Great Voices of the Reformation: An Anthology (Modern Library Giant G9) by Fosdick, Harry Emerson - 1952

New York: The Modern Library, 1952. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8x5x1. 1963-67 printing, Toledano G009.3, G6 binding. Lacks jacket. Ink underlining and marginalia, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1952 Hard Cover. xxx, 546 pp. This anthology endeavors to present, within the limits of a single volume, the major emphases of Protestant thought from John Wycliffe to John Wesley. The term "Protestant" -for a brief discussion of which the reader may turn to the Epilogue-originated long after Wycliffe, and by Wesley's time had far outgrown its first meaning, but no other word is now available to connote the entire movement of thought and life which led up to and followed the dissevering of Christendom in the sixteenth century. The negative significance of the word in present usage, however, is unfortunate, for, as this anthology should make evident, while the Reformation certainly involved protest against Roman Catholicism, it was at heart an affirmation, a vigorous protestation of positive principles.