Spirituality and Reform

Calvin Lane is affiliate professor of church history at Nashotah House Theological Seminary.

• Introduction: Spirituality & Reform1.The Spiritual Landscape: The Mass in the Middle Ages2.The Spiritual Landscape: Mediating the Holy in the Middle Ages3.The Spirituality of High Medieval Reform Movements: Popes & Monks4.Medieval Mysticism & Reform5.The Spirituality of Late Medieval Reform Movements: Pushing the Boundaries6.Sixteenth-Century Reformations: The Sacraments7.Sixteenth-Century Reformations: Preaching, Sacred Space, & Music8.Sixteenth-Century Reformations: Pastoral Care & the Life Cycle9.Sixteenth-Century Reformations: Early Modern Catholicism10.Spirituality & the Encounter: Opportunities for a Primitive Church11.Spirituality & the Bloody Theater: Martyrdom in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity12.Religions of the Heart: New Movements of the Seventeenth & Eighteenth CenturiesConclusion: Post Tenebras Lux?Appendix 1: TimelineAppendix 2: Shortlist of Primary Sources in English

In Spirituality and Reform, Calvin Lane has accomplished two goals. Lane has synthesized and explained dozens of theological movements stretching from the Gregorian reforms of the eleventh century to the Moravians and Pietists of the 1700's and he has challenged the artificial boundaries that scholars use to separate historical periods. His book unites the waves of theological reform rocking Latin Christendom. Lane has written a solid book to explain and emphasize the constantly evolving and consistent nature of Christian theology in pre-modern Europe.