Welcome to the Protestant Reformation course website (RELS-365, Fall 2010, with Rein)

Current assignment:

For Tuesday, Dec. 7, please read Calvin's "Reply to Sadoleto." It's a little long, so start early.

Ongoing: please also post a question about the readings. Instructions are here.

Other links:

• Online version of the syllabus
• Student information form (please complete this if you haven't yet)
• How to get assignment updates using your phone (this is neat)
• Schedule of in-class presentations 

"The Seven-Headed Papal Beast"

For Thursday, Dec. 2, please read Calvin's preface to the Psalms, in which he gives a short account of his own career.

For Tuesday, Nov. 16: For this week, in addition to the textbook readings, please also read this eyewitness account of Luther's confrontation with Karlstadt's followers in 1524.

For Thursday, Nov. 11:  For this week: read short descriptions of the Marburg Colloquy by Zwingli and Luther here. Zwingli's On True and False Religion can be downloaded from this link (as a PDF).

For Tuesday, Nov. 9:  Download Luther's Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants and Müntzer's Sermon before the Princes in PDF format. Please also note that I've updated the syllabus to reflect some changed dates.

For Thursday, Nov. 4: Download Luther's To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) in PDF format. 

For Tuesday, Oct. 21: On the Freedom of the Will in PDF format.

For Thursday, Oct. 14: Linkage: Cajetan's "On Faith and Works" and Luther's "Two Kinds of Righteousness".

For Tuesday, Oct. 12: Dillenberger readings can be downloaded by clicking here.

For Thursday, Oct. 7: The reading assignment for Thursday (10/7) can be downloaded (in PDF format) by clicking this link.

For Tuesday, Oct. 5: The first paper is due Tuesday. The assignment is here.

For Thursday, Sept. 30

This week's online materials:

• Luther's account of the debate in Leipzig with Eck
• Papal bulls condemning Luther (Exsurge Domine and Decet Romanum)
• Luther's answer before the Diet of Worms
• Humanist and popular reactions to Luther

For Thursday, Sept. 23

This week's reading:

• Myconius's account of indulgence-selling
• Papal bulls on indulgences: Salvator noster and Unigenitus
• The Ninety-Five Theses (complete)
• Luther's letter to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz

For Tuesday, Sept. 21

• Luther's memory of the Reformation
• Excerpt from Johann Kessler's Sabbata (this is the same as the short handout I gave you on Thursday)

For Tuesday, Sept. 14

• Erasmus, Encomium Moriae (The Praise of Folly), excerpts
• Ulrich von Hutten, letter to Elector Frederick of Saxony
• "Ducat Man"

For Thursday, Sept. 9:

This week's reading:

• Dietrich Kolde, Speculum Christiani ("The Mirror of a Christian") (excerpts)
• Thomas à Kempis, Imitatio Christi ("The Imitation of Christ") (excerpts)

Your assignment for Tuesday, Sept. 7: 

• Read Lindberg, ch. 2
• In The European Reformations Sourcebook, read selections 1.1-1.17
• On this site, read selections from the Carmina Burana and the Papal bulls Clericis laicos and Unam Sanctam.
• Take a look at these artworks at the Philadelphia Museum website. 
  

That's it!

We will meet Sunday, Sept. 5, at one p.m. by the giant smokestack near the mailroom, in the parking lot next to BPS, for our exciting trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Wear comfortable shoes.

For Thursday, Sept. 2:

Read Lindberg, chapter 1.

Read Luther's "autobiographical fragment" (click).

Fill out the "student information form" (click).

Read the syllabus and see if you have any questions.

Optional: read Hillerbrand's introduction.