CH010-712 - The Reformation in Europe & Britain

  • 2,784 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • Category developing unit
    B
  • church historyUnit Discipline

Corequisites

96cps of study, including 36 cps at AQF level 6

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code CH424. Unit exclusions: CH006-512, CH006-712, CH008-612, CH008-712, CH008-813

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Functional knowledge and understanding of the Reformation in Europe & Britain.

B. Be able to

1. Critically analsyse the major phases and developments of the Reformation in Europe & Britain in their political and social contexts

2. Evaluate the contribution of selected people to the Reformation in Europe and Britain

3. Integrate data from selected primary and secondary sources to formulate Critical historical viewpoints on the history of the Reformation in Europe & Britain

4. Present Critical evidence-based perspectives on the history of the Reformation in Europe & Britain

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying perspectives from ‘The Reformation Reformation in Europe & Britain’ to inform ministry practice as a reflective practitioner

Content

Section A: The Reformation in its Historical Contexts

The study of at least five of the following topics:

  1. The Medieval and Renaissance background.
  2. Martin Luther and the German Reformation
  3. Huldrych Zwingli; the Anabaptists
  4. John Calvin and the Reformation in Geneva
  5. The English Church under Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I
  6. The Elizabethan Settlement; Cranmer; Puritanism; Hooker
  7. The Catholic Reformation: Council of Trent and the Jesuits
  8. The Reformation in Scotland

Section B: The Reformation – Primary Sources

The study and analysis of a selection of 4-8 primary documents, chosen from the following (or equivalent primary texts):

Latimer, Sermon of the Plough, Sermons on the Card

Hooper, Sermons on Jonah

Jewel, Challenge Sermon 1559/1560

Parr, Lamentation of a Sinner

Luther, Three Treatises of 1520
Zwingli, Of the Clarity and Certainty of the Word of God

Argula von Grumbach, To the University of Ingolstadt (1523)

Bucer, Instruction in Christian Love
Hubmaier, On Free Will
Calvin, Ecclesiastical Ordinances, Institutes (part of Book IV)

The Canons & Decrees of the Council of Trent (Sessions VI, VII, XIII, XIV, XXI-XXIII)

Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle (selections)

Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises (First – Fourth Week, and Rules)
Elton, The Tudor Constitution (document numbers 174-185; 190-209)

Ridley, Treatise against Transubstantiation

Preface to Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (Book of Martyrs)

Prefaces to Bible translations: Tyndale’s NT, Great Bible, Geneva Bible

The Examination of Anne Askew

The Thirty-nine Articles, or “Preface” and “On Ceremonies” from the Book of Common Prayer

The Second Book of Discipline of the Church of Scotland

The primary sources selected from Section B listed above, should be studied in relation to the topics covered in Section A in the delivery of the unit.

Set Readings

Recommended Readings

Bernard, G. W., The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Re-making of the English Church. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Bray, G. (ed.), Documents of the English Reformation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
Dickens, A. G., The English Reformation. 2nd ed.; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1989.
Dixon, C. S., The Reformation in Germany. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Elton, G. E. (ed.), The Tudor Constitution. 2nd ed. Cambridge: CUP, 1983.
Gäbler, U., Huldrych Zwingli: His Life and Work. London: Bloomsbury, 1999.
Gordon, Bruce. Calvin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009.
Gordon, Bruce. The Swiss Reformation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.
Hendrix, Scott H. Recultivating the Vineyard: The Reformation Agendas of Christianization. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.
Hillerbrand, H. J. (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. New York: OUP, 1996.
Hillerbrand, H. J., The Division of Christendom: Christianity in the Sixteenth Century. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.
Ives, Eric. The Reformation Experience: Life in a Time of Change. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2012.
Kellar, C., Scotland, England & the Reformation 1534-61. Oxford: Clarendon, 2003.
Kolb, Robert, Irene Dingel, and L’Ubomir Batka, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Leppin, Volker. Luther: A Late Medieval Life. Translated by Rhys S. Bezzant and Karen Roe. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2017.
Lindberg, Carter. The European Reformations. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
Lindberg, Carter. The European Reformations Sourcebook. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2014.
MacCulloch, D., Thomas Cranmer 4th ed. Yale: Yale University, 1998.
McGrath, Alister E. Reformation Thought: An Introduction. 4th ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012.
McNeill, J. T. (ed.), Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion. 2 Vols; London: SCM, 1961.
Mullett, M., The Catholic Reformation. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Pearse, M., The Great Restoration: The Religious Radicals of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.  Carlisle: Paternoster, 2006.
Roper, Lyndal, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet. New York: Random House, 2017. 
Rublack, U. (ed). The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Thompson, M., Bale, C., and Loane, E. (eds) Celebrating the Reformation: Its Continuing Legacy and Relevance. London: Inter-Varsity, 2017.
Zahl, Paul F. M. Five Women of the English Reformation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.
 

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