Saints, Martyrs, and the Reformation: Reflections on Robert Bartlett's Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

⁴⁵ Melanchthon, Philipp, “Loci Communes,” in Melanchthons Werke in Auswahl, ed. Stupperich, Robert (Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1951–), vol. II part I, pp. 136–137 , also 108, 265; John Calvin, Institutes III. iii. 11; xiv. 9; xv; Bucer, Martin, Résume sommaire de la doctrine Chrétienne, ed. and trans. Wendel, François (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1951), 42–43 .

⁴⁶ Althaus, Paul, The Theology of Martin Luther, trans. Schultz, Robert C. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Fortress Press, 1966), 297–303 .

⁴⁷ Calvin, Institutes III. xx. 21–27.

⁴⁸ Kroemer, James, “‘Doctor Martin, Get Up’: Luther's View of Life after Death” in On the Apocalyptic and Human Agency: Conversations with Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther, eds. Stjerna, Kirsi and Thompson, Deanna A. (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 33–50 . On the subject more broadly, see for example Burns, Norman T., Christian Mortalism from Tyndale to Milton (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972).

⁴⁹ For both sides of the debate see Nider's, Johannes Formicarius, bk. 4 ch. 2, in Johannis Nideri theologi olim clarissimi de visionibus ac revelationibus: opus rarissimum historiis Germaniæ refertissimum, anno 1517, Argentinæ editum (Helmstedt, 1692), 414–424 .

⁵⁰ See MacCulloch, Diarmaid, “Bullinger and the English-Speaking World” in Heinrich Bullinger: Life – Thought – Influence, eds. Campi, Emidio and Opitz, Peter (Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2007), ii, 891–934 .

⁵¹ Heinrich Bullinger, De Origine Erroris Libri Duo . . . In priore agitur de Dei veri iusta invocatione et culto vero, de Deorum item falsorum religionibus et simulachrorum cultu erroneo. In posteroiore disseritur de Institutione et vi sacrae Coenae domini, et de origine et progressu Missae Papisticae, contra varias superstitiones pro religione vera antiqua et orthodoxa (Zurich: Froschauer, 1539).

⁵² De Origine Erroris, chs. 1–6, 8–12.

⁵³ Ibid., ch. 14, fo. 59v.

⁵⁴ Ibid., chs. 15–17.

⁵⁵ Ibid., ch. 24, fos. 116v–117r.

⁵⁶ Ibid., chs. 25–26.

⁵⁷ Bartlett, Why can the Dead Do Such Great Things?, 609–618, and compare Brown, Peter, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), xvi–xvii, 20–22 .

⁵⁸ Erasmus, Desiderius, The Praise of Folly, trans. with commentary by Miller, Clarence H. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979), 63–64 .

⁵⁹ Erasmus, Desiderius, Colloquies, ed. and trans. Thompson, Craig R. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 351–367, and esp. 355.

⁶⁰ De Origine Erroris, ch. 34, fo. 164r: “Comparison between the pagan gods and the Christian saints, to both of which care of the elements, animals, diseases, arts, and finally all aspects of people are thought to be entrusted.”

⁶¹ Ibid., ch. 35, fos. 167v–172r.

⁶² Illyricus, Matthias Flacius, Catalogus testium Veritatis, Qui ante nostram aetatem reclamarunt Papae (Basel: per Ioannem Oporinum, 1556). On this subject see also Cameron, Euan, “Medieval Heretics as Protestant Martyrs,” in Martyrs and Martyrologies: Papers read at the 1992 Summer Meeting and the 1993 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, ed. Wood, Diana, Studies in Church History, vol. 30 (Oxford: Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by Blackwell Publishers, 1993),185–207 .

⁶³ King, John N., Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 112–113 .

⁶⁴ Bullinger, De Origine Erroris, fo. 114r.

⁶⁵ Beza, Theodore, Icones, id est verae imagines virorum doctrina simul et pietate illustrium (Geneuae: apud I. Laonium, 1580).

⁶⁶ See https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-worship/worship/texts/the-calendar/holydays.aspx, accessed June 28, 2016. Thomas More is commemorated on 6 July, William Tyndale on 6 October. Tyndale, it should be said, is awarded a festival; More receives only a commemoration.