The Age of Reason: From the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, 1570-1789

The Baker History of the Church #5

by Meic Pearse

The Baker History of the Church series is an accessible and authoritative series that sheds light on the roots of the faith, the foundations of the church, and the sweeping changes occurring during the Reformation. The fifth volume, The Age of Reason, covers the period AD 1570-1789. From the reign of Queen Elizabeth I through the Enlightenment and into the beginning of the French Revolution, the church underwent incredible changes and lost considerable power over the governments of the European continent. The churches of the East were living under Muslim rule and withering slowly. And in the Americas the church took on new forms and marked the beginning of a distinctive experience of Christianity in the New World. Meic Pearse helps pastors, students, and laypeople make sense of it all.

Genres: History, Church History, Church

464 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2006

About the author

Originally from Britain, Pearse did his master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Oxford, having previously taken his B.A. in the University of Wales, and his D.M.S. (business and management) at the Polytechnic of Wales.

Currently living in the U.S. and Croatia, Meic Pearse is Professor of History at Houghton College, New York, where he leads the ‘East Meets West’ Honors Program, which introduces students to the study of three major world civilizations: the Catholic/Protestant West, Eastern Orthodoxy and (in southeastern Europe and the Middle East) Islam.

For more than a decade, Pearse taught Church History at the London School of Theology, for most of that time as head of its B.A. in Theology programme. He is also Visiting Professor of Church History at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Croatia, where he has taught annually since 1995.

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[Emil Bredahl · Rating 5 out of 5]

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