Dr. Willborn’s Selected Reformation Reading List
John Calvin
Beza, Theodore, The Life of Calvin (Beza was a contemporary and successor in Geneva).
Gerstner, Edna. Idelette (Soli Deo Gloria, 1997).
*Gordon, Bruce. Calvin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009.
Horton, Michael. Calvin on the Christian Life. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016.
Parker, T. H. L. John Calvin: A Biography. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2006 (1975).
Wallace, Ronald. Calvin, Geneva, and the Reformation. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1998.
Martin Luther
*Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1950.
Kroker, Ernst. The Mother of the Reformation: The Amazing Life and Story of Katharine
Luther. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2013.
Markwald, Rudolph and Marilynn Markwald. Katharina Von Bora: A Reformation Life. St.
Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2002.
Marty, Martin. Martin Luther: A Life. New York: Penguin Group, 2004.
Oberman, Heiko. Luther: Man Between God and the Devil. New York: Image Book/Doubleday, 1989.
Trueman, Carl. Luther on the Christian Life. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015.
*Tucker, Ruth. Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2017.
The Reformation
*Bainton, Roland and Jaroslav Pelikan. The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985.
*Chadwick, Owen. The Reformation. NY/London: Penguin Books, 1990.
Dickens, A. G. The English Reformation. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1989.
Knox, John. The History of the Reformation in Scotland. Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2010.
MacCulloch, Dairmaid. The Reformation: A History. New York: Penguin Group, 2004.
Oberman, Heiko. The Dawn of the Reformation. Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans, 1992.
*_____. The Reformation: Roots and Ramifications. London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2004.
Ozment, Steven. Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution. NY: Doubleday, 1993.
*represents my first choice for readers.