num_pages: 176
description: The Reformation was and is no single event. This book, pursues it back to the thirteenth century and forwards to the twenty first. Throughout its history the Christian Church has been as well known for its disputes as for its dogmas, but in the centuries which marked the Middle Ages the pace of protest intensified as never before, until the tide of reforms built up which would overwhelm and change forever both the church and the world into which the reformers had been born. Theirs is a story of idealism and treachery, of power, politics and gory martyrdoms, of blind bigotry and courageous goodness. The reformers were truly a mixed bag - from William of Ockham to Savonarola and the Bonfires of the Vanities, from Martin Luther to Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, fom the Pilgrim Fathers, John Bunyan and John Wesley to Charles Darwin and CS Lewis - but the one thing they had in common was that they all looked beyond this world. They were campaigners for today and tomorrow. They were agitators for more than this world. They were protestors for paradise. In the book we hear not only about theology, but also the social change, the impetus of new inventions, and the unpredictable nature of individual men and women.
language: English
title: Protestors for Paradise/the Story of Christian Reformers from the Thirteenth to the Twenty-First Century
titlecomplete: Protestors for Paradise/the Story of Christian Reformers from the Thirteenth to the Twenty-First Century
ratings_count: 1
publisher: BBC Books