the Week of Proper 27 / Ordinary 32
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Historical Writings
Church and Denominational History
Writings of James Aitken Wylie
The History of Protestantism
Book 1 — Progress From the First to the Fourteenth Century
Chapter 2 — Declension of the early Christian Church
Chapter 3 — Development of the Papacy from the times of Constantine to those of Hildebrand
Chapter 4 — Development of the Papacy from Gregory VII to Boniface VIII
Chapter 5 — Mediaeval Protestant Witnesses
Chapter 6 — The Waldenses - Their valleys
Chapter 7 — The Waldenses - Their missions and martyrdoms
Chapter 9 — Crusades against the Albigenses
Chapter 10 — Erection of Tribunal of Inquisition
Chapter 11 — Protestants before Protestantism
Chapter 12 — Abelard, and Rise of Modern Skepticism
Book 2 — Wicliffe and His Times, or Advent of Protestantism
Chapter 1 — Wicliffe: his Birth and Education
Chapter 2 — Wicliffe, and the Pope's encroachments on England
Chapter 3 — Wicliffe's battle with Rome for England's independence
Chapter 4 — Wicliffe's battle with the Mendicant Friars
Chapter 5 — The Friars versus the Gospel in England
Chapter 6 — The Battle of the Parliament with the Pope
Chapter 7 — Persecution of Wicliffe by the Pope and the Hierarchy
Chapter 8 — Hierarchical persecution of Wicliffe resumed
Chapter 9 — Wicliffe's views on Church property and Church reform
Chapter 10 — The translation of the Scriptures, or the English Bible
Chapter 11 — Wicliffe and Transubstantiation
Chapter 12 — Wicliffe's appeal to Parliament
Chapter 13 — Wicliffe before convocation in person, and before the Roman Curia by letter
Chapter 14 — Wicliffe's last days
Chapter 15 — Wicliffe's theological and Church system
Book 3 — John Huss and the Hussite Wars
Chapter 1 — Birth, education, and first labours of Huss
Chapter 2 — Huss begins his warfare against Rome
Chapter 3 — Growing opposition of Huss to Rome
Chapter 4 — Preparations for the Council of Constance
Chapter 5 — Deposition of the rival Popes
Chapter 6 — Imprisonment and examination of Huss
Chapter 7 — Condemnation and Martyrdom of Huss
Chapter 8 — Wicliffe and Huss compared in their theology, their character, and their labours
Chapter 9 — Trial and temptation of Jerome
Chapter 10 — The trial of Jerome
Chapter 11 — Condemnation and burning of Jerome
Chapter 12 — Wicliffe, Huss, and Jerome, or the first three witnesses of modern Christendom
Chapter 14 — Commencement of the Hussite Wars
Chapter 15 — Marvellous genius of Ziska as a general
Chapter 16 — Second crusade againSt. Bohemia
Chapter 17 — Brilliant successes of the Hussites
Chapter 18 — The Council of Basle
Chapter 19 — Last scenes of the Bohemian Reformation
Book 4 — Christendom at the Opening of the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 1 — Protestantism and Medievalism
Chapter 3 — The Papacy, or Christendom under the Tiara
Book 5 — History of Protestantism in Germany to the Leipsic Disputation, 1519
Chapter 1 — Luther's birth, childhood, and school-days
Chapter 2 — Luther's college life
Chapter 3 — Luther's life in the convent
Chapter 4 — Luther the monk becomes Luther the reformer
Chapter 5 — Luther as priest, professor, and preacher
Chapter 6 — Luther's journey to Rome
Chapter 8 — Tetzel preaches indulgences
Chapter 10 — Luther attacked by Tetzel, Prierio, and Eck
Chapter 11 — Luther's journey to Augsburg
Chapter 12 — Luther's appearance before cardinal Cajetan
Chapter 13 — Luther's return to Wittemberg and labours there
Chapter 14 — Miltitz - Carlstadt - Dr Eck
Chapter 15 — The Leipsic Disputation
Book 6 — From the Leipsic Disputation to the Diet at Worms, 1521
Chapter 1 — Protestantism and Imperialism; or, The Monk and the Monarch
Chapter 3 — Interviews and Negotiations
Chapter 4 — Luther summoned to the Diet at Worms
Chapter 5 — Luther's journey and arrival at Worms
Chapter 6 — Luther before the Diet at Worms
Chapter 7 — Luther put under the ban of the empire
Book 7 — Protestantism in England, From the Times of Wicliffe to Those of Henry VIII
Chapter 1 — The first Protestant martyrs in England
Chapter 2 — The theology of the early English Protestants
Chapter 3 — Growth of English Protestantism
Chapter 4 — Efforts for the redistribution of Ecclesiastical property
Chapter 5 — Trial and condemnation of Sir John Oldcastle
Chapter 6 — Lollardism denounced as treason
Chapter 7 — Martyrdom of Lord Cobham
Chapter 8 — Lollardism under Henry V and Henry VI
Chapter 9 — Rome's attempt to regain dominancy in England
Chapter 10 — Resistance to Papal encroachments
Chapter 11 — Influence of the wars of the fifteenth century on the progress of Protestantism
Book 8 — History of Protestantism in Switzerland From A.D. 1516 to Its Establishment at Zurich, 1525
Chapter 1 — Switzerland - the country and the people
Chapter 2 — Condition of Switzerland prior to the reformation
Chapter 3 — Corruption of the Swiss church
Chapter 4 — Zwingli's birth and school-days
Chapter 5 — Zwingli's progress towards emancipation
Chapter 6 — Zwingli in presence of the Bible
Chapter 7 — Einsiedeln and Zurich
Chapter 8 — The Pardon-Monger and the Plague
Chapter 9 — Extension of the reformation to Bern and other Swiss towns
Chapter 10 — Spread of Protestantish in eastern Switzerland
Chapter 11 — The question of forbidden meats
Chapter 12 — Public disputation at Zurich
Chapter 13 — Dissolution of Conventual and Monastic establishments
Chapter 14 — Discussion on images and the mass
Chapter 15 — Establishment of Protestantism in Zurich
Book 9 — History of Protestantism From the Diet of Worms, 1521, to the Augsburg Confession, 1530
Chapter 1 — The German New Testament
Chapter 2 — The abolition of the mass
Chapter 3 — Pope Adrian and his scheme of reform
Chapter 4 — Pope Clement and the Nuremberg diet
Chapter 5 — Nuremberg (this chapter is founded on notes made on the spot by the author in 1871)
Chapter 6 — The Ratisbon League and reformation
Chapter 7 — Luther's views on the sacrament and image-worship
Chapter 8 — War of the Peasants
Chapter 9 — The Battle of Pavia and its influence on Protestantism
Chapter 10 — Dietat Spires, 1526, and League against the emperor
Chapter 12 — Organization of the Lutheran Church
Chapter 13 — Constitution of the Church of Hesse
Chapter 14 — Politics and Prodigies
Chapter 15 — The Great Protest
Chapter 16 — Conference at Marburg
Chapter 17 — The Marburg Confession
Chapter 18 — The Emperor, the Turk, and the Reformation
Chapter 19 — Meeting between the Emperor and Pope at Bologna
Chapter 20 — Preparations for the Augsburg Diet
Chapter 21 — Arrival of the emperor at Augsburg and opening of the Diet
Chapter 22 — Luther in the Coburg and Melanchthon at the Diet
Chapter 23 — Reading of the Augsburg Confession
Chapter 24 — After the Diet of Augsburg
Chapter 25 — Attempted refutation of the Confession
Chapter 26 — End of the Diet of Augsburg
Chapter 27 — A retrospect - 1517-1530 - progress
Book 10 — Rise and Establishment of Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark
Chapter 2 — Fortunes of Protestantism in Italy, Spain, and Britain
Chapter 3 — Introduction of Protestantism into Sweden
Chapter 4 — Conference at Upsala
Chapter 5 — Establishment of Protestantism in Sweden
Chapter 6 — Protestantism in Sweden, from Vasa (1530) to Charles IX (1604)
Chapter 7 — Introduction of Protestantism into Denmark
Chapter 8 — Church-song in Denmark
Chapter 9 — Establishment of Protestantism in Denmark
Chapter 10 — Protestantism under Christian III, and its extension to Norway and Iceland
Chapter 1 — Zwingli - His doctrine of the Lord's Supper
Chapter 2 — Disputation at Baden and its results
Chapter 3 — Outbreak and suppression of Anabaptism in Switzerland
Chapter 4 — Establishment of Protestantism at Bern
Chapter 5 — Reformation consummated in Basle
Chapter 6 — League of the Five Cantons with Austria - Switzerland divided
Chapter 7 — Arms - Negotiations - Peace
Chapter 8 — Proposed Christian Republic for defence of civil rights
Chapter 9 — Gathering of a Second storm
Book 12 — Protestantism in Germany From the Augsburg Confession to the Peace of Passau
Chapter 1 — The Schmalkald League
Chapter 2 — The German Anabaptists, or the "Heavenly Kingdom"
Chapter 3 — Accession of Princes and states to Protestantism
Chapter 4 — Death and burial of Luther
Chapter 5 — The Schmalkald War, and Defeat of the Protestants
Chapter 6 — The "Interim" - Re-Establishment of Protestantism
Book 13 — From Rise of Protestantism in France (1510) to Publication of the Institutes (1536)
Chapter 1 — The doctor of Etaples, the first Protestant teacher in France
Chapter 2 — Tarel, Briconnet, and the early reformers of France
Chapter 3 — The first Protestant congregation of France
Chapter 4 — Commencement of persecution in France
Chapter 5 — The first martyrs of France
Chapter 6 — Calvin: His birth and education
Chapter 7 — Calvin's conversion
Chapter 8 — Calvin becomes a student of law
Chapter 9 — Calvin the evangelist, and Berquin the martyr
Chapter 10 — Calvin at Paris, and Francis negotiating with Germany and England
Chapter 11 — The Gospel preached in Paris - A Martyr
Chapter 12 — Calvin's flight from Paris
Chapter 13 — First Protestant administration of the Lord's Supper in France
Chapter 14 — Catherine de Medici
Chapter 15 — Marriage of Henry of France to Catherine de Medici
Chapter 16 — Melancthon's plan for uniting Wittemberg and Rome
Chapter 17 — Plan of Francis I for combining Lutheranism and Romanism
Chapter 18 — First disciples of the Gospel in Paris
Chapter 19 — The Night of the Placards
Chapter 20 — Martyrs and Exiles
Chapter 21 — Other and more dreadful Martyrdoms
Chapter 22 — Basle and the "Institutes"
Chapter 24 — Calvin on predestination and election
Chapter 25 — Calvin's appeal to Francis I
Book 14 — Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva
Chapter 1 — Geneva: the city and its history
Chapter 2 — Genevese martyrs of liberty
Chapter 3 — The reform commenced in Lausanne and established in Morat and Neuchatel
Chapter 4 — Tumults - Successes - Toleration
Chapter 5 — Fabel enters Geneva
Chapter 6 — Geneva on the brink of civil war
Chapter 8 — Rome falls and Geneva rises
Chapter 9 — Establishment of Protestantism in Geneva
Chapter 10 — Calvin enters Geneva - Its civil and ecclesiastical constitution
Chapter 11 — Sumptuary Laws - Calvin and Farel banished
Chapter 12 — Calvin at strasburg - Rome draws near to Geneva
Chapter 13 — Abortive conferences at Hagenau and Ratisbon
Chapter 14 — Calvin returns to Geneva
Chapter 15 — The Ecclesiastical Ordinances
Chapter 17 — Calvin's battles with the Libertines
Chapter 18 — Calvin's labors for union
Chapter 19 — Servetus comes to Geneva and is arrested
Chapter 20 — Calvin's victory over the Libertines
Chapter 21 — Apprehension and trial of Servetus
Chapter 22 — Condemnation and death of Servetus
Chapter 23 — Calvin's correspondence with martyrs, reformers, and monarchs
Chapter 24 — Calvin's manifold labors
Chapter 25 — Final victory and glory of Geneva
Chapter 26 — Geneva and its influence in Europe
Chapter 27 — The Academy of Geneva
Chapter 28 — The soclal and family life of Geneva
Chapter 29 — Calvin's last illness and death
Chapter 2 — Loyola's first disciples
Chapter 3 — Organization and training of the Jesuits
Chapter 4 — Moral code of the Jesuits - Probabilism, etc
Chapter 5 — The Jesuit teaching on regicide, murder, lying, theft, etc
Chapter 6 — The "secret instructions" of the Jesuits
Chapter 7 — Jesuit management of rich widows and the heirs of great families
Chapter 8 — Diffusion of the Jesuits throughout christendom
Chapter 9 — Commercial enterprises and banishments
Chapter 10 — Restoration of the Inquisition
Chapter 11 — The tortures of the Inquisition
Book 16 — Protestantism in the Waldensian Valleys
Chapter 1 — Antiquity and first persecutions of the Waldenses
Chapter 2 — Cataneo's Expedition (1488) against the Dauphinese and Piedmontese confessors
Chapter 3 — Failure of Cataneo's Expedition
Chapter 4 — Synod in the Waldensian Valleys
Chapter 5 — Persecutions and martyrdoms
Chapter 6 — Preparations for a War of Extermination
Chapter 7 — The Great Campaign of 1561
Chapter 8 — Waldensian colonies in Calabria and Apulia
Chapter 9 — Extinction of Waldenses in Calabria
Chapter 10 — The year of the plague
Chapter 11 — The Great Massacre
Chapter 12 — Exploits of Gianavello - Massacre and pillage of Rora
Chapter 14 — Return to the valleys
Chapter 15 — Final re-establishment in their valleys
Chapter 16 — Condition of the Waldenses from 1690
Book 17 — Protestantism in France From Death of Francis I (1547) to Edict of Nantes (1598)
Chapter 1 — Henry II and parties in France
Chapter 2 — Henry II and his persecutions
Chapter 3 — First national Synod of the French Protestant Church
Chapter 4 — A gallery of portraits
Chapter 5 — The guises, and the insurrection of Amboise
Chapter 6 — Charles IX - The Triumvirate - Colloquy at Poissy
Chapter 7 — Massacre at Vassy and commencement of the civil wars
Chapter 8 — Commencehent of the Huguenot Wars
Chapter 9 — The first Huguenot War, and death of the Duke of Guise
Chapter 11 — Second and third Huguenot Wars
Chapter 12 — Synod of la Rochelle
Chapter 13 — The promoters of the St. Bartholomew Massacre
Chapter 14 — Negotiations of the court with the Huguenots
Chapter 15 — The marriage, and preparations for the massacre
Chapter 16 — The massacre of St. Bartholomew
Chapter 17 — Resurrection of Huguenotism - Death of Charles IX
Chapter 18 — New persecutions - Reign and death of Henry III
Chapter 19 — Henry IV and the Edict of Nantes
Book 18 — History of Protestantism in the Netherlands
Chapter 1 — The Netherlands and their inhabitants
Chapter 2 — Introduction of Protestantism into the Netherlands
Chapter 3 — Antwerp: its confessors and martyrs
Chapter 4 — Abdication of Charles V and accession of Philip II
Chapter 5 — Philip arranges the government of the Netherlands, and departs for Spain
Chapter 6 — Storms in the council, and martyrs at the stake
Chapter 7 — Retirement of Granvelle - Belgic confession of faith
Chapter 9 — The confederates or "beggars"
Chapter 10 — The field-preachings
Chapter 11 — The image-breakings
Chapter 12 — Reaction - Submission of the southern Netherlands
Chapter 13 — The Council of Blood
Chapter 14 — William unfurls his standard - Execution of Egmont and Horn
Chapter 15 — Failure of William's first campaign
Chapter 16 — The "beggars of the sea," and second campaign of Orange
Chapter 17 — William's second campaign, and submission of Brabant and Flanders
Chapter 18 — The siege of Haarlem
Chapter 19 — Siege of Alkmaar, and recall of Alva
Chapter 20 — Third campaign of William, and death of Count Louis of Nassau
Chapter 21 — The siege of Leyden
Chapter 22 — March of the Spanish army through the sea - Sack of Antwerp
Chapter 23 — The "pacification of Ghent," and toleration
Chapter 24 — Administration of Don John, and first Synod of Dort
Chapter 25 — Abjuration of Philip, and rise of the Seven United Provinces
Chapter 26 — Assassination of William the silent
Chapter 27 — Order and government of the Netherland church
Chapter 28 — Disorganisation of the provinces
Chapter 29 — The Synod of Dort
Book 19 — Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia
Chapter 1 — Rise and spread of Protestantism in Poland
Chapter 2 — John Alasco, and reformation of east Friesland
Chapter 3 — Acme of Protestantism in Poland
Chapter 4 — Organisation of the Protestant church of Poland
Chapter 5 — Turning of the tide of Protestantism in Poland
Chapter 6 — The Jesuits enter Poland - Destruction of its Protestantism
Chapter 7 — Bohemia - Entrance of reformation
Chapter 8 — Overthrow of Protestantism in Bohemia
Chapter 9 — An army of martyrs
Chapter 10 — Suppression of Protestantish in Bohemia
Book 20 — Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania
Chapter 1 — Planting of Protestantism
Chapter 2 — Protestantism flourishes in hungary and Transylvania
Chapter 3 — Ferdinand II and the era of persecution
Chapter 4 — Leopold I and the Jesuits
Chapter 5 — Banishment of pastors and desolation of the church of Hungary
Book 21 — The Thirty Years' War
Chapter 1 — Great periods of the Thirty Years' War
Chapter 2 — The army and the camp
Chapter 3 — The march and its devastations
Chapter 4 — Conquest of north Germany by Ferdinand II and the "Catholic League"
Chapter 5 — Edict of Restitution
Chapter 6 — Arrival of Gustavus Adolphus in Germany
Chapter 7 — Fall of Magdeburg and victory of Leipsic
Chapter 8 — Conquest of the Rhine and Bavaria - Battle of Lutzen
Chapter 9 — Death of Gustavus Adolphus
Chapter 10 — The pacification of Westphalia
Chapter 11 — The Fatherland after the war
Book 22 — Protestantism in France From Death of Henry IV (1610) to the Revolution (1789)
Chapter 1 — Louis XIII and the Wars of Religion
Chapter 2 — Fall of la Rochelle, and end of the Wars of Religion
Chapter 3 — Industrial and literary eminence of the French Protestants
Chapter 5 — Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Chapter 6 — The prisons and the galleys
Chapter 7 — The "Church of the Desert"
Book 23 — Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII
Chapter 1 — The King and the Scholars
Chapter 2 — Cardinal Wolsey and the New Testament of Erasmus
Chapter 3 — William Tyndale and the English New Testament
Chapter 4 — Tyndale's New Testament arrives in England
Chapter 5 — The Bible and the Cellar at Oxford - Anne Boleyn
Chapter 6 — The Divorce - Thomas Bilney, the Martyr
Chapter 7 — The Divorce, and Wolsey's fall
Chapter 8 — Cranmer - Cromwell - the Papal Supremacy abolished
Chapter 9 — The King declared head of the Church of England
Chapter 10 — Scaffolds - Death of Henry VIII
Chapter 11 — The Church of England as reformed by Cranmer
Chapter 12 — Deaths of Protector Somerset and Edward VI
Chapter 13 — Restoration of the Pope's authority in england
Chapter 14 — The burnings under mary
Chapter 15 — Elizabeth - restoration of the Protestant church
Chapter 16 — Excommunication of elizabeth, and plots of the jesuits
Chapter 17 — The armada - its building
Chapter 18 — The armada arrives off england
Chapter 19 — Destruction of the armada
Chapter 20 — Greatness of Protestant england
Book 24 — Protestantism in Scotland
Chapter 1 — The darkness and the daybreak
Chapter 2 — Scotland's first preacher and martyr, Patrick Hamilton
Chapter 3 — Wishart is burned, and Knox comes forward
Chapter 4 — Knox's call to the ministry and first sermon
Chapter 5 — Knox's final return to Scotland
Chapter 6 — Establishment of the reformation in Scotland
Chapter 7 — Constitution of the "Kirk" - arrival of Mary Stuart
Chapter 8 — Knox's interview with Queen Mary
Chapter 9 — Trial of Knox for treason
Chapter 10 — The last days of Queen Mary and John Knox
Chapter 11 — Andrew Melville - the Tulchan Bishops
Chapter 12 — Battles for Presbyterianism and Liberty
Chapter 13 — James in England - the gunpowder plot
Chapter 14 — Death of James VI, and spiritual awakening in Scotland
Chapter 15 — Charles I and archbishop Laud - Religious innovations
Chapter 16 — The national covenant and assembly of 1638
Chapter 17 — Civil war - solemn league - Westminster assembly
Chapter 18 — Parliament triumphs, and the king is betrayed
Chapter 19 — Restoration of Charles II, and St. Bartholomew day, 1662
Chapter 20 — Scotland - Middleton's tyranny - act recissory
Chapter 21 — Establishment of prelacy in Scotland
Chapter 22 — Four hundred ministers ejected
Chapter 23 — Breach of the "Triple League" and war with Holland
Chapter 24 — The Popish Plot, and death of Charles II
Chapter 25 — The first rising of the Scottish Presbyterians
Chapter 26 — The field-preaching or "Conventicle"
Chapter 27 — Drumclog - Bothwell Bridge - the "killing times"
Chapter 28 — James II - Projects to restore Popery
Chapter 29 — A great crisis in England and Christendom
Chapter 30 — Protestantism mounts the throne of Great Britain
