The complete idiot's guide to the Reformation & Protestantism
As easy to understand history of the Reformation and how it created modern Protestantism.-- Excellent use of The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" format to take a complex historical event and give it meaning to members of any denomination. -- Author has a proven track record with this series as co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to the Bible, and brings a credible name and approach to Christian booksellers and readers. -- No competition in the marketplace, and readers are asking for this book! Many Protestants today -- whether Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, or Episcopalian -- have never understood how or why each has different traditions and beliefs. Historically, each denomination comes from the same beginnings -- the Reformation. Authors Bell and Sumner take readers on a journey from Martin Luther's time through medieval Europe, Old England, colonial American to today, explaining not only big schisms (like the break with Rome) but smaller ones (like John Wesley's break from the Anglican church to form modern Methodism.) Covering everything from Henry VIII's agenda to the North American Great Awakening, The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to the Reformation and Protestantism puts everything in perspective. Amazon
xxiii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780028642703, 0028642708
49482165
Part 1: The Christian faith before the Reformation
Just what are these reformers reforming, anyway?
Now this is a faith worth living for!
The church goes imperial
Rebels, rabble-rousers, and revolutionaries: The reformers
The right message at the right time
Part 2: The difference the reformers made
A "different" kind of reformation
The making of the man for the mission
It all started over indulgences
The ups and downs of Lutheranism
The Reformation expands
The Reformation changes hands
The spread of the reformed faith
Part 3: Results of the Reformation
England's own brand of Reformation
The struggles for Reformation in England
The radical side of the Reformation
The Catholic church's own Reformation
Martyrdom: The darker side of the Reformation
Wars, rumors of wars, then a lasting religious peace
The renewals and revivals of Europe
The Reformation: What it left us
The Reformation in North America before the American Reformation
The Reformation during and after the American Revolution
Protestantism today