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Gods Generals: The Roaring Reformers

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I loved every bit of this book. Growing up I dreaded the long monotone teachers and memorizing the dates & the timelines in my history classes. After having a great history teacher in college I have grown to love history! It is now a hobbie of sorts for me. And in this book you can see the lives of these men from a different angle than you find in most history books. I found their lives were relatable and I was encouraged by their trials and their accomplishments!

This is an okay book, about Great Men

The people reviewed in this book are great men of God. The book itself is kind of awkward. The author presents biographical sketches, interlaced with comments like, '...I admire the sacrifices that Hus' mother must have made, because I also had a mother and a grandmother who taught me to pray and seek the Lord from my youth. I can relate to the dedication and love that Hus' mother gave to her son. The love of a mother remains the same, no matter what generation she lives in.'

These kind of musings occur throughout the book, and distract from the content. The author also provides a lot of opinions about the characters of these people, rather than just telling their stories.

Overall, a book I'd rather borrow than buy. But I'd rather borrow a better book.

God has blessed Roberts Liardon with a good heart and a desire to further the work of Christ. Six reformers are described in the book; (John Wycliffe, John Hus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, and George Fox.) Any one who has a relationship with the Holy Spirit will be blessed dearly by this book. However, the religous and fake Christians will find this book offensive because, as described in the book, the purpose of the reformers was to point out fake Christianity and replace it with the true gospel.

I've enjoyed God's Generals II very much. There is a lot of history contained within it's pages. I have learned a lot that I didn't already know so I can say it is definitely worth reading. I did, however, enjoy God's Generals I more, but I think much of that has to do with the fact that it was more modern generals. Anyway, I recommend you get it.

Great read. Chapters highlighted key reformers in an interesting and detailed way. All this info in one volume...this book was very informative and a bargain. I found it very helpful and together with God's General's 1 a perfect edition to my library.

This is my favorite of the God's Generals series. I like it because it has less people than the original so the biography of each one is longer. It also goes the furthest back in history of any in the series. Of the three I have read I would rate this one first, the original (God's Generals) second, and The Revivalists third. They are all good, but for some reason the Reformers were the most interesting characters to me. The more modern miracle workers from the first book were also interesting. I would love to see Liardon write about people further back in Christian history as well.

Read this book and you will become an expert in the area of church ministry reform. It is just excellent and it is an excellent reference book.

Infact, the first book of the God's Generals series that I read blew me to the realm of the spirit. I finished that book in no time. I rate it a five star. I'm now reading the second one and I surely recommend the series to anyone who has the zeal to be a general for God. Nana

This book is full of lies and points of view to distract people from what they should really search for in God. This book has an obvious intent to mock the Catholic Church and place lies about the faith of the Church.

For instance: page 123 "Because few in the Roman Catholic Church had a personal relationship with Jesus", and on the same page says that prayer to the dead saints "is not permissable according to scripture". Nowhere in scripture says "thou shall not pray to fallen saints"...

This book obviously is intended to turn people to split Jesus' Church and create fights among Christians.

Throwing out solid doctrine for mysticism and comparing themselves with Luther, Calvin and Knox! WOW - arrogant and stupid all in one!

I am always amazed when pastors turn historians. It nearly always results in a warped view of history and a decidedly biased presentation of fact.

When you deal with Luther, Calvin, Knox, Zwingli and the sort you should NEVER leave out that the REFORMATION started in each Country differently and that there were secret bible readings at Cambridge in England in 1508 - LONG before Luther had had it with Tetzel and his selling "escapes from purgatory." Luther never meant to start a new denomination or split. The Catholic Pope handled it the wrong way (as he did nearly everything he touched). Finally, how do you leave out Elizabeth I, QUeen of England?

Despite her obvious advantage politically to supporting the "new religion," as it was called. Reading her poetry will tell you that she had a deep grasp on the theology of Fatih, Grace and Justification.

This presentation is flawed (as is most church historical information) and leaves out much of the character of these individuals. I am a graduate student of Music History and Musicologists do the same thing. However, truth is truth and this book deines some historical truth and fails to look at others. Its just kind of a bit of fluff.