Disenchanting the English Reformation
Richard Rex on the myths of English history At some point in the second half of the twentieth century, England somewhat unexpectedly ceased
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The World the Reformation Made?
Joel F. Harrington on the modern world and the meaning of the Reformation In 1976, the novelist Kingsley Amis imagined a modern world
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Revolutionary Reading? The Bible of the Reformers
Relearning Where to Stand In the year 1600, there were only a handful of known heliocentrists. Galileo, of course, would do a great
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Edom Divided: Jews and the Reformation
Lars Fischer on Jewish views of the Reformation and Christian anti-Judaism “The Reformation” is really an umbrella term that covers a whole range
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Jesus the Aryan
Susannah Heschel on the Reformation’s Troubling Legacy “Our Volk, which stands above all else in a struggle against the satanic powers of world
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Bringing God’s Word to the People
David Lyle Jeffrey on Translating the Bible in the Reformation The extraordinary popular excitement produced by the first printed vernacular translations of the
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Does Luther Matter?
Carl R. Trueman on the reformer’s legacy Does Luther matter? And if so, why? In this 500th-anniversary year of Luther’s 95 Theses against
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Introduction: Forum on the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
Bruce Gordon on the 500th Anniversary of the Movement The Reformation was a revolution that created a new form of Christianity. What emerged
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Art in a State of Siege
Joseph Leo Koerner on Art and the Reformation We in the field of Northern Renaissance art have hardly finished celebrating one big anniversary,
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The Trial of the Talmud
Anti-Judaism and the Talmud in Medieval French Society The thirteenth century was a tumultuous time for the Jews of France. New regulations limited
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