Word: damascus
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...Christendom, the moment in which lightning struck Martin Luther was almost as crucial as the episode of the Damascus road. In Here I Stand (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $4.75), a new biography of the founder of the Reformation in Germany, Roland H. Bainton, a Quaker and a Yale professor of church history, carefully details the character and extent of the great crisis that was set in motion that day. Within 13 tumultuous years the Luther energy had blasted Christianity out of its late-medieval lethargy, ripped the universal church to sectarian shreds, created the Protestant movement and set its main direction...