2000 Years of Christ's Power Vol 3 (Hardback) by Nick Needham

2000 Years of Christ's Power Vol 3

Renaissance and Reformation

2000 Years of Christ's Power Vol 3

Renaissance and Reformation

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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. Catholics, Calvinists, Lutherans, Anabaptists – our present–day divisions were the front–page headlines of the Reformation. Volume three of 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, in showing the progression of the Reformation era, and the daring bravery of its figures, presents a period of history from which there are many lessons to be learnt – not least of all, the vibrancy of people’s lives and the courage with which they faced death.

Title

2000 Years of Christ's Power Vol 3
Author(s)

Nick Needham
Series

2000 years
ISBN

9781781917800
Format

Hardback
Publisher

Christian Focus Publications
Pages

616
Published

07/10/2016

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5.0 based on 3 reviews

2000 Years of Christ’s Power Vol. 3

Every book in this series is excellent and this is no exception. The renaissance and the reformation are some of the most significant events in world history more broadly as well as in church history and it is well worth investing the time to understand them. If you want a broad understanding of the history of christianity read this series. Whilst I’d reccomend reading the 4 volumes in order you can dive in with any of them if there’s a particular time period you want to dig into. These books give you both an engaging presentation of the events and also a variety of primary source extracts making them work both as a useful and accessible introduction AND as a useful reference resource.

RJ Lawrence

2000 Years of Christ’s Power Vol. 3

No one writes church history like what you find here. Not only full of small biographies, interesting stories, political history, original writings and the like but what has been most helpful to me is the theology issues explained and vast ground of Christian sects it introduces to you along the way. You could find something more thorough and in depth by Phillip Schaff but it is greatly outdated 100+years and discusses things we no longer dispute about, such as the dating of Johns gospel which also can be deceiving cause we have information it would leave you thinking we don’t know yet.. As for this, it’s not as colorful and amateur like some and not as academic as others, he is somewhat a nice middle ground. Many times people will write church history books and history of Christian doctrine ones separate. Nick Needham is sort of a synthesis of that pattern too. He is shameless to write 4–6 pages on a great issue at hand and explain it as clear as he can. It is so very helpful in the wide spread off–shooting during and after the Reformation. Also very clear that Needham is reformed himself but only obvious to myself because of his interest in certain choice of topics such as extra space given to Calvin, reformed people in the Catholic Church & in volume 4 much of the puritans. It may read like a thorn in the side to some but in my best opinion he doesn’t ever seem to show a unhealthy bias.

Cole Mayhugh

2000 Years of Christ’s Power Vol. 3

Nick Needham has done the Church a great service through these church history volumes. He has one of the most balanced perspectives that I have seen. I am very appreciative for the effort he has placed into creating the series.