A History of The Reformation Volumes 1 and 2 Cloth hardcovers - 1925

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Cloth Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. V. 1. The Reformation in Germany from its Beginning to the Religious Peace of Augsburg. 1926 V. 2. The Reformation in Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Scotland and England, the Anabaptists and Socinian Movements, the Counter-reformation. 1925 Blue publisher's cloth with stamped gilt spine titles and blind-stamped series title on front boards. 8.25 inches tall; vii-527 ; vii-631 pages with publishers adverts following in each volume. Includes bibliographical references and indexes The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with presentation plate from The Hartford Theological Seminary on front paste-downs. Moderate shelf handling wear. A color folded map of the reformation and Counter-Reformation in sleeve in the rear paste-down of volume 2 measuring 19.5 by 17.5 inches. The map has even age-toning with darkening on one of the folds on the rear blank side. Topics: Anabaptists, Reformation, Socinianism, Counter-Reformation, Christian Church, Christianity, Protestant . First published in 1907-08, this 2-volume history of the Reformation has been written with the intention of describing a great religious movement amid its social environment. A History of the Reformation, in the author's opinion, must describe five distinct but related things the social and religious conditions of the age out of which the great movement came; the Lutheran Reformation down to 1555, when it received legal recognition; the Reformation in countries beyond Germany which did not submit to the guidance of Luther; the issue of certain portions of the religious life of the Middle Ages in Anabaptism, Socinianism, and Anti-Trinitarianism; and, finally, the Counter-Reformation. The first volume describes the eve of the Reformation and the movement itself under the guidance of Luther