REFORMATION WOMEN:
Sixteenth-Century Figures Who Shaped
Christianity’s Rebirth
By Rebecca VanDoodewaard
Reformation Heritage Books. 115 pages. £14
ISBN 978 1 601 785 329
Rebecca VanDoodewaard has written a fascinating book focusing on 12 women scattered across the European continent during the Reformation.
Each held influential roles, some within clergy or royal circles, others having particular gifts. They all demonstrated tireless service and tremendous courage in times of great change and, with it, danger. This book was written partly as a response to revisionist feminist interpretations of particular Reformation women as if they were exceptions to the norm at the time, when they were ‘simply sample expressions of a widespread biblical complementarianism’.
