Protestantism after 500 Years

Thomas Albert Howard is Professor of History and the Humanities and Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. Mark A. Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Introduction (The Editors)

Part I: Looking Back
1 -Thomas Albert Howard, "Remembering the Reformation,
1617, 1817 and 1883: Commemoration as an Agent of Continuity and Change"
2 - John Witte, Jr., "From Gospel to Law: The Lutheran Reformation and its Impact on Legal Culture"
3 - Carlos Eire, "Redefining the Sacred and the Supernatural: How the Protestant Reformation Really Did Disenchant the World"
4 - Peter Harrison, "Protestantism and the Making of Modern Science"
5 - Karin Maag, "The Reformation and Higher Education"
6 - Brad S. Gregory, "The Reformation and Modernity: Explaining the Causal Nexus"

Part II: The Present
7 - Matthew Lundin, "Myth and History in Interpreting Protestantism: Recent Historiographical Trends"
8 - Herman J. Selderhuis, "How to Commemorate the Reformation in Post-Christian Europe"
9 - Philip Jenkins, "What hath Wittenberg to do with Lagos? Sixteenth-Century Protestantism and 'Global South' Christianity Today"
10- Sung-Deuk Oak, "Protestantism Comes East: The Case of Korea"
11 - Mark A. Noll, "Chaotic Coherence: Sola Scriptura and the Twentieth-Century Expansion of Christianity"

Part III: Theological Considerations
12 - Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, "Martin Luther at 500 and the State of Global Lutheranism"
13 - Matthew Levering, "Looking Forward by Glancing Back: Calvin and Aquinas on the Holiness of the Church"
14 - Timothy George, "The Reformation and the New Ecumenism"

Afterword by Ronald K. Rittgers