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The Contributions of Martin Bucer to the Reformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2011

Hastings Eells
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It is a common fallacy to regard great movements in history as the work of one great prophet, to think that he alone changed the current of human events by the force of a single dynamic personality. As a matter of fact, great movements, such as the Reformation, have been produced because an unusually large number of prophets arose at the same time. Though the names of only a few have been illumined by fame, the deeds of the rest were just as necessary for the success of the movement.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 1931 , pp. 29 - 42
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1931

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