375 pages ; 22 cm

"Always Reforming highlights the fact that in the modern era the notion of heresy has fallen apart. Every church has been declared heretical at some time or other by another church, and it is not the role of the historian to decide who is right or wrong on doctrinal issues. Christians have adapted to sweeping social changes, including scientific discoveries and changing world-views." "This volume attempts to uncover some of the hidden dynamics of faith within the many ways in which other Christians have tried to live out the gospel in an uncertain world. It also demonstrates that all human institutions, including churches, change over time."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-362) and index

pt. 1. Renaissance and Reform: 1300-1500 -- Ch. 1. The Character of the Medieval Church -- Ch. 2. The Fourteenth Century Papacy -- Ch. 3. The Modern Way in Theology -- Ch. 4. Mysticism and Piety in the Late Middle Ages -- Ch. 5. Radical Reformers -- Ch. 6. Christianity in the East -- Ch. 7. The Spanish Reformation -- Ch. 8. Renaissance Humanism -- pt. 2. The Protestant Reformation -- Ch. 9. The Reformation in Germany -- Ch. 10. The Swiss Reformation -- Ch. 11. The Radical Reformation -- Ch. 12. The Spread of the Reformation and the Wars of Religion -- Ch. 13. The Reformation in England -- Ch. 14. The Catholic and Counter-Reformations -- Ch. 15. The Final Wars of Religion -- pt. 3. Religion of the Heart in the Age of Reason -- Ch. 16. Creating a Christian Society in the Old World and the New -- Ch. 17. The Enlightenment -- Ch. 18. Religion of the Heart -- Ch. 19. Methodism and the Great Awakening -- pt. 4. The Nineteenth Century -- Ch. 20. Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Nationalism -- Ch. 21. Nineteenth-Century American Evangelicalism -- Ch. 22. Liberalism -- Ch. 23. Radical Changes: New Sects and Secularism -- Ch. 24. Missions to the World -- pt. 5. The Twentieth Century -- Ch. 25. Christianity and Two World Wars -- Ch. 26. Modernism, Ecumenism, and Fundamentalism -- Ch. 27. Vatican II and the Modern Catholic Church -- Conclusion: A New World Order?

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