The following resource is on sale, but the product page has very little essential information.
The resource is a collection of original sources. It sure would be helpful if a list of exactly which original sources were included!
https://www.logos.com/product/21095/the-protestant-reformation-major-documents
Small world, eh? Spitz' father was my professor at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in the late 1950's .... we knew Spitz, Jr., from around the Sem Campus!
Here's the Forward from the book if that's helpful ........ it's quite an excellent and very scholarly book indeed! *smile*
FOREWORD
In this book the reader will find a series of statements made between the years 1501 and 1559, illustrating the ideas, beliefs, and sometimes the fates, of men and women who had come to share a profound discontent with the church as it then existed and a positive determination to put new strength into the life of the spirit. They did not often agree on anything else; many times they denounced each other’s theories and behavior, and sometimes even killed each other, although more often they met with violence at the hands of the established authorities. Except for Erasmus, the reforming humanist who stayed within the church, all of these people were “Protestants” on the offensive. As Professor Spitz points out, there had long been many Catholics who felt similar discontent and a similar determination, but their opportunity to launch a counter-offensive did not arise until the second half of the same century.The spectrum ranges from Erasmus and Hutten the humanists, to Luther and Melanchthon; thence to Zwingli, to Sattler the Anabaptist and Servetus the Unitarian, to Calvin the theologian and lawgiver; and, finally, to the English reformers, a special breed—from the rabble-rousing Fish to Cromwell the administrator, Starkey the moderate, the King, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.What did these people believe? Here we may read all of Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, all of Zwingli’s Sixty-seven Articles, the Anabaptist Confession, Farel and Calvin’s Geneva Convention, Henry VIII’s Six Articles, the Elizabethan Act of Settlement. How did they reach their beliefs? Here is the record of Luther’s inner wrestling and theological break-through; here is Calvin’s own account of his conversion. And here we may listen to the moving voices of human beings in the grip of passionate emotions: Melanchthon lamenting Luther, whom he ranks with Isaiah, John the Baptist, St. Paul, and Augustine, and whom he remembers not only as a brilliant expositor and tireless fighter but as kind, affable, and gracious; Michael Sattler facing his judges’ sneers and abuse as calmly as he faces their grisly tortures; Lady Jane Grey showing herself a Protestant theologian at age sixteen, four days before the authorities executed her.By his choice of little-known documents to accompany the key central statements of the reformers, by his terse and lucid remarks prefaced to each selection, and by his sweeping, tightly-packed introduction to the whole volume, Professor Spitz has made it possible to see the Protestant Reformation vividly and to see it whole.
Robert Lee WolffCoolidge Professor of HistoryHarvard University
Spitz, L. W. (1999). The Protestant Reformation: major documents (electronic ed., pp. v–vi). St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House.
From the see inside feature, you can access the ToC: TABLE of CONTENTS
Apparently the results of "See Inside" are different for different people. I saw *none* of the ToC when I used it. That's what happens to me more often than not with "See Inside."
Thanks for posting this.
Donnie
Apparently the results of "See Inside" are different for different people.
One has to do some digging to get any detail.
That's why I'd think they'd post (at least) a listing of the documents included on the surface page.
I'm not angry about it. I'm pointing out it simply makes sense to do this.
I see no TOC in the preview pages either. It's disappointing.
From the see inside feature, you can access the ToC: TABLE of CONTENTS Apparently the results of "See Inside" are different for different people. I saw *none* of the ToC when I used it. That's what happens to me more often than not with "See Inside."
Donnie, some years ago, when people complained about exactly this and compared Logos' "See inside" with that of major book retailers, the function got somewhat revamped. Since then you'll always have the ToC:
which gives what I posted above (after opening all the collapsed levels)
and the little (i) in the top right corner opens the resource description, including the support info with the internal name:
so without owning the resource I can built a logosres-link: logosres:refmjdoc for here or a Reading List.
Hope this helps a bit.
Mick
Ha! That helps more than a bit. That's fantastic - thank you so much.
Wow, that's news to me. I wonder if I was on vacation the week that changed.
