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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

The principal authority on the subject is Gerhart B.
Ladner, The Idea of Reform: Its Impact on Christian
Thought and Action in the Age of the Fathers
(Cambridge,
Mass., 1959), pp. 35, 9-34, 39-44, 63-107, 133-42; “Refor-
matio,” S. H. Miller and G. E. Wright, eds., Ecumenical
Dialogue at Harvard
(Cambridge, Mass., 1964), pp. 170-90,
especially 172-81. Other helpful titles include: Konrad
Burdach, Reformation, Renaissance, Humanismus (Berlin,
1918; 1926), pp. 37-42; William Clebsch, From Sacred to
Profane America
(New York, 1968); Jean Delumeau,
Naissance et affirmation de la réforme (Paris, 1965); Mircea
Eliade, Le mythe de l'éternel retour (Paris, 1949); idem, The
Two and the One
(London, 1965), p. 148; Wallace K.
Ferguson, The Renaissance in Historical Thought (Boston,
1948); Brian Gerrish, “John Calvin and the Meaning of
Reformation,” McCormick Quarterly, 21 (Nov. 1967),
114-22; Heinrich Koller, ed., Reformation Kaiser Sigismunds
(Stuttgart, 1964), pp. 4-5; Wilhelm Maurer, “Reformation,”
Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, V (Tübingen,
1961), cols. 858-73, 861-63; Heiko Oberman, Forerunners
of the Reformation
(New York, 1966); Robert D. Preus, The
Theology of Post-Reformation Lutheranism
(St. Louis, 1970);
Martin Schmidt, “Who Reforms the Church?” in S. H.
Miller and G. E. Wright, eds., Ecumenical Dialogue at
Harvard
(Cambridge, Mass., 1964), pp. 191-206; Lewis W.
Spitz, ed., The Reformation—Material or Spiritual? (Boston,
1962); idem, The Renaissance and Reformation Movements
(Chicago, 1971); Charles Trinkaus, “In our Image and Like-
ness
”: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought,
2 vols. (Chicago, 1970); George H. Williams, The Radical
Reformation
(Philadelphia, 1962), p. 865; Herbert Workman,
The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal (London, 1918), pp.
219-24.

LEWIS W. SPITZ

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