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With the aid of over sixty important sources, most of them translated and abridged by the author, this brief history brings an age of upheaval into sharp focus. It shows succinctly how a compelling ideology, the Christian faith, shaped the history of the Reformation. The religious revolution of the sixteenth century shattered an ecclesiastical structure and quickened a universal faith. The Christian heritage which the Reformation revitalized and transmitted to our time is still the source of show more Western man's ability to talk in terms of a universal justice, humanity and the rights of man. show lessTags
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Tracing the Reformation from Germany to England, Bainton provides a thorough yet concise history of Protestantism. Bainton writes a very readable and useful work, while providing resources for more in-depth study. A great introduction to the Reformation. A
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Roland Bainton (1894-1984) was for forty-two years a professor of ecclesiastical history at Yale University. He was also the author of more than thirty books on Christianity. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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- 270.6 — Religion History of Christianity History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Reformation; Counter reformation (1517-1648)
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- BR305 .B33 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christianity Christianity History By period Modern period
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