The Roots of the Reformation: Tradition, Emergence and Rupture, second edition

Evans, G. R.

ISBN 10: 0830839968 / ISBN 13: 9780830839964

Published by IVP Academic, 2012

About this Item

NOT an ex library book. 479 pages including the index.

Seller Inventory # 348148

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Roots of the Reformation: Tradition, Emergence and Rupture, second edition
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0830839968
• ISBN 13: 9780830839964
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: First Edition, full list of numb.
• Condition: fine
• Weight: 25 ounces

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Synopsis

• 2012 Midwest Publishing Association Crystal Book Award honorable mention

Renowned historian G. R. Evans revisits the question of what happened at the Reformation. Contravening traditional paradigms of interpretation, Evans charts the controversies and challenges that roiled the era of the Reformation and argues that these are really part of a much longer history of discussion and disputation. Evans takes up several issues, such as Scripture, ecclesiology, authority, sacraments and ecclesio-political relations, and traces the shape of the charged discussions that orbited around these through the patristic, medieval and Reformation eras. In this, she demonstrates that in many ways the Reformation was in considerable continuity with the periods that preceded it, though the consequential outcome of the debates in the sixteenth century was dramatically different.

About the Author

G. R. Evans is professor of medieval theology and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge and was British Academy Research Reader in Theology from 1986 to 1988. She has written on a wide range of medieval authors, including Augustine, Gregory the Great, Anselm, Bernard of Clairvaux and Alan of Lille. She has also written The Language and Logic of the Bible (Cambridge University Press) and Faith in the Medieval World (InterVarsity Press).