Theology of the Reformers, Book Report

Theology of the Reformers

By Timothy George

A Book Report

Introduction

Timothy George is known for his particular reference of the Bible as a major sector of his teachings that he uses on his previous students when he used to volunteer as an educator of the church . The skills that he has particularly placed on the teaching procedures that he used to assist young learners have motivated him to pursue a career in assisting university theology schools in learning the history of reformative theology through the procedures that he uses

for teaching . As a result he started out as one of the Board of Directors of the Lifeway Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention . Later on , he became the founding dean of the Beeson Divinity School . Along with this career , he also is a prolific author of the Christian reformation history

As an author , he has been known for his book entitled the Theology if the Reformers ' which is currently used as the main text book for teaching and learning in several theology schools . This has been simply because of the fact that the whole book contains massively reliable information for understanding and realizing the importance of history within the context of their learning years . Aside from this , the strategies of writing-presentation used by George in this particular book also made it as an authenticated source of information about the history of church reformation

The latest edition of the book has been published in 1999 . From the year that it has been first published though , it could be noted that the readers of the said book already learned to appreciate the ways by which the informative-details of the book had been well presented . In this case , the idea of making the students of theology and religion classes realize the importance of the era of religious reformation with the way they live today have been well outlined through the posted informations in the said reading material . It could be noticed too that through the pages of the book , there are several indications that the reformists and their theories on religion are indeed of a high regard that they all conform to the betterment of the application of the religious practices of the society

Content and Summary

The entire theme of the book is subdivided into four major chapters that pertain to the different reformation advocates of the different people of the Church during the human history . The said chapters particularly refer to the different era of church reformation . The said chapters are as follows

Yearning For the Grace : Martin Luther

Martin Luther 's idealism on returning to the actual grace of God shall be the main reason why there would be a certain change that could happen within the human society . If a decisive starting point of the Protestant Reformation has to be given , it would be October 31 , 1517 , when the Augustinian monk Martin Luther (1483-1546 ) nailed his 95 theses to the door of the castle church at Wittenberg...