Chapter I: Front Matter

International Theological Library

A History of The Reformation

By

Thomas M. Lindsay, M.A., D.D.

Principal, The United Free Church College, Glasgow

In Two Volumes

Volume I

The Reformation in Germany From Its Beginning to the Religious Peace of
Augsburg

Edinburgh

T. & T. Clark

1906

CONTENTS

Series Advertisement.
Dedication.
Preface.
Book I. On The Eve Of The Reformation.
Chapter I. The Papacy.
§ 1. Claim to Universal Supremacy.
§ 2. The Temporal Supremacy.
§ 3. The Spiritual Supremacy.
Chapter II. The Political Situation.
§ 1. The small extent of Christendom.
§ 2. Consolidation.
§ 3. England.
§ 4. France.
§ 5. Spain.
§ 6. Germany and Italy.
§ 7. Italy.
§ 8. Germany.
Chapter III. The Renaissance.
§ 1. The Transition from the Mediæval to the Modern World.
§ 2. The Revival of Literature and Art.
§ 3. Its earlier relation to Christianity.
§ 4. The Brethren of the Common Lot.
§ 5. German Universities, Schools, and Scholarship.
§ 6. The earlier German Humanists.
§ 7. The Humanist Circles in the Cities.
§ 8. Humanism in the Universities.
§ 9. Reuchlin.
§ 10. The “Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum.”
§ 11. Ulrich von Hutten.
Chapter IV. Social Conditions.
§ 1. Towns and Trade.
§ 2. Geographical Discoveries and the beginning of a World Trade.
§ 3. Increase in Wealth and luxurious Living.
§ 4. The Condition of the Peasantry.
§ 5. Earlier Social Revolts.
§ 6. The religious Socialism of Hans Böhm.
§ 7. Bundschuh Revolts.
§ 8. The Causes of the continuous Revolts.
Chapter V. Family And Popular Religious Life in the Decades Before the
Reformation.
§ 1. Devotion of Germany to the Roman Church.
§ 2. Preaching.
§ 3. Church Festivals.
§ 4. The Family Religious Life.
§ 5. A superstitious Religion based on Fear.
§ 6. A non-Ecclesiastical Religion.
§ 7. The “Brethren.”
Chapter VI. Humanism And Reformation.
§ 1. Savonarola.
§ 2. John Colet.
§ 3. Erasmus.
Book II. The Reformation.
Chapter I. Luther to the Beginning of the Controversy About
Indulgences.
§ 1. Why Luther was successful as the Leader in a Reformation.
§ 2. Luther’s Youth and Education.
§ 3. Luther in the Erfurt Convent.
§ 4. Luther’s early Life in Wittenberg.
§ 5. Luther’s early Lectures in Theology.
§ 6. The Indulgence-seller.
Chapter II. From The Beginning of the Indulgence Controversy to the
Diet of Worms.
§ 1. The Theory and Practice of Indulgences in the Sixteenth
Century.
§ 2. Luther’s Theses.
§ 3. The Leipzig Disputation.
§ 4. The Three Treatises.
§ 5. The Papal Bull.
§ 6. Luther the Representative of Germany.
Chapter III. The Diet Of Worms.
§ 1. The Roman Nuncio Aleander.
§ 2. The Emperor Charles V.
§ 3. In the City of Worms.
§ 4. Luther in Worms.
§ 5. Luther’s first Appearance before the Diet of Worms.
§ 6. Luther’s Second Appearance before the Diet.
§ 7. The Conferences.
§ 8. The Ban.
§ 9. Popular Literature.
§ 10. The Spread of Luther’s Teaching.
§ 11. Andrew Bodenstein of Carlstadt.
§ 12. Luther back in Wittenberg.
Chapter IV. From The Diet of Worms to the Close Of the Peasants’ War.
§ 1. The continued spread of Lutheran Teaching.
§ 2. The beginnings of Division in Germany.
§ 3. The Peasants’ War.
§ 4. The Twelve Articles.
§ 5. The Suppression of the Revolt.
§ 6. Luther and the Peasants’ War.
§ 7. Germany divided into two separate Camps.
Chapter V. From The Diet Of Speyer, 1526, To The Religious Peace Of
Augsburg, 1555.
§ 1. The Diet of Speyer, 1526.
§ 2. The Protest.
§ 3. Luther and Zwingli.
§ 4. The Marburg Colloquy.
§ 5. The Emperor in Germany.
§ 6. The Diet of Augsburg 1530.
§ 7. The Augsburg Confession.
§ 8. The Reformation to be crushed.
§ 9. The Schmalkald League.
§ 10. The Bigamy of Philip of Hesse.
§ 11. Maurice of Saxony.
§ 12. Luther’s Death.
§ 13. The Religious War.
§ 14. The Augsburg Interim.
§ 15. Religious Peace of Augsburg.
Chapter VI. The Organisation Of Lutheran Churches.
Chapter VII. The Lutheran Reformation Outside Germany.