Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Reformation: an introduction

Christianity in the late middle ages

Humanism and the reformation

Scholasticism and the reformation

The reformers: a biographical introduction

The return to the bible

The doctrine of justification by faith

The doctrine of the church

The doctrine of the sacraments

The doctrine of predestination

The political thought of the reformation

The religious ideas of the English Reformation

The diffusion of the thought of the reformation

The impact of reformation thought upon history