General Introductions

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General Introductions

	William H. Allison, “The Reformation as Democracy in Religion,” Review & Expositor 15.1 (Jan. 1918): 24-38.
	Richard Staines Arrowsmith [1873-1942], The Prelude to the Reformation. A Study of English Church Life from the Age of Wycliffe to the Breach with Rome. Studies in Church History. London: SPCK, 1923. Hbk. pp.226. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	John Albert Babington [1843-1931], The Reformation. A Religious and Historical Sketch. London: John Murray, 1901. Hbk. pp.362. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	William Henry Beckett [1847-1901], The English Reformation of the Sixteenth Century with Chapters on Monastic England, and the Wycliffite Reformation. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1890. Hbk. pp.312. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Charles Bigg [1840–1908], Wayside Sketches in Ecclesiastical History. Nine Lectures with Notes and Preface. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1906. Hbk. pp.230. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Robert Bogešić, "Reformation of Europe or the Church?" Kairos Evangelical Journal of Theology 5.1 (May 2011): 63-79. pdf
	E. Cameron, The European Reformation. Oxford, 1991.
	Owen Chadwick, The Reformation. London, 1964.
	Owen Chadwick, The Early Reformation on the Continent. Oxford, 2001.
	F.L. Cross & E.A. Livingstone, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Hbk.
	William Cunningham [1805-1861], The Reformers; and the Theology of the Reformation. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1862. Hbk. pp.616. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Edward Lewis Cutts [1824-1908], Turning Points in General Church History. London: SPCK, 1887. Hbk. pp.451. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné [1794-1872], History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Vols. 1-5. London: Religious Tract Society, 1846[?]. Hbk. pp.867. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Andrew Davies, "Was the Reformation a Mistake?" Foundations 1 (November 1978): 52-60. pdf
	Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers. B&H Academic, 2013. ISBN: 978-1433680786. pp.432. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	H.J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Reformation, 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
	Beresford James Kidd [1863-1948], The Continental Reformation. Oxford Church Text Books. London: Rivingtons, 1902. Hbk. pp.142. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Beresford James Kidd [1863-1948], editor, Documents Illustrative of the Continental Reformation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911. Hbk. pp.743. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	C. Lindberg, ed., The European Reformation Sourcebook. Oxford, 2000.
	Thomas Martin Lindsay [1843-1914], The Reformation. Handbooks for Bible Classes and Private Students. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, [1882]. Hbk. pp.114. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Thomas Martin Lindsay [1843-1914], A History of the Reformation in Two Volumes, 2nd edn. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1907. Hbk. pp.528+631. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Alistair E. McGrath, Reformation Thought: An Introduction, 5rd edn. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwells, 2021. ISBN: 978-1119756606. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	Ned P. Maletin, "Dissent and Reform in Russian Orthodox Church History from the 11th through the 16th centuries," Andrews University Seminary Studies 8.1 (Jan. 1970): 51-64. pdf
	W.R. Naphy, ed., Documents on the Continental Reformation. Basingstoke, 1996.
	Mark A. Noll, "The Earliest Protestants and the Reformation of Education," Westminster Theological Journal 43.1 (Fall 1980): 97-131.
	A. Pettegree, ed., The Early Reformation in Europe. Cambridge, 1992.
	A. Pettegree, ed., The Reformation World. London, 2000.
	Leighton Pullan [1865-1940], Religion Since the Reformation. Eight Lectures. Preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1922, on the Foundation of the Rev. John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury, revised. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Hbk. pp.291. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Leopold von Ranke [1795-1886], The History of the Popes, Their Church and State and Especially Their Conflicts with Protestantism in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 3 Vols. London: George Bell and Sons, 1902. Hbk. pp.527+532+484. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	R. Scribner, R. Porter & M. Teich, eds., The Reformation in National Context. Cambridge, 1994.
	Rudolf Sohm [1841-1917], Outlines of Church History, translated by Miss May Sinclair. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. Hbk. pp.260. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	D.C. Steinmetz, Reformers in the Wings from Geiler von Kayserberg to Theodore Beza, 2nd edn. Oxford, 1992.
	J.D. Tracy, Europe's Reformations 1450-1650. Lanham & New York, 2000.
	James Pounder Whitney [1857-1939], Reformation Essays. London: SPCK, 1939. Hbk. pp.172. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]