The Reformation

The beginning of the sixteenth century brought growing pressure within the Western Church for Reformation. Western Europe divided into a Catholic South and Protestant North. Across the no man's land between them were fought the bitterest wars of religion in Christian history, until, gradually, the modern religious map of Europe took shape. In this, the third volume of the Penguin History of the Church, Professor Chadwick deals with the formative work of Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli and Calvin, and analyzes the special circumstances of the English Reformation as well as the Jesuits and the Counter-Reformation. 463 pages.