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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches
With sound historical scholarship and penetrating insight, Roland
Bainton examines Luther's widespread influence. He re-creates the
spiritual setting of the sixteenth century, showing Luther's place
within it and influence upon it. Richly illustrated with more than
100 woodcuts and engravings from Luther's own time, Here I Stand
dramatically brings to life Martin Luther, the great Reformer. A
specialist in Reformation history, Roland H. Bainton was for
forty-two years Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at
Yale, and he continued his writing well into his twenty years of
retirement. Bainton wore his scholarship lightly and had a lively,
readable style. His most popular book was Here I Stand: A Life of
Martin Luther (1950), which sold more than a million copies.
College Voices tells the story of Christ's College Aberdeen, a
theological college of the Church of Scotland, from its beginnings
in the 1840s to the present day. This is a rich and colourful
story, vividly told, and peopled with many fascinating characters
and stories. Hundreds of young men, and later women, have passed
through the doors seeking to meet the demands of the College and
authorities to become ministers for the Free Church, the United
Free Church and, since 1929, for the Church of Scotland. Written by
the College's administrator, who saw how the personalities of
teachers and students alike shone through the formal language of
minute books and other records, College Voices relates how the
College grew and evolved alongside the history not only of Scotland
but of the world. It demonstrates the effects on ministerial
training of two world wars, and is honest about times when the
College was threatened by closure and scandal.
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