Continental Reformation by B J Kidd

Today’s free book is a brief overview of the Continental Reformation by B J Kidd, focusing on Germany and Switzerland. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitsation.

Beresford James Kidd [1863-1948], The Continental Reformation. Oxford Church Text Books. London: Rivingtons, 1902. Hbk. pp.142. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

1. Luther (1483-1517)
2. Reform. From the Publication of the Theses to the Diet of Worms (1517-1521)
3. Revolution. From the Diet of Worms to the Diet of Speyer (1521-1526)
4. Reconstruction. From the Diet of Speyer to the Diet of Augsburg (1526-1530)
5. Conflict. From the Diet of Augsburg to the Peace of Augsberg (1530-1555)
6. In German Swutzerland. Zürich—Zwingli (1519-1531)
7. In French Switzerland. Geneva—Calvin (1541-15464)
8. The Principles of the Reformation

• Appendix: The Territorial expansion of Protestantism
• Appendix: The Territorial expansion of the Reformed
• Index

Main Image: This 19th-century painting by Julius Hübner sensationalizes Luther’s posting of the Theses before a crowd. In reality, posting theses for a disputation would have been routine. Source: Wikipedia