A Reformation Reader

Primary Texts with Introductions

Second Edition

edited by

Denis R. Janz

Fortress Press

Minneapolis

A Reformation Reader

Primary Texts with Introductions

Second Edition

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Cover images: Martin Luther Preaching from His Bible Translation during His Arrest at the Wartburg, 1882, Hugo Vogel, photo by Elke Walford © Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, NY; Portrait of John Calvin, engraving by Konrad Meyer, 1616–1689, photo © Photos.com/JupiterImages; Portrait of Thomas Müntzer, photo © Kean Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Portrait of Pope Pius IV. Photo courtesy of the Kessler Collection, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University; Detail from the Works of Christine de Pizan, France, fifteenth century, British Library, photo © HIP/Art Resource, NY; Portrait of Henry VIII, sixteenth century, photo © Photos.com/JupiterImages.

Cover design: The Design Works Group, Jason Gabbert

Interior design: Beth Wright

Author photo: Harold Baquet

Maps: © 2006, 2008 Lucidity Information Design, LLC. Used by permission.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A reformation reader: primary texts with introductions / edited by Denis R. Janz.—2nd ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-8006-6310-0

1. Reformation—Sources. I. Janz, Denis.

BR301.R44 2008

270.6–dc22

2008016619

For Don, Rob, and Jon

Contents

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List of Illustrations

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Late Medieval Background

Introduction

Spirituality

1. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

The Papacy

2. Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam

3. Leo X, Pastor Aeternus

The Status of Women

4. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies

5. Heinrich Kraemer, O.P., and Jacob Sprenger, O.P., Malleus Maleficarum

6. Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex

7. Desiderius Erasmus, The Abbot and the Learned Lady

Exegesis

8. Jacobus Faber Stapulensis, Introduction to the Commentary on the Psalms

Moral Instruction

9. The Fasciculus Morum

Theology

10. Thomas Bradwardine, The Cause of God against the Pelagians

11. Gabriel Biel, The Circumcision of the Lord

Indulgences

12. Clement VI, Unigenitus

13. Sixtus IV, Salvator noster

14. Albert of Mainz, Instructio summaria

Eating, Sleeping, and Dying

15. Dietrich Kolde, Mirror for Christians

Criticism

16. Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly

Recommended for Further Reading

Chapter 2. Martin Luther

Introduction

The Person

17. Autobiographical Fragment: Preface to the Complete Edition of Luther’s Latin Writings...

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About A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions

Although deeply political, economic, and social, the European Reformations of the sixteenth century were at heart religious disputes over core Christian theological issues. Denis Janz’s A Reformation Reader is unabashed in its generous selection of key theological and related texts from five distinct Reformation sites. Along with plenty on the late-medieval background, the Lutheran, Calvinist, Radical, English, and Catholic Reformations are all well-represented here.

Janz’s selection of more than 100 carefully edited primary documents captures the energy and moment of that tumultuous time. The new edition incorporates a dozen readings by and about women in the Reformation, adds a new chapter on Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants’ War, and adds illuminating graphics.

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