Erasmus - Luther - Discourse On Free Will (Milestones Of Thought)

Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1961-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. ~Fair. No DJ. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Spine peeling away from book, moderate wear to edges and corners. Academic library markings/stamps; moderate to heavy shelf wear; satisfaction guaranteed. Association Copy: This book is from the personal collection of Dr. Roland Bainton and bears his presentation bookplate to Penrose Memorial Library at Whitman College inside the front cover, as well as his signature on the FFEP. Roland Herbert Bainton (1894?1984) was a British born American Protestant church historian. He was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire,[1] England and came to the United States in 1902. He received an A.B. degree from Whitman College, and B.D. and Ph.D.. degrees from Yale University. He also received a number of honorary degrees including a D.D. from Meadville Theological Seminary and from Oberlin College, Dr. Theologiae from the University of Marburg, Germany, and Litt.D. from Gettysburg College. A specialist in Reformation history, Bainton was for forty-two years Titus Street Professor of ecclesiastical history at Yale, and he continued his writing well into his twenty years of retirement.Bainton's father was a pacifist, and he himself married a Quaker. Graduating from seminary just as World War I began, he affiliated with the Society of Friends' unit of the American Red Cross. Although he was ordained as a Congregationist minister, he never served as the pastor of a congregation.Bainton wore his scholarship lightly and had a lively, readable style. His most popular books were Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950)--which sold more than a million copies?and The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (1952), both of which were widely used as textbooks. In all he was the author of more than thirty books on Christianity. Many of Bainton's books are illustrated with examples taken from his collection of medieval and Renaissance drawings, woodcuts, and engravings.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1954.[3]A collection of essays in honor of Roland Bainton was published in 1962.