Heroes & Heretics of the Reformation

Phillip Campbell

• Publisher: TAN Books
• Year: 2017
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781505108712
• Subtopic: Early Modern History
• Index: History

Not since the birth of Christ has an event shaken the foundations of the Western world like the Reformation. Now, 500 years after Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the door at Wittenberg—the sound of which served as the thunder presaging the storm to come—Phillip Campbell, author of The Story of Civilization, casts fresh eyes on thattumultuous time and its most influential characters. It was truly a tumultuous time, filled with heroes, heretics, and some who were a little bit of both. It was a time of destruction and rebuilding. Some sincerely sought reform, while others sought merely to profit by it, and some—perhaps too few—used the events of the time to become saints. In these pages meet as youve never met before:• Martin Luther: The tortured Augustinian monk whose act at Wittenberg called forth the storm• Thomas Müntzer: The radical who, inspired by the new way of thinking and his own apocalyptic views, sought to use the sword to usher in the reign of God; he would feel the sting of Luthers words and the bite of the executioners blade.• The queens: Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, who were at different times bastardized and delegitimized by their father Henry VIII, but who each reigned during this period of upheaval. One is known to history by a derogatory epithet, while the other, ;bloodier; still, has an epoch named in her honor.• The popes: Paul III and Pius V, each of whom sought to save what could be saved of Christendom, one through the calling of the Council of Trent, which codified an authentic Catholic Reform, and the other through the calling of a new crusade to fend off the ever-threatening Turks.• St. Peter Canisius: The man who lived a life of sanctity as he tried to reconcile those who had drifted away back to the Church. Through the lives of those above and others, dramatically unfolded in Campbells stirring narrative, learn how the heroes and heretics of the tumultuous sixteenth century shook the world, for better or for worse.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Saint for the Age: St. Peter Canisius
• Chapter 2: The Exhaustion of Christendom
• Chapter 3: Laying the Egg: Erasmus of Rotterdam
• Chapter 4: The Gloomy World of Martin Luther
• Chapter 5: A House Divided: Emperor Charles V
• Chapter 6: Angel of the Apocalypse: Thomas Müntzer
• Chapter 7: The Austere Scholar: John Calvin
• Chapter 8: Two Witnesses: Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher
• Chapter 9: Thomas Cromwell and Mary Tudor
• Chapter 10: Kirk and State: John Knox and Mary, Queen of Scots
• Chapter 11: The Visionary Pope: Paul III and the Council of Trent
• Chapter 12: Soldiers of the Counter-Reformation: Ignatius & Borromeo
• Chapter 13: Pope St. Pius V
• Chapter 14: The Celebrated Outlaw: St. Edmund Campion
• Chapter 15: El Rey Prudente: King Philip II
• Chapter 16: Catherine de’ Medici
• Conclusion: Commitment to Truth
• Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
• Online Sources Consulted