This study is in its broadest sense an inquiry into the intellectual origins of the Reformed branch of Protestantism generally, but inaccurately, designated Calvinism. More specifically, it concerns one of the early theologians who gave formative shape to Reformed theology, Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562), and focuses on his adoption of the soteriological doctrine of gemina praedestinatio, double predestination: divine election and divine reprobation.

Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination: The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs)

History

James III, Frank A.

World

Clarendon Press

Church history is the story of the greatest community the world has known and the greatest movement in world history. Yet, just as the biblical record of the people of God is the story of a mixed people with great acts of faith and great failures in sin and unfaithfulness, so is the history of the people who have made up the church down through the ages.
Church History, Volume Two is an account of the ups and downs, the triumphs and struggles, of the Christian movement. It offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed from the just prior to the Reformation and through the next five-hundred-plus years into the present-day. This book looks closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church, detailing the times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church.
Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, gives primary attention to the history of Christianity in the West (western Europe and North America), but given the global and ecumenical environment of the twenty-first century, it also covers Africa, eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Church History, Volume Two: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day: The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context

Business & Money

Woodbridge, John D.

Economics

Zondervan Academic

Church History, Volume Two Video Lectures features 22 lessons (on 3 DVDs) and offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed from Reformation times to the present. It did so not in a vacuum, but in a setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. These lectures help explore the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church.A companion to the widely used textbook Church History, Volume Two by John D. Woodbridge and Frank A. James III, the lectures feature the authors teaching through each chapter in the book. Designed with the student in mind, each lecture is approximately 30 minutes in length. The lectures recount the ups and downs, the triumphs and struggles, of the Christian movement. Primary attention is given to the history of Christianity in the West, but developments in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America are also covered.Useful for traditional students, students in distance and online courses, and independent learners alike, these lectures provide a full introduction to church history from the period just prior to the Reformation through the next five hundred-plus years.Session Titles and Runtimes:1 - European Christianity in an Age of Adversity, Renaissance, and Discovery (1300-1500) (25 min)2 - The Renaissance and the Christian Faith (37 min)3 - Luther's Reformation: A Conscience Unbound (35 min)4 - The Swiss Reformations: The Maturation of International Calvinism (33 min)5 - Radicals and Rome: Responses to the Magisterial Reformation (30 min)6 - Reformations in England: The Politics of Reform (16th Century) (25 min)7 - Refining the Reformation: Theological Currents in the Seventeenth Century (35 min)8 - Christianity in an Age of Fear, Crisis, and Exploration (17th Century) (24 min)9 - Christianity and the Question of Authority (17th Century) (34 min)10 - Christianity under Duress: The Age of Lights (1680-1789) (33 min)11 - Christianity in the Age of Lights (1): The British Isles (1680-1789) (30 min)12 - Christianity in the Age of Lights (2): The Kingdom of France (1680-1789) (28 min)13 - Christianity in the Age of Lights (3): The Continent of Europe (1680-1789) (36 min)14 - Christianity in an Age of Revolutions (1770-1848) (35 min)15 - Adjusting to Modernization and Secularism: The Rise of Protestant Liberalism (1799-1919) (38 min)16 - Nineteenth-Century Christianity in the British Isles: Renewal, Missions, and the Crisis of Faith (36 min)17 - The Christian Churches on the European Continent (1814-1914) (31 min)18 - Global Christianity: A Re-Centered Faith (20th and 21st Centuries) (17 min)19 - Modern Theological Trajectories: Spiraling into the Third Millennium (20th and 21st Centuries) (32 min)20 - Catholicism and Orthodoxy: Collision to Collegiality (20th and 21st Centuries) (30 min)21 - Contemporary American Evangelicalism: Permutations and Progressions (20th and 21st Centuries) (38 min)22 - Christianity and Islam: The Challenge of the Future (21st Century) (19 min)

Church History, Volume Two Video Lectures: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day

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Volume Two shows how the church developed from the just prior to the Reformation and through the next five-hundred-plus years into the present-day. Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, it gives primary attention to the history of Christianity in the West (western Europe and North America), but given the global and ecumenical environment of the twenty-first century, it also covers Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
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Learn Church History Pack: From Christ to the Present Day

FERGUSON, EVERETT

The Church History, Volume Two Pack offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed from the just prior to the Reformation through the next 500 years into the present day. It did so, not in a vacuum, but in a setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. This resource looks closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church.
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<li>Church History, Volume Two. This bestselling textbook explores the development of the church from the Reformation to today. Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, it gives primary attention to the history of Christianity in the West (western Europe and North America), but given the global and ecumenical environment of the twenty-first century, it also covers Africa, eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.</li>
<li>Church History Volume Two Video Lectures. This DVD features a video lecture for each of the 22 chapters in the textbook, which amounts to almost 8 hours of video.</li>
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Church History, Volume Two Pack: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day