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The Reformation for Armchair Theologians is unavailable, but you can change that!

This accessible narrative story of the Reformation is written for lay audiences. It is part of the popular Westminster John Knox Press Armchair series and is illustrated with memorable cartoons by Ron Hill. The chapters of the book are suitable for use in church adult education settings to provide a solid grounding in the history of the Reformation and its leading ideas. Questions for discussion...

moral relativism, perhaps atheism, and so on. In the Renaissance, however, the word meant something completely different. A humanist was simply a student of the humanities, a group of subjects that included rhetoric, moral philosophy (i.e., ethics), history, and poetry. Of these, rhetoric—the art of speaking or writing in a clear, convincing style—was the most important. This was an important change from medieval priorities, where education was structured around the seven liberal arts—the trivium
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