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    The Reformation: What You Need to Know and Why
    The Reformation: What You Need to Know and Why
    The Reformation: What You Need to Know and Why
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    The Reformation: What You Need to Know and Why

    By Reeves, Michael; Stott and John

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    The Reformation changed everything - culture, commerce and learning. Here in these few pages we focus on its core, its defining of a new Protestant church.

    While Wittenberg in 1517 is often regarded as ‘the start of the Reformation’, the earliest-recorded ‘heretik’ died in Scotland more than a hundred years earlier. Part l offers a fast-paced storyline of the whole period. The Reformation: What You Need to Know and Why does not celebrate a schism. It sets forth biblical truth, and the part each of us must play in passing that truth on to the next generation. If the church is to be effective, we must believe and confess the gospel, obey it and adorn it, proclaim it and argue it, defend it, and be willing to suffer for it.

    What of Christ’s prayer for Christians to ‘be one’? Would it be better to ignore, even forget the Reformation? If we look more closely at that prayer, we may be surprised by what we find.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHendrickson Publishers
    Release dateOct 1, 2017
    ISBN9781683071761
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      The Reformation - Reeves

      The Reformation: What You Need to Know and Why (eBook edition)

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      © 2017 Lausanne Movement

      Part II first appeared under the title Make the Truth Known: Maintaining the Evangelical Faith Today (Leicester, UK: Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship). Delivered in Abergele, Wales, Easter 1982, it formed John Stott’s UCCF 1981–1982 Presidential Address. This text, updated in 2016 by kind agreement, is used with permission. Copyright: UCCF.

      Appendix 1 first appeared in In Depth, a publication of Crosslinks (April 2014). This text, also updated in 2016 by kind agreement, is used with permission. Copyright: Crosslinks

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      First eBook edition — October 2017

      Royalties have kindly been donated to support the publishing ministry of the Lausanne Movement.

      Cover design by John Ruffin

      Contents

      Copyright

      Epigraphs

      Reformation Timeline

      A Pre-Reformation Hymn

      Foreword

      Lindsay Brown

      PART I: The Story and Significance of the Reformation

      Michael Reeves

      PART II: Keep the Faith and Pass It On

      John Stott

      APPENDICES

      Jesus’ Prayer for Unity in His Church: Alan Purser

      Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

      Questions for Study and Reflection

      Recommended Reading

      Lausanne Movement

      Responses to the Reformation from across the world may be found at lausanne.org/reformation.

      ‘To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ. . . . I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints’

      Jude, servant—and earthly brother—of Jesus Christ (v. 3)

      ‘That one sentence did so exhilarate my heart, which had been so wounded with guilt for my sins, that immediately I felt a marvellous comfort and assurance. That Scripture is more pleasant to me than a honeycomb.’

      Thomas Bilney, early Cambridge Reformer, on justification by grace through faith

      ‘The Reformers loved not their lives even unto death, so that we could receive the precious and eternal gospel intact. In this age of amnesia, relativism and superficiality, we must hold fast to this same gospel, and pass it on. For we too walk in that triumphant procession of God’s prophets and apostles, spurred on by a great cloud of witnesses.

      ‘Cambodian Christians went through their own Neronian persecution, under Pol Pot. They always knew themselves to be a counter-culture, and that to follow Christ would mean being crucified by a sinful world and cruciformed by a holy God.’

      Don Cormack, author of Killing Fields, Living Fields: An Unfinished Portrait of the Cambodian Church

      Reformation Timeline

      In so modest a volume only the barest story may be contained of the remarkable work of grace which played out in the bravest of lives. Each name below merits a book chapter of its own, as does the life and death of each martyr not included here. The inclusion of several leading figures not appearing elsewhere in this book is to invite readers’ further exploration.

      In the few instances where dates are unverifiable, we have shown those most commonly used.

      1324     John Wycliffe, ‘Morning Star of the Reformation,’ born in Yorkshire, England

      1369     Jan Hus born in Husinec, Bohemia[1]

      1384     John Wycliffe dies in Leicestershire, England. His challenge to contemporary beliefs was continued by a diffuse group known as the Wycliffites or (derisively) Lollards.

      1401     Statute passed in England for burning of ‘heretiks.’ William Sawtrey is the first to burn, in Smithfield, London.

      1407     James Resby burned in Perth, Scotland in 1407 or 1408[2]

      1412     Jan Hus appeals publicly to Jesus Christ above church authority[3]

      1414     Jan Hus lured to Council of Constance. Burned in Constance, Switzerland

      1416     Graduands at St Andrews University required to swear resistance to Lollards

      1433     Paul Craw (or Pavel Kravar) from Bohemia burned in St Andrews, Scotland

      1450     Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press

      1466     Desiderius Erasmus born in Rotterdam, Netherlands

      1483     Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Saxony

      1484     Huldrych Zwingli born in Wildhaus, Switzerland

      1487     Hugh Latimer born in Leicestershire, England

      1489     Thomas Cranmer born in Nottinghamshire, England

      1491     William Tyndale born in Gloucestershire, England

      1494     Martin Bucer born in Sélestat, France

      1495     Thomas Bilney born in Norfolk, England

      1499     Peter Martyr Vermigli born in Florence, Italy, and John a Lasco in Łask, Poland

      1500     Nicholas Ridley born in Northumberland, England

      1505     Luther joins Augustinian monastery

      1504     Heinrich Bullinger born in Aargau, Switzerland

      1509     John Calvin born in Noyon, France

      1513     John Knox born in Haddington, Scotland

      1516     Erasmus publishes Greek New Testament

      1517     Luther posts 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg

      1521     Diet of Worms. Luther taken into protective custody in Wartburg Castle, where he translates the New Testament into German. Henry VIII publishes his Defence of the Seven Sacraments against Luther and is awarded the title ‘Defender of the Faith.’

      1522     Luther completes German translation of the New Testament

      1526     William Tyndale’s English New Testament completed

      1528     Patrick Hamilton burned for heresy in St Andrews, Scotland

      1531     Thomas Bilney burned for heresy in Norwich, England

      1532     Thomas

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