The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One Holy Catholic & Apostolic Church HC 

By listening to the Reformers' own voices, The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One Holy Catholic And Apostolic Church helps readers explore:

• The Reformation's roots in patristic and medieval thought and its response to late medieval innovations.
• Key philosophical and theological differences between Scholasticism in the High Middle Ages and deviations in the Late Middle Ages.
• The many ways sixteenth and seventeenth century Protestant Scholastics critically appropriated Thomas Aquinas.
• The Reformation's response to the charge of novelty by an appeal to the Augustinian tradition.
• Common caricatures that charge the Reformation with schism or assume the Reformation was the gateway to secularism.
• The spread of Reformation catholicity across Europe, as seen in first and second-generation leaders from Luther and Melanchthon in Wittenberg to Zwingli and Bullinger in Zurich to Bucer and Calvin in Strasbourg and Geneva to Tyndale, Cranmer, and Jewel in England, and many others.
• The theology of the Reformers, with special attention on their writings defending the catholicity of the Reformation.

This balanced, insightful, and accessible treatment of the Reformation will help readers see this watershed moment in the history of Christianity with fresh eyes and appreciate the unity they have with the church across time. Readers will discover that the Reformation was not a new invention, but the renewal of something very old.