THE UNQUENCHABLE FLAME
By Michael Reeves
IVP. 192 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978-1-84474-385-8
One of the tragedies of modern evangelical church life is a general ignorance of church history.
C.S. Lewis wrote about the ‘chronological snobbery’ that led some (I would think many) Christians to think and behave as if what happened in the past has little, if any, relevance to living for Christ in the present. Indeed, a good case can be made for tracing the church’s present ills in large part to its failure to read and learn from history (his story). Michael Reeves understands this well and has written an engaging, fresh and compelling account of the major figures and issues that characterised the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.
