Resources on Reformation

(1) Audio Resources

Sixteenth-Century Reformation

• Lessons from the Reformation for Today   (II Timothy 3:1-4:8)
• The Reformation’s Teaching on the Church   (I Timothy 3:12-4:6)
• The Reformation’s Emphasis on Piety   (Isaiah 1) – Prof. Herman Hanko
• Music’s Indispensable Place in (the) Reformation   (Colossians 3:16) – Prof. Barry Gritters

Specific Reformers

• Martin Luther and the Bondage of the Will
• Martin Luther and God’s Saving Righteousness  (Rom. 4:1-13)
• Martin Luther: Theologian of the Glory of God  (Rom. 3:19-31) – Prof. Engelsma
• Martin and Katie Luther: The Reformation of Marriage
• John Calvin’s Battle for the Reformation (I) – His Influence and Early Life
• John Calvin’s Battle for the Reformation (II) – The Geneva Years
• Calvin on Justification: Considering the Judgment Day With Singular Delight
• Calvin Versus Darwin: Anniversaries, Origins and Worldviews
• Calvin Versus Pighius

Reformed Creeds

• The Synod of Dordt  (Ephesians 1)
• A Plea for Creeds  (I Timothy 3:15-16)

Sermons

• The Reformation in Ophrah  (Judges 6:25-32)
• The Believer’s Responsibility for the Preaching  (Colossians 4:17)

(2) Written Resources

Specific Reformers

• The Church in Wycliffe’s Day
• Luther’s The Bondage of the Will Versus Erasmus’ On the Freedom of the Will
• Heinrich Bullinger, the First Covenant Theologian

John Calvin

• Calvin’s Institutes: A Comparison Between the 1536 and 1559 Editions
• Calvin Versus Sadolet
• John Calvin’s Integrated Covenant Theology (1): The Unity of the Covenant
• John Calvin’s Integrated Covenant Theology (2): The Nature of the Covenant
• John Calvin’s Integrated Covenant Theology (3): The Blessings of the Covenant

Reformed Creeds

• A Plea for Creeds  (Italian)
• The Three Forms of Unity  (various)

Reformed Faith

• What Is the Reformed Faith?  (Cebuano) (Czech) (German) (Greek) (Hungarian) (Italian) (Polish) (Portuguese) (Russian) (Spanish)
• What It Means to Be Reformed  (German) (Polish) (Portuguese) (Russian)

Calvinism

• A Defense of Calvinism as the Gospel  (French) (Italian) (Russian) (Tagalog)
• Calvinism … the Truth (Arminianism, the Lie)  (Italian)
• TULIP: The Five Points of Calvinism  (Chinese) (Italian) (Spanish) (Tagalog) (Ukrainian)

Reformed Worship

• The Reformation, a Return to the Primacy of Preaching  (Italian)
• Heidelberg Catechism Preaching, our Reformed Heritage
• Public Worship and the Reformed Faith

Reformed Psalm-Singing

• John Calvin on the Wonder of the Psalms  (Portuguese)
• Singing Psalms in Church (John Calvin)
• The Rage for the Psalter in France
• The Westminster Assembly and Psalm Singing
• A Puritan Preface to the Scottish Metrical Psalter
• Psalm Singing, a Reformed Heritage

Church Reformation

• The Reformation and Twentieth Century Protestantism  (Portuguese)
• The Church Today and the Reformation Church, a Comparison  (Italian) (Polish) (Portuguese) (Swedish)
• Faith of Our Fathers Living Still  (Croatian) (Polish)
• A.D. 2000: Year of Jubilee by Papal Indulgence or Reformation Gospel?
• The Coming of Elijah

Reformation or Revival?

• Ought the Church to Pray for Revival?
• Reformation or Revival: What Does the Church Need?  (Hungarian)(Portuguese) (Spanish) 
• The “Great Awakening” – Was It?
• The Revival of 1859 – a critique of the 1859 Revival in Ulster in the light of Scripture and the Westminster Standards  (William Hamilton)

(3) Books

Reformation History

• Portraits of Faithful Saints – Herman Hanko
• The Sixteenth-Century Reformation of the Church  – ed. David Engelsma
• Always Reforming – ed. David Engelsma

Reformed Creeds

• The Confessions and Church Order of the PRC  – Reformed Fathers
• The Triple Knowledge  – Herman Hoeksema
• The Voice of Our Fathers  – Homer C. Hoeksema

Calvinism

• Calvin’s Calvinism – John Calvin
• Absolute Predestination – Jerome Zanchius
• Saved by Grace – Ron Hanko and Ron Cammenga
• The Five Points of Calvinism – David Engelsma and Herman Hanko
• Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel – David Engelsma
• Modern Moderate Calvinism – A. I. Morgan

(4) Related Resource Pages

• Calvin Resources
• Calvinism Resources
• Covenant and Baptism Resources
• Church Office and Feminism Resources
• Psalm-Singing Resources

(5) Off-Site Resources

Special Reformation issues of the Standard Bearer

• Rome’s Present Dangers (2008; vol. 85, issue 2)
• The Secession of 1834 (2007; vol. 84, issue 2)
• The Reformation in the Netherlands (2006; vol. 83, issue 2)
• John Wycliffe (2005; vol. 82, issue 2)
• The Reformation’s Doctrine of Man (2004; vol. 81, issue 2)
• John Calvin (2003; vol. 80, issue 2)
• The Reformation and the Holy Life (2002; vol. 79, issue 2)
• Martin Luther (2001; vol. 78, issue 2)
• John Knox (2000; vol. 77, issue 2)
• The Reformation and the Last Things (1999; vol. 76, issue 2)
• Abraham Kuyper and the Reformation of 1886 (1998; vol. 75, issue 2)
• The Synod of Dordt (1997; vol. 74, issue 2)
• 1953: Continuing Reformation (1996; vol. 73, issue 2)
• The Reformation of 1924 (1995; vol. 72, issue 2)
• The Reformation and Worship (1994; vol. 71, issue 2)
• The Reformation and Scripture (1993; vol. 70, issue 2)
• The Reformation and Freedom (1992; vol. 69, issue 2)
• The Anabaptist Controversy (1991; vol. 68, issue 2)
• The Reformed Conflict with Rome (1990; vol. 67, issue 2)

Reformed Creeds

• Belgic Confession (1561)
• Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
• Canons of Dordt (1618-1619)