THE REFORMATION
A Handbook
By T.M. Lindsay, . Banner of Truth. 276 pages. £7.75
ISBN 0 85151 932 6
This great little book was first published in 1882 and recommended then by C.H. Spurgeon as ‘a condensed, scholarly account… [having] our heartiest recommendation.’
It’s easy to see why: the Reformation is seen as a major religious revival before it is anything else (a result of politics, for example) and that is surely right. Tracing the revival first in Germany, then in Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Scotland and England, Lindsay is easy to read and fair to the Reformation’s major players, with a wealth of information both for the reader new to this period and as a reference for the rest.
