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- Data di uscita: 01-01-2000
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A well-written general survey of the Reformation in Europe suited for the college level novice in the area. I myself didn't read this book until I took the 'Medieval and Reformation Christianity' class with David Lotz at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. Although Norwegian, therefore osten Leggi tutto
This is superb storytelling and a good synthesis of most important intellectual matters on the Reformation. It’s an old book. It does have more storytelling than intellectual discussions, but reading a good entertaining narrative while facing some two or three lines of the most important intellectua Leggi tutto
Succint but complete narrative of the Reformation period. The only bad thing I can say is that language was archaic enough that I had to reread a sentence every now and then.
This is a good popular history with no little heft. It is unusually concerned with Anabaptist and radical reformations, in a way that most historians are not. It reminds me that most are interested in studying the success stories. Bainton is also good at drawing general conclusions by standing back
This makes a decent companion to Bainton's Here I Stand. He sometimes paints things in overly broad strokes but on the whole it's fair to the various Reformation bodies which arose from the events of the 16th century.
A very well organized introductory survey of the Reformation and the origins of the Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Baptist denominations. Good for any survey course on church history. Would recommend for undergraduates or others wanting to learn more.
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