CH015-508 - Introduction to Reformation

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  • 8
    Credit Points
  • 0.083 EFT 
  • 5
    AQF level
  • Category foundational unit
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  • church historyUnit Discipline

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code CH206-100. Unit exclusions: CH040-512, CH003-506, CH003-706, CH005-512, CH005-712, CH006-512, CH006-712, CH008-612, CH008-712, CH008-812, CH010-612, CH010-712, CH010-812

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Foundational knowledge and understanding of the Reformation.

B. Be able to

1. Describe major developments and people of the Reformation

2. Draw on selected primary and secondary sources to formulate historical viewpoints on the Reformation

3. Present Organised evidence-based perspectives on the Reformation

C. Be in a position to

1. Relating perspectives from ‘The Reformation – An Introduction’ to inform ministry contexts

Content

  1. The consolidation of Catholic Christianity.
  2. The growth and decline of the Papal ecclesiastical state.
  3. Internal controversies, including the Great Schism.
  4. The challenge of Islam, including the Crusades.
  5. The religious and intellectual revivals.
  6. The causes of the Reformation including the conciliar movement and the pre-Reformation reformers.
  7. Martin Luther.
  8. The South German cities and Zurich: Huldrich Zwingli.
  9. The Radical Reformation
  10. John Calvin.
  11. The English Reformation until Henry VIII.
  12. The English Reformation from Edward VI, including the Elizabethan Settlement.
  13. The Reformation in Scotland.
  14. The Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent.

Set Readings

As well as the works listed in General Recommended Readings, the following provide more detailed treatments of sections of this unit.

 

General:

Hillerbrand, H. J. (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (New York: OUP, 1996).

MacCulloch, D., Reformation: Europe’s House Divided, 1490–1700 (London: Penguin, 2003).

 

Europe

Primary Documents:

Lindberg, C., The European Reformations Sourcebook (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).

Secondary References:

Cottret, B., Calvin: A Biography (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000).

Dixon, C. S., The Reformation in Germany (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).

Evans, G. R., John Wyclif: Myth and Reality (Oxford: Lion, 2005).

Gabler, U., Huldrych Zwingli: His Life and Work (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1986).

Hillerbrand, H. J, The Division of Christendom: Christianity in the Sixteenth Century (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007).

Mullett, M., The Catholic Reformation (New York: Routledge, 1999).

Nohl, F., Luther: Biography of a Reformer (St Louis, MO: Concordia, 2003).

Pearse, M., The Great Restoration: The Religious Radicals of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998).

 

Britain

Primary Documents:

Bray, G. (ed.), Documents of the English Reformation (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994).

Secondary References:

Bernard, G. W., The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Re-making of the English Church (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).

Dickens, A. G., The English Reformation (2nd ed.; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1989).

Kellar, C., Scotland, England & the Reformation 1534-61 (Oxford: Clarendon, 2003).

MacCulloch, D., Thomas Cranmer (Yale: Yale University, 1996).

Marshall, P. and A. Ryrie (eds), The Beginnings of English Protestantism (Cambridge: CUP, 2002).

Rosman, D. M., The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500-2000 (New York: CUP, 2003).

Wooding, L. E. C., Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England (Oxford; New York: Clarendon; OUP, 2000).