Contents -- NOTE FOR THE READER -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Prologue -- 1 THE REFORMATION AND LITERARY CULTURE -- I: Grammatical Culture: Medieval to Renaissance -- II: Words and Things: Montaigne on Language -- III: The Textuality of the Ninety-Five Theses -- IV: Letter and Spirit: Luther's 1520 Pamphlets and More's Responsio -- V: The Gift of Language -- Part One: Humanism and Theology in Northern Europe 1512-1527 -- 2 THE REFORMATION OF THE READER -- I: Narratives of Conversion -- II: Luther the Reader -- III: From Luther to Augustine -- IV: Grammatica Theologica: Lectures on Psalms and Romans -- V: Justifying God -- 3 NEW GRAMMAR AND NEW THEOLOGY -- I: Erasmus's Novum Instrumentum and the New Grammar -- II: Erasmus and the Schools -- III: Scholastic Luther or Humanist Luther? -- IV: Humanism and the Modi Significandi -- V: Speech Acts: Solecisms and Felicities -- 4 ERASMUS CONTRA LUTHER -- I: The Politics of Interpretation -- II: The Proof-Text: Erasmus and Luther on Ecclesiasticus 15 -- III: Imperative versus Indicative -- IV: The Theologian and the Grammarian -- V: The Potter and the Clay -- Part Two: The English Language and the English Reformations 1521-1603 -- 5 VERNACULAR THEOLOGY -- I: Different Tongues: More versus Tyndale -- II: The Fall of Language -- III: Englishing Grammar -- IV: Theology Wars: The Reign of Henry VIII -- V: Wyatt's Writing Lesson: The Penitentiall Psalms -- 6 PROTESTANT CULTURE -- I: Cultural Reformation: Bucer in England -- II: Calvin's Commentaries -- III: The Logic of Calvinism -- IV: Original Defection: Sidney's Defence of Poesie -- V: Literature Anti-Literature -- Part Three: Literature and the English Reformations 1580-1640 -- 7 CALVINIST AND ANTI-CALVINIST -- I: English Calvinist Culture -- II: Predestination and Certainty: The Lambeth Articles.

III: Fulke Greville's Beliefs: The Confidence of the Flesh -- IV: Purloined Letters: Andrewes, Hooker, Herbert, and Anti-Calvinism -- V: Herbert's The Temple: Grace and the Gift -- 8 RECUSANT POETRY -- I: Robert Southwell's Tears -- II: Repentance and Justification at the Council of Trent -- III: Confessional Poetry -- IV: Conditions of Grace: Saint Peters Complaint -- 9 GOD'S GRAMMAR -- I: Donne's Conversions -- II: Campion's Brag and Campion's Bloody Reasons -- III: The Noise of the Holy Sonnets -- IV: Donne's Dangerous Question -- V: Shall Be, That Is, May Be -- Epilogue -- 10 REVOLUTIONARY ENGLISH -- I: The Necessary Fall -- II: Milton's English -- III: Language and Error -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.