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Reformation Views of Church History (Paperback, New Ed)
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Reformation Views of Church History (Paperback, New Ed)
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Glanmor Williams presents different views of Church History
propagated by English writers during the Reformation. Williams
introduces this topic by exploring the continental background,
including Luther's arguments, the opponents and Luther's influence
on important English authors of the sixteenth century. Almost as
soon as Luther came to communicate his sensibilities to others he
began to realise that defenders of orthodoxy would denounce them as
an intolerably presumptuous threat on the part of a single
misguided monk to fifteen hundred years of established authority in
the Church. Quite apart from the counter-arguments such as those
raised by the clerical controversialist, Eck, there was the obvious
and very serious objection against criticism of the Church, voiced
by the Emperor Charles V: "For it is certain", he protested, "that
a single monk must err if he stands against the opinion of all
Christendom. Otherwise Christendom itself would have erred for more
than a thousand years." On October 31, 1517, the then obscure
friar-professor, Martin Luther, pinned up his ninety-five arguments
on the church door at Wittenberg. He was, unknown to himself,
proclaiming doctrines which wer
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