Books written by Roland Herbert Bainton

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  Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

  ... and the calendar recalls that man's days are as the weaver's shuttle. The bell above is ready to toll. Yet in sable gloom she broods, because the issues of destiny strive in the celestial sphere. In the sky the rainbow arches, ...

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  Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

  Presents the life of the German monk, whose protest against some of the doctrines of the Catholic Church led to the Protestant Reformation.

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  The Medieval Church

  Examines the role of the Christian Church in the formation of Western civilization, tracing institutional developments as well as the religious and intellectual life during the period 400-1500 A.D. A...

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  Yesterday, Today, and what Next?: Reflections on History and Hope

  In this book, Bainton pauses to reflect on the importance of studying history because of what it can teach us about human nature. The study of history, then, is the...

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  Martin Luther's Christmas Book

  This collection contains thirty excerpts from Martin Luther's Christmas sermons.

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  Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Michael Servetus, 1511-1553

  Michael Servetus, a Spaniard executed for heresy in John Calvin's Geneva, is remembered as an important Reformation-era theologian and as a physician credited with the discovery of the circulation of the blood through the lungs.

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  The Church of Our Fathers

  The Church of Our Fathers

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  The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

  The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

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  Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

  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.

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  Early Christianity

  Pt. I. Early Christianity. The church in the age of persecution ; The church and society ; The Christian Roman empire -- Pt. II. Documents and readings. The Roman government...