Released in the UK May 2019
Released in the US May 2019
Trade paperback | 144 Pages
9781527103337 • £7.99 $9.99
BISAC – REL108020
The Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century regained, retold, and relied on the gospel of grace — and we can learn from their tragedies and triumphs, their dark deeds and noble heroics. The stories of Ulrich Zwingli, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Thomas Cranmer remind us of the glorious truths which warmed the hearts and fired the souls of passionate and imperfect people, and how they tried to share the good news of Jesus Christ in their generation. Will it strengthen and inspire passionate and imperfect Christians today to emulate their clarity, their courage, and their compassion for the lost?
Lee Gatiss
Dr. Lee Gatiss is the Director of Church Society, Editor of the NIV Proclamation Bible, and a Lecturer in Church History at Union School of Theology. He lives in Cambridge, UK.
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… historically informed, accessibly readable, and relevantly applied. A great service for the church and beyond.
Adriaan Neele
Research scholar, associate editor and director of the Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University
Lee shows not only how these Reformers faced their own contexts of darkness but also applies the regained principles to our modern contexts … Overall Lee takes us, as the Reformers did, back to God’s authority as described in the Scriptures.
Andy Lines
Missionary Bishop for Europe, Anglican Church in North America
With realism, clarity, and his characteristic twinkle, Lee Gatiss shows just how profoundly and practically relevant the stories and issues of the Reformation remain today. Our churches will be more healthy and fruitful if they can learn these lessons.
Michael Reeves
President and Professor of Theology, Union School of Theology, Bridgend, Wales
This is a fabulous recounting of the lives of five key figures of the European Reformation. It is a recounting that also reveals that if these lives had not been lived, western history and the story of the Church would be completely different. This is usable history at its best.
Michael A. G. Haykin
Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky