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Roland Bainton
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
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Roland H Bainton
Bainton presents the many strands that made up the Reformation in a single, brilliantly coherent account. He discusses the background for Luther’s irreparable breach with the Church and its ramifications…
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This biography of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German theologian and religious reformer, provides a detailed look at his role in the Protestant Reformation. Bainton argues that Luther's struggle to reform…
In 30 compelling Christmas excerpts from his sermons, Martin Luther vividly portrays the human realism of the Nativity. Throughout, Luther reminds readers that keeping Christmas is a year-round mission of…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Roland H. Bainton
A comprehensive, critical portrait of Christianity from its beginning 2000 years ago to the present day. Bainton offers a rich history of a vast and varied congregation, united by a…
Any scholarship that addresses the evolution of Christian perspectives on warfare generally references this book. first published in 1960. Although the scholarship of this work is now outdated and critiqued…
Originally published: New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1950.
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Having devoted my life to the study of history, I am prompted in my latter days to ask whether one can make sense of it all. –from the Introduction In…
A vivid portrait of Martin Luther, the man of unshakable faith in God who helped bring about the Protestant Reformation.
Available for the first time in trade paperback, this authoritative biography of the great religious leader was hailed by Time magazine as the most readable Luther biography in English…
In this first installment in celebrated historian Roland Bainton’s Women of the Reformation trilogy, sixteen women who are usually lost behind familiar Reformation figures and events come to life. Extensively…
Marguerite of Navarre, Jeanne d'Albret, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr, and Elizabeth I - these are a few of the courageous women who used their political influence to promote religious…
Hermann Doerries
In the Rome of Constantine whether one worshipped the old gods or the new God was literally a question of life and death. In this book, the latest in the…
