The History of Protestantism (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. ALL 24 BooksBy James Aitken Wylie
Length131h 23m
About this audiobook
James Aitken Wylie's The History of Protestantism is a sweeping Victorian account of the rise, trials, and diffusion of Protestant Christianity, from its medieval forerunners through the Reformation and beyond. Written in a grand, rhetorical style, it combines narrative history, theological interpretation, and moral drama, presenting Protestantism as a providential movement toward spiritual liberty. Its literary context is unmistakably nineteenth-century: expansive, polemical, richly allusive, and confident in the historian's role as interpreter of religious destiny. Wylie, a Scottish Presbyterian minister, journalist, and historian, wrote from within the intellectual and ecclesiastical world of evangelical Protestantism. His career, including editorial work for Protestant periodicals and deep engagement with Reformation history, shaped his conviction that religious history was inseparable from the struggle for conscience, Scripture, and civic freedom. His commitments give the book both its vigor and its confessional perspective. This work is recommended to readers interested in Reformation studies, Protestant identity, and Victorian religious historiography. Though modern readers should approach its judgments critically, Wylie's narrative remains powerful, learned, and historically revealing.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length131 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2PREFACE
3BOOK FIRST PROGRESS FROM THE FIRST TO THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
4CHAPTER 1 PROTESTANTISM
5CHAPTER 2 DECLENSION OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
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6CHAPTER 3 DEVELOPMENT OF THE PAPACY FROM THE TIMES OF CONSTANTINE TO THOSE OF HILDEBRAND
7CHAPTER 4 DEVELOPMENT OF THE PAPACY FROM GREGORY VII. TO BONIFACE VIII
8CHAPTER 5 MEDIAEVAL PROTESTANT WITNESSES
9CHAPTER 6 THE WALDENSES — THEIR VALLEYS
10CHAPTER 7 THE WALDENSES — THEIR MISSIONS AND MARTYRDOMS
11CHAPTER 8 THE PAULICIANS
12CHAPTER 9 CRUSADES AGAINST THE ALBIGENSES
13CHAPTER 10 ERECTION OF TRIBUNAL OF INQUISITION
14CHAPTER 11 PROTESTANTS BEFORE PROTESTANTISM
15CHAPTER 12 ABELARD, AND RISE OF MODERN SKEPTICISM
16BOOK SECOND WICLIFFE AND HIS TIMES, OR ADVENT OF PROTESTANTISM
17CHAPTER 1 WICLIFFE: HIS BIRTH AND EDUCATION
18CHAPTER 2 WICLIFFE, AND THE POPE'S ENCROACHMENTS ON ENGLAND
19CHAPTER 3 WICLIFFE'S BATTLE WITH ROME FOR ENGLAND'S INDEPENDENCE
20CHAPTER 4 WICLIFFE'S BATTLE WITH THE MENDICANT FRIARS
21CHAPTER 5 THE FRIARS VERSUS THE GOSPEL IN ENGLAND
22CHAPTER 6 THE BATTLE OF THE PARLIAMENT WITH THE POPE
23CHAPTER 7 PERSECUTION OF WICLIFFE BY THE POPE AND THE HIERARCHY
24CHAPTER 8 HIERARCHICAL PERSECUTION OF WICLIFFE RESUMED
25CHAPTER 9 WICLIFFE'S VIEWS ON CHURCH PROPERTY AND CHURCH REFORM
26CHAPTER 10 THE TRANSLATION OF THE SCRIPTURES, OR THE ENGLISH BIBLE
27CHAPTER 11 WICLIFFE AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION
28CHAPTER 12 WICLIFFE'S APPEAL TO PARLIAMENT
29CHAPTER 13 WICLIFFE BEFORE CONVOCATION IN PERSON, AND BEFORE THE ROMAN CURIA BY LETTER
30CHAPTER 14 WICLIFFE'S LAST DAYS
31CHAPTER 15 WICLIFFE'S THEOLOGICAL AND CHURCH SYSTEM
32BOOK THIRD JOHN HUSS AND THE HUSSITE WARS
33CHAPTER 1 BIRTH, EDUCATION, AND FIRST LABOURS OF HUSS
34CHAPTER 2 HUSS BEGINS HIS WARFARE AGAINST ROME
35CHAPTER 3 GROWING OPPOSITION OF HUSS TO ROME
36CHAPTER 4 PREPARATIONS FOR THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE
37CHAPTER 5 DEPOSITION OF THE RIVAL POPES
38CHAPTER 6 IMPRISONMENT AND EXAMINATION OF HUSS
39CHAPTER 7 CONDEMNATION AND MARTYRDOM OF HUSS
40CHAPTER 8 WICLIFFE AND HUSS COMPARED IN THEIR THEOLOGY, THEIR CHARACTER, AND THEIR LABOURS
41CHAPTER 9 TRIAL AND TEMPTATION OF JEROME
42CHAPTER 10 THE TRIAL OF JEROME
43CHAPTER 11 CONDEMNATION AND BURNING OF JEROME
44CHAPTER 12 WICLIFFE, HUSS, AND JEROME, OR THE FIRST THREE WITNESSES OF MODERN CHRISTENDOM
45CHAPTER 13 THE HUSSITE WARS
46CHAPTER 14 COMMENCEMENT OF THE HUSSITE WARS
47CHAPTER 15 MARVELLOUS GENIUS OF ZISKA AS A GENERAL
48CHAPTER 16 SECOND CRUSADE AGAINST BOHEMIA
49CHAPTER 17 BRILLIANT SUCCESSES OF THE HUSSITES
50CHAPTER 18 THE COUNCIL OF BASLE
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