2,000 Years of Christ's Power: The Age of Religious Conflict – Volume 4

Perhaps no other time period has been so profoundly marked by sheer intensity of conflict—between traditions and within traditions—as that spanning from the 16th to the 18th century. The exciting times of learning and discover that stretched the boundaries of accepted thought amidst the Renaissance and Reformation had left in their wake a period of universal uncertainty that turned the centuries-old status quo on its head.

Nick Needham's 2,000 Years of Christ's Power: The Age of Religious Conflict, the fourth of a multiple volume series on the history of the church, covers roughly the period between 1560 to 1740. It presents a time from which English Protestantism, Scottish Presbyterianism, and French Catholicism, to name a few, were birthed and refined. Academically reliable, but written with an easy, even humorous style which makes it accessible to anybody with an interest, this work falls in a category all of its own, detailing an era within church history that has profoundly and directly impacted the characteristics of our own period of history.