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Preface | p. 9 |
Acknowledgments | p. 11 |
Abbreviations | p. 13 |
Setting the Scene: The "Fair Field of Folk" | p. 15 |
Bible and Church: The Questions Begin | |
The Idea of Church | p. 23 |
A New Idea | p. 23 |
The Emergence of Ministers as Leaders | p. 27 |
Local Churches and the Universal Church | p. 33 |
The Idea of Faith | p. 37 |
What Do We Believe? Trying to Put the Faith in a Nutshell | p. 37 |
One Faith and Different Rites | p. 43 |
Where Was the Bible? | p. 46 |
Adding to the Old Testament | p. 46 |
Creating a Standard Text of the Bible for Use in the West | p. 51 |
The Ministry of the Word in the Early Church | p. 54 |
Finding Many Meanings in Scripture | p. 56 |
Becommg and Remaining a Member of the Church | p. 64 |
The Doctrine of Baptism Emerges | p. 64 |
Insiders and Outsiders: Cyprian and the Rigorist Approach to the Problem of Apostasy | p. 69 |
Penance and the Recurring Problem of Sin | p. 75 |
The Eucharist and the Idea of Sacraments | p. 86 |
Eucharist | p. 86 |
Sacraments | p. 90 |
Organization, Making Decisions and Keeping Together | p. 93 |
Councils and Other Ways of Making Decisions | p. 93 |
The Fifteenth-Century Bid for Conciliarism Instead of Primatial Government of the Church | p. 98 |
The Church and the State | p. 109 |
The Two Swords | p. 109 |
The Body Politic, the City, the Corporation and the Church | p. 117 |
Titles and Benefices and the Growing Problem of the Church's Wealth | p. 121 |
Continuity and Change in the Middle Ages | |
Monastic Life, Monastic Education and Awakening Social Concerns | p. 127 |
Guibert of Nogent: Monk and Social Commentator | p. 127 |
Monasteries as Powerhouses of Education | p. 138 |
The Beginning of Academic Theology and the Invention of Universities | p. 145 |
The Invention of Universities | p. 145 |
Bible Study and the Beginning of Academic Theology | p. 161 |
The Evangelical Urge and the Wandering Preachers | p. 167 |
Preaching Becomes Popular Again | p. 167 |
The Formal Rhetorical Art of Preaching | p. 174 |
The Franciscans and the Dominicans | p. 177 |
Religious Experiments by the Laity | p. 190 |
Working People, Active Orders | p. 190 |
Exemplary Individuals and Being an Example to Others | p. 194 |
Glimpses of Ordinary Lives: Learning What to Believe and How to Live | p. 201 |
The Church Fosters the Mixed Life | p. 205 |
Rebels, Repression and the Stirrings of Reform | p. 209 |
Social Comment and the Debate About Poverty | p. 209 |
John Wyclif | p. 214 |
John Hus | p. 225 |
Continuity and Change from the Reformation | |
Renaissance | p. 231 |
The Rediscovery of the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures | p. 231 |
The Biblical Languages and the Universities | p. 242 |
Humanism or Scholasticism: The Two Ways | p. 248 |
Luther and His Heirs: The Moderate Reformers | p. 263 |
The Conversion of Martin Luther and Its Consequences | p. 263 |
Melanchthon, Moderation and Building a Bridge Between the Academic and the Popular | p. 274 |
Creating a Lutheran Doctrinal System | p. 282 |
Henry VIII and the English Reformation | p. 293 |
Peaceful Extremists? The Anabaptist Heirs of the Medieval Sects | p. 307 |
Huldreich Zwingli and the Battle with the Anabaptists | p. 307 |
Lutheran "Good Citizens" and Anabaptist Anarchy" | p. 310 |
Calvin and His Heirs: The Reformed Churches | p. 315 |
John Calvin | p. 315 |
France, Huguenots and Some Notable Women | p. 324 |
John Knox and Scotland | p. 327 |
The English Reformation Turns Reformed | p. 333 |
Puritans Leave for the New World | p. 351 |
The Counter-Reformation | p. 364 |
Responding to the Challenge: Reforming Moves in Rome | p. 364 |
Science and the Bible from a Roman Catholic Perspective | p. 373 |
Church and State Again: New Political Dimensions of the Idea of Order | p. 379 |
Bible Questions Continue | p. 390 |
Wrestling with the Humanity of Scripture | p. 390 |
Textual Difficulties and Translation Issues | p. 395 |
The Style and Obscurity of Scripture | p. 402 |
Increasingly Radical Divergences of Opinion and Practice | p. 405 |
Conclusion | p. 421 |
Handlist of Reformation Concerns and Their History | p. 430 |
Select Bibliography | p. 456 |
Author Index | p. 469 |
Subject Index | p. 472 |
Scripture Index | p. 480 |
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