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Lawrence S. Cunningham

Burning to Read English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents James Simpson Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, $27.95, 368 pp. According to the standard argument of Protestant historiography, the sixteenth-century struggle to provide a vernacular Bible, with the corresponding doctrine that each person can come to a knowledge of faith sola scriptura, was a pivota (...)


 

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