"The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out across the world. The protests against indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for reform and renewal in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first Germany and then Europe as a whole …
"The formative works of Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin, and analyses the special circumstances of the English Reformation as well as the Jesuits and the Counter-Reformation." --Cover