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The book by the renowned Oxford historian and theologian Alistair McGrath examines the intellectual origins of the two main movements of the Reformation - Lutheran and Reformed. How can we explain the religious ideas of the first generation of leading reformers, especially Luther and Zwingli? What factors, intellectual and social, called them to life? Should we not speak of "intellectual origins of the Reformation" in the plural? What is the relationship between the Reformation and the Renaissance? Was the Reformation just one aspect of the Renaissance, or did it have a special significance in terms of its subject matter, background, sources, or methods? The search for the intellectual roots of the Reformation, the author argues, requires a detailed analysis of the continuities and discontinuities between these two epochs in the history of thought and poses extremely important questions for the historian of ideas and theologian.

The book is intended for specialists in history, literature and theology.