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2000 Years of Christ's Power: Volume 3 : Renaissance and Reformation : 16th century
Outline: 2,000 Years of Christ's Power is a multiple volume series on the history of the church. Academically reliable, but written with an easy, even humorous style which makes it accessible to anybody with an interest, this work falls into a category all of its own. The Renaissance was a reaction against the attitude of the Middle Ages. And the Reformation was the passionate, divisive argument that grew out of it. Bread and wine, or body and blood ... infants or adults ... faith alone or partial works? Catholics, Calvinists, Lutherans, Anabaptists - our present-day divisions were the controversial front-page headlines of the Reformation. Nick Needham, in this third volume of 2,000 Years of Christ's Power, does not attempt to somehow patch up the divisions of the church today. Rather, in showing the progression of the Reformation era, and the daring bravery of its figures, he presents a period of history from which we have much to learn - one of the most important of these lessons being the vibrancy of people's lives and the courage with which they faced death.
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