CHAPTER VI.

HISTORY OF THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE IN EUROPE FROM 1520 TO 1550.

Progress of the Reformation 171

Interference of Civil Power 171

Excitement of Revolutionary Spirit 172

Growth of Fanaticism 172

Differences of Luther and Zwingle 172

Confession of Augsburg 173

Conduct of Erasmus 173

Estimate of it 174

His Controversy with Luther 174

Character of his Epistles 176

His Alienation from the Reformers increases 176

Appeal of the Reformers to the Ignorant 176

Parallel of those Times with the Present 177

Calvin 177

His Institutes 177

Increased Differences among Reformers 178

Reformed Tenets spread in England 178

In Italy 178

Italian Heterodoxy 179

Its Progress in the Literary Classes 180

Servetus 180

Arianism in Italy 181

Protestants in Spain and Low Countries 181

Order of Jesuits 181

Their Popularity 181

Council of Trent 182

Its Chief Difficulties 182

Character of Luther 182

Theological Writings--Erasmus 183

Melanchthon--Romish Writers 183

This Literature nearly forgotten 184

Sermons 184

Spirit of the Reformation 184

Limits of Private Judgment 185

Passions instrumental in Reformation 185

Establishment of new Dogmatism 186

Editions of Scripture 186

Translations of Scripture 186

In English 187

In Italy and Low Countries 187

Latin Translations 187

French Translations 188

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