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The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Burning pyres, nuns on the run, stirring courage, and comic relief: the Protestant Reformation is a gripping tale, packed with drama. But what motivated the Reformers? And what were they really like? The Unquenchable Flame, a lively, accessible, and fully informative introduction to the Reformation by Michael Reeves, brings to life the movement’s most colorful characters (Martin Luther, Ulrich...

no longer about sin being dealt with and forgiveness achieved. It was a simple, if moving, martyrdom. In fact, forgiveness for sins was hardly an issue, because the reality of divine judgment was denied. In other words, Socinianism sowed the seed of rational, moral, modern religiosity. Clearly there were many different models of reformation, some a very far cry from Luther’s! What made all the difference was neither zeal, nor strategy, nor hard work, but theology. NOTES 1. The Anabaptists should