History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.

All these works pay special attention to the Continental Reformation, but very little to that of
England and Scotland.
Neander comes down only to 1430; his lectures on modern church history (which I heard in 1840)
were never published. Gieseler’s work is most valuable for its literature down to 1852, and
extracts from the sources, but needs an entire reconstruction, which is contemplated by Prof.
Brieger at Leipzig.
(2) Jean Henri Merle d’aubigne (usually miscalled D’Aubigné, which is simply an addition indicating
the place of his ancestors, d. 1872): Histoire de la reformation du 16. siècle, Paris, 1835–’53,
5 vols., 4th ed. 1861 sqq.; and Histoire de la réformation en Europe au temps du Calvin, Par.,
1863–’78, 8 vols. (including a posthumous vol.). Also in German by Runkel (Stuttgart, 1848
sqq.), and especially in English (in several editions, some of them mutilated). Best Engl. ed.
by Longman, Green & Co., London, 1865 sqq.; best Am. ed. by Carter, New York, 1870–’79,
the first work in 5, the second in 8 vols. Merle’s History, owing to its evangelical fervor, intense
Protestantism and dramatic eloquence, has had an enormous circulation in England and America
through means of the Tract Societies and private publishers.
H. Stebbing: History of the Reformation, London, 1836, 2 vols.
G. Waddington (Anglican, d. 1869): A History of the Reformation on the Continent. London, 1841,
3 vols. (Only to the death of Luther, 1546.)
F. A. Holzhauzen: Der Protestantismus nach seiner geschichtl. Entstehung, Begründung und
Fortbildung. Leipzig, 1846–’59, 3 vols. Comes down to the Westphalian Treaty. The author
expresses his standpoint thus (III. XV.): "Die christliche Kirche ist ihrer Natur nach wesentlich
Eine, und der kirchliche Auflösungs-process, welcher durch die Reformation herbeigeführt
worden ist, kann keinen anderen Zweck haben, als ein neues höhes positives Kirchenthum
herzustellen."
B. Ter Haar (of Utrecht) Die Reformationsgeschichte in Schilderungen. Transl. from the Dutch by
C. Gross. Gotha, 5th ed. 1856, 2 vols.
Dan. Schenkel (d. 1885): Die Refomatoren und die Reformation. Wiesbaden. 1856. Das Wesen
des Protestantismus aus den Quellen des Ref. zeitalters. Schaffhausen, 1862, 3 vols.
Charles Hardwick: (Anglican, d. 1859): A History of the Christian Church during the Reformation.
Cambridge and London, 1856. Third ed. revised by W. Stubbs (bishop of Chester), 1873.
J. Tulloch: (Scotch Presbyt., d. 1886): Leaders of the Reformation: Luther, Calvin, Latimer, Knox.
Edinb., 1859; 3d ed. 1883.
L. Häusser (d. 1867): Geschichte des Zeitalters der Reformation, 1517–1648. ed. by Oncken, Berlin,
1868 (867 pages). Abridged EngI. transl. by Mrs. Sturge, N. Y., 1874.
E. L. Th. Henke (d. 1872): Neuere Kirgesch. ed. by Dr. Gass, Halle, 1874, 2 vols. The first vol.
treats of the Reformation.
Fr. Seebohm: The Era of the Protestant Revolution. London and N. York, 1874.
J. A. Wylie: History of Protestantism. London, 1875–77, 3 vols.
George P. Fisher (Prof. of Church History in Yale College): The Reformation. New York, 1873.
A comprehensive work, clear, calm, judicial, with a useful bibliographical Appendix (p.
567–591).
J. M. Lindsay (Presbyt.): The Reformation. Edinb., 1882. (A mere sketch.)