Foundations

Dixon, C. Scott (author)

Protestants ; 8-59

2010-10-01

52 pages

9781444328103 , 9781405150842

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444328103.ch1

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

foundations, search for true Christianity ‐ Martin Luther's search for soul, with his own soul , Luther, and foundations of theology ‐ breaking with medieval Roman Catholicism , Martin Luther and early Reformation ‐ dormant sense of community and expectation, immediacy and point of focus , Swiss Protestants ‐ the gospel of Christian freedom , Reformation, “constructive misunderstanding” ‐ misreading by humanists in Germany , effect of Reformation on social and political relations ‐ in rural parishes of Switzerland and southern Germany , John Calvin's Institutes, idea of a Protestant order ‐ emerging out of the Reformation , Swiss Reformation and the two pillars ‐ principle of Scripture alone and appeal to Christian liberty , theological revolution, rise of Protestants a historical phenomenon ‐ in early modern world , German Reformation and its origins ‐ within geometry of theological vision of Martin Luther