The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation

The sixteenth-century Reformation remains a fascinating andexciting area of study. The revised edition of this distinguishedvolume explores the intellectual origins of the Reformation andexamines the importance of ideas in the shaping of history.

• Provides an updated and expanded version of the original, highly-acclaimed edition.
  
• Explores the complex intellectual roots of the Reformation, offering a sustained engagement with the ideas of humanism andscholasticism.
  
• Demonstrates how the intellectual origins of the Reformationwere heterogeneous, and examines the implications of this for ourunderstanding of the Reformation as a whole.
  
• Offers a defence of the entire enterprise of intellectualhistory, and a reaffirmation of the importance of ideas to thedevelopment of history.
  
• Written by Alister E. McGrath, one of today's best-knownChristian writers.