I. Luther and the Reformation
1. A European Event
2. Ideal and Actual Reformations
3. One Reformation or Many? In the Beginning Was Luther
II. European Christendom circa 1500
1. Construction of a Continent
2. Structures
3. Nations and Powers in Europe
4. The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
5. Shared Spiritual and Clerical Cultures
6. Cultural Awakenings
III. The Early Reformation in the Empire, 1517-1530
1. Thirteen Turbulent Years
2. Martin Luther: A Portrait
3. The Drop-out: A Young Augustinian Monk
4. The Exegete of Wittenberg
5. Luther's Break with the Pope
6. The Imperial Diet of Worms, Rebellion, and Upheaval
7. Zwingli and the Urban Reformation in Zurich
8. Intra-Reformation Disputes
9. Political Decisions of Church and State
IV. Post-Reformation Europe, 1530-1600
1. Language, Education, Law: Religious Culture Reformed
2. Early Reformation Movements Outside the Empire
3. John Calvin and the Reformed International
4. The Royal Reformations in Scandinavia and England
5. The Pacified, Restive Empire
6. The Transformation of Roman Catholicism
7. Dissenters and Nonconformists
8. Latin Europe after the Reformation
V. The Modern Reception of the Reformation
1. Reformation Jubilees: 1617 to 2017
2. Interpretation and Debate
VI. The Reformation and the Present: An Appraisal
1. Time Accelerated: A Change or an Apocalypse?
2. Impact on the Modern West
3. Global Protestantism