1. MARTIN BUCER & OTHER LEADING REFORMERS

 

David C. Steinmetz, Reformers in the Wings: From Geiler von Kaysersberg to Theodore Beza, 2^nd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) paperback, $20.  An excellent survey of some 20 lesser known figures who guided the Reformation.

 

Mariano DiGangi, Peter Martyr Vermigli, 1499-1562: Renaissance Man, Reformation Master (Landham: University Press of America, 1993).

James M. Estes, Christian Magistrate and State Church: the Reforming Career of Johannes Brenz (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982).

Hans-Jurgen Goertz, Thomas Muntzer: Apocalyptic, Mystic, and Revolutionary (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993).

Eric W. Gritsch, Thomas Muntzer: A Tragedy of Errors, Fortress (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989).

Eric W. Gritsch, Reformer Without a Church: The Life and Thought of Thomas Muntzer, 1488-1525 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1967).

Frank A. James, Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination: The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer, Oxford Theological Monographs (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) hardcover, $108.

Klaus Depperman, Melchior Hoffman: Social Unrest and Apocalyptic Visions in the Age of Reformation (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999) paperback, $40.

James M. Kittelson, Wolfgang Capito: From Humanist to Reformer, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Thought 17 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997) hardcover, $83.

Sachiko Kusukawa, ed., Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) paperback, $25.

Clyde Leonard Manschreck, Melanchthon, the Quiet Reformer (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1975).

Karin Maag, ed., Melanchthon in Europe: His Work and Influence Beyond Wittenberg, Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1999) paperback, $20.

Philip McNair, Peter Martyr in Italy: An Anatomy of Apostasy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967).

Calvin Augustine Pater, Karlstadt as the Father of the Baptism Movement (reprint of 1984 edition: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993).

Gordon Rupp, Patterns of Reformation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1969).  A valuable study of Oecolampadius, Karlstadt, Muntzer.

John Schofield, Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006).  NEW.

Tom Scott, Thomas Muntzer: Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989).

Ronald J. Sider, Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt: Development of His Thought, 1517-1525, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Thought 11 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974).

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

Timothy Wengert, Human Freedom, Christian Righteousness: Philip Melanchthon’s Exegetical Dispute with Erasmus of Rotterdam, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) hardcover, $50.

Timothy Wengert, Law and Gospel: Philip Melanchthon’s Debate with John Agricola of Eisleben over Poenitentia, Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought 3 (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1997) paperback, $22.

D.F. Wright, ed. Martin Bucer: Reforming Church and Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) paperback, $25.

 

 2. REFORMATION IN THE CITIES

 

Steven Ozment, The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975).  The Reformation quickly took root in most of the imperial cities of the Empire.  Ozment studies how so many came over to the Protestant side: the mix of polemical preaching, humorous pamphlets, decrees from city magistrates.  This provides important perspectives on the Reformation as a grass-roots movement—how the great theological debates fueled and were fueled by popular sentiment

 

Lorna Jane Abray, The People’s Reformation : Magistrates, Clergy, and Commons in Strasbourg, 1500-1598 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985).

Irena Backus, Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) hardcover, $45.

Michael Baylor, ed., The Radical Reformation, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) paperback, $20.

Christopher Boyd Brown, Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation, Harvard Historical Studies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) hardcover, $40.

Amy Nelson Burnett, Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) hardcover, $74. NEW.

C. Scott Dixon, ed., The German Reformation: The Essential Readings, Blackwell Essential Readings in History (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1999) paperback, $34.  Essays that highlight the social fabric.

Mark U. Edwards, Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) hardcover.

Carlos Eire, War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) paperback, $28.

Brad S. Gregory, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Historical Studies 134 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000) paperback, $20.

Ole Peter Grell & Bob Scribner, eds., Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) paperback, $35.

Vanessa Harding, The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) hardcover, $70.

Bernd Moeller, Imperial Cities and the Reformation: Three Essays (reprint: Labyrinth Press, 1982) Out of print.  Classic essays.

R. Po-Chia Hsia, ed., German People and the Reformation (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988) paperback, $22.

R. Po-Chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe 1550-1750 (New York: Routledge, 1992) paperback, $18.

Steven Ozment, Protestants: Birth of a Revolution (New York: Doubleday, 1992) paperback, $15.  An updating, a recasting, and popularizing of his earlier Reformation in the Cities.

Andrew Pettegree, ed., The Reformation of the Parishes: The Ministry and the Reformation in Town and Country (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993) hardcover, $70.

Andrew Pettegree, Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) paperback, $30.

Paul A. Russell, Lay Theology in the Reformation: Popular Pamphleteers in Southwest Germany, 1521-1525 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986) paperback, $35.

R.W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) paperback.

Tom Scott, Town, Country, and Regions in Reformation Germany, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Tradtions vol. 106 (Leiden: Brill, 2005).

Lee Palmer Wandel, Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) paperback, $22.

 

 

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