Reformation Thought - Alister E. Mcgrath

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Résumé :

Preface to the Fifth Edition x

How to Use This Book xiii

1 Introducing the Age of Reformation 1

The Concept of Reformation 2

The Lutheran Reformation 4

The Reformed Church 5

The Radical Reformation (Anabaptism) 7

The Catholic Reformation 9

The English Reformation 10

The Call for Reform 12

The Growth of Anti-Clericalism 12

The Need for Doctrinal Reform 14

A Failed Attempt to Reform: Conciliarism 16

The Growth of Regional and National Power 16

The Religious Agendas of the Reformers 17

For Further Reading 19

Part One: The Context of the Thought of the Reformation 21

2 A Changing World: The Cultural Backdrop to the Reformation 23

The Rise of the Individual: The Demand for Personal Relevance 24

Alternative Theologies: Folk Religion and Magic 26

Religious Democratization: The Use of the Vernacular 28

The Importance of Printing 30

The Urban Context of the Reformation 32

Sacralizing the Secular: Christianity as a World-Engaging Faith 36

Doctrinal Confusion: A Crisis of Authority Within the Church 38

Receptivity Toward the Reformation: The Case of Lollardy 40

For Further Reading 41

3 Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation 43

The Concept of Renaissance 44

The Concept of Humanism 45

Classical Scholarship and Philology 46

The New Philosophy of the Renaissance? 47

Paul Oskar Kristeller's View of Humanism 49

Ad fontes: Returning to the Fountainhead 50

Northern European Humanism 52

The Northern European Reception of the Italian Renaissance 52

The Ideals of Northern European Humanism 53

Eastern Swiss Humanism 54

French Legal Humanism 55

Erasmus of Rotterdam 56

Erasmus' Critique of the Vulgate Text of the New Testament 59

Erasmus' Editions of Patristic Texts 61

Networks of Influence: Erasmus' Circle 62

Humanism and the Reformation: An Evaluation 63

Humanism and the Hebrew Bible 64

Humanism and the Swiss Reformation 65

Humanism and the Wittenberg Reformation 67

Tensions Between Reformation and Humanism 68

For Further Reading 71

4 Scholasticism and the Reformation 74

The Characteristics of Scholasticism 75

Scholasticism and the Universities 78

Types of Scholasticism 79

Realism Versus Nominalism 80

Intellectualism Versus Voluntarism 81

Pelagianism Versus Augustinianism 82

The Via Moderna 84

The Schola Augustiniana Moderna 86

The Impact of Medieval Scholasticism upon the Reformation 88

Luther's Relation to Late Medieval Scholasticism 88

Calvin's Relation to Late Medieval Scholasticism 89

Protestant Scholasticism: Paradox or Inevitability? 91

For Further Reading 92

5 The Reformers: Seven Biographical Sketches 94

Martin Luther (1483-1546) 95

Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) 100

William Tyndale (c.1494-1536) 102

Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) 103

Martin Bucer (1491-1551) 104

Katharina Sch?tz Zell (c.1497-1562) 106

John Calvin (1509-64) 107

For Further Reading 110

Part Two: The Core Themes of Reformation Thought 113

6 The Return to the Bible 115

Scripture in the Middle Ages 116

Medieval Hermeneutics: The Four Senses of Scripture 118

The Vulgate Translation of the Bible 119

Medieval Vernacular Versions of Scripture 120

The Humanists and the Bible 121

The Bible and the Protestant Reformation 123

The Canon of Scripture 124

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Biographie:

Alister E.?McGrath?is Andreas?Idreos?Professor of Science and Religion, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, UK. He is?an acclaimed scholar, theologian, intellectual historian, lecturer, and author. He has written several bestselling books, and a number of popular textbooks on theology, including?The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation?and?Luther's Theology of the Cross.?