer, Churchman and Scholar. The Boydell Press, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0851157408. pp.375.

G.W. Bromiley, Thomas Cranmer, Theologian. 1956.

Peter Brooks, Thomas Cranmer's Doctrine of the Eucharist, 2nd edn. Palgrave Press, 1992. Hbk. ISBN: 0333545419. pp.225.

F.E. Hutchinson, Cranmer and the English Reformation. 1951. Out of Print.

Diamaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0300074484.

E.C. Ratcliff, "The Liturgical Work of Archbishop Cranmer," Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 7 (1956): 189-203.

C.H. Smyth, Cranmer and the Reformation Under Henry VI. Cambridge, 1926.


Erasmus

J.W. Aldridge, The Hermeneutic of Erasmus. Richmond: Knox, 1966. Out of Print.

R.H. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom. Collins Fontana, 1972. Out of Print.

L. Bouyer, Erasmus and the Humanist Experiment. Chapman, 1959. Out of Print.

B. Corrigan, ed. The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141 (1484 to 1501). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Out of Print.

J. Huizinga, Erasmus of Rotterdam.. Phaidon Press, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0714833665.

A. Hyma, The Youth of Erasmus. New York: Russell and Russell, 1968.

R.L. de Molen, ed. Erasmus of Rotterdam: A Quincentennial Symposium. New York: Twayne, 1971. Out of Print.

J.B. Payne, Erasmus: His Theology of the Sacraments. Richmond: Knox, 1969. Out of Print.

M.M. Phillips, Erasmus and the Northern Renaissance. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. Out of Print.


Martin Luther

Paul Althaus, The Theology of Martin Luther. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0800618556. pp.479. Very detailed systematic work.

J. Atkinson, The Great Light: Luther and the Reformation. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1968. Out of Print. Luther and the German Reformation.

Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand. Penguin Books, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0141391219. pp.432. Very readable biographical work.

H. Boemer, Martin Luther: Road to Reformation. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg, 1946. Out of Print. Biographical work.

H. Bornkamm, Luther's World of Thought. St. Louis: Concordia, 1958. Out of Print.

H. Bornkamm, Luther and the Old Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969. Out of Print.

H.S. Bluhm, Luther, Creative Translator. St. Louis: Concordia, 1965. Out of Print.

Martin Brecht, Martin Luther: His Road to Reformation 1483-1521. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0800628136.

A.G. Dickens, Martin Luther and the Reformation. EUP, 1967. Out of Print. Luther and the German Reformation.

A.G. Dickens, The German Nation and Martin Luther. Birkbeck Lectures. Arnold, 1974. Out of Print. Luther and the German Reformation.

J. Dillenberger, ed. Martin Luther, Selections From His Works. New York: Doubleday, 1958. Pbk. ISBN: 0385098766. An anthology of Luther's works.

G. Ebeling, Luther: An Introduction to His Thought. Collins, 1970. Out of Print.

Goerge Wolfgang Forell, Faith Active in Love. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 1579102824. pp.200. Luther's exposition of Christian ethics.

V.H.H. Green, Luther and the Reformation. Methuen, 1969. Out of Print. Luther and the German Reformation.

J.M. Headley, Luther's View of Church History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. Out of Print.

Alistair McGrath, Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. ISBN: 0631175490.

J.J. Pelikan, Obedient Rebels. London: SCM, 1964,

J.J. Pelikan, Spirit versus Structure: Luther and the Institution of the Church. Collins, 1968. Out of Print.

J.J. Pelikan & H.T. Lehmann, eds. Luther's Works, 56 Vols. St. Louis: Concordia / Philadelphia: Fortress, 1955-. Out of Print. Complete English translation of Luther's writings.

Regin Prenter, Spiritus Creator. Wipf & Stock, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 1579106269. pp.332. Study of Luther's Pneumatology.

G. Ritter, Martin Luther: His Life and Work. Collins, 1963. Out of Print. Biographical work.

E.G. Rupp, Luther's Progress to the Diet of Worms. London: SCM, 1951. Out of Print. Biographical work.

E.G. Rupp, The Righteousness of God. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Out of Print. Luther's theology.

E.G. Rupp & B. Drewery, eds. Martin Luther. Arnold, 1970. Out of Print. An anthology of Luther's works.

H. Sasse, This is my Body: Luther's Contention for the Real Presence in the Sacrament of the Altar, revised. Adelaide, 1977. Out of Print.

Ernest George Schwiebert, Luther and his Times. St. Louis: Concordia, 1950. ISBN: 0570032466. pp.892. Very detailed biographical work.

I.D.K. Siggins, Martin Luther's Doctrine of Christ. 1970. Out of Print.

I.D.K. Siggins, ed. Luther. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1972. An anthology of Luther's works.

I.D.K. Siggins, Luther and his Mother. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981. Pbk. ISBN: 0800614984.

T.G. Tappert, ed. Selected Writings of Martin Luther, 4 Vols. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1967. Out of Print.

V. Vajta, Luther on Worship. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg, 1958. Out of Print.

P.S. Watson, Let God Be God! An Interpretation of the Theology of Martin Luther. Epworth, 1947. Out of Print. Survey.

J. Wicks, Man Yearning for Grace: Luther's Early Spiritual Teaching. Washington: Corpus, 1968. Out of Print.

B.L. Woolf, ed. Reformation Writings of Martin Luther, 2 Vols. Lutterworth, 1952-55. Out of Print. An anthology of Luther's works.

E.W. Zeeden, The Legacy of Luther. Hollis & Carter, 1954. Out of Print. Biographical work.


Philip Melanchthon

E.E. Flack, & L.J. Satre, eds. Melanchthon: Selected Writings. Minneapolis: Augsberg, 1962. Out of Print.

P. Fraenkel, Testimonia Patrum: The Function of Patristic Argument in the Theology of Philip Melanchthon. Geneva, 1961. Out of Print.

F. Hildebrandt, Melanchthon: Alien or Ally? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. Out of Print.

Sachiko Kusukawa & Christine F. Salazar, editors. Melanchthon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0521586771. pp.312.

Karin Maag, editor. Melanchthon in Europe: His Work and Influence Beyond Wittenberg Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0801022231. pp.191.

Clyde L. Manschreck, Melanchthon, the Quiet Reformer. London: Greenwood Press, 1976. Hbk. ISBN: 0837161312. Readable biography.

E.P. Meijering, Melanchthon and Patristic Thought. Leiden: Brill, 1983. Hbk. ISBN: 9004069747. pp.166.

M. Rogness, Melanchthon: Reformer Without Honour. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1969. Out of Print.

R. Stupperich, Melanchthon. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1965. Out of Print.

Timothy J. Wengert & M. Patrick Graham, editors. Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the Commentary. Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffield Academic, 1997. Hbk. ISBN: 1850756848. pp.320.


John Wycliffe

J.H. Dahmus, The Prosecution of John Wyclif. London, 1952.

David G. Fountain, John Wycliffe. Mayflowers Books, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0907821022.

A. Kenny, Wyclif. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

A. Kenny, Wyclif in his Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Hbk. ISBN: 0198200889.

K.B. McFarlane, John Wycliffe and the Beginnings of English Non-Conformity. "Teach Yourself History", 1952.

J.A. Robson, Wyclif and the Oxford Schools. Cambridge, 1961.

H.B. Workman, John Wyclif. 2 Vols. Oxford, 1926.


Ulrich Zwingli

G.W. Bromiley, ed. Zwingli and Bullinger. Westminster / John Knox Press, 1979. Pbk. ISBN: 066424159X.

J. Courvoisier, Zwingli, A Reformed Theologian. Epworth, 1964. Out of Print. Concise analysis of Zwingli's teaching.

O. Farner, Zwingli the Reformer, 1952. Lutterworth, 1968. Out of Print.

Ulrich Gabler, Huldrych Zwingli: His Life & Work. T. & T. Clark Publishers Ltd., 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0567094499. pp.208.

S.M. Jackson & C.N. Heller, eds. The Latin Works of Huldreich Zwingli with Selections from his German Works, 3 Vols. Philadelphia: Heidelberg Press, 1912-29. Out of Print. Standard English edition of Zwingli's works.

G.W. Locher & D. Shaw, Zwingli's Thought. Leiden: Brill, 1981. Hbk. ISBN: 9004064206. pp.394.

G.R. Potter & Mark Greengrass, Huldrych Zwingli., 2nd edn. Hist. Assn., 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0852783736.

J. Rilliet, Zwingli: Third Man of the Reformation. Lutterworth, 1964. Out of Print.

W.P. Stephens, Zwingli. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0198263635. pp.188.

W.P. Stephens, The Theology of Huldrych Zwingli. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0198266979. pp.362.

R.C. Walton, Zwingli's Theocracy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968. ISBN: 0802051944.