And this is what will have an incredibly impact on the world. The real power in this book comes from the stories of the women themselves and the amazing power of God in their lives to sustain them through difficult times. The briefness of the chapters, the simpleness of the writing style, and the vividness of the storytelling makes this ideal as bedtime reading for children, or quick and easy devotional reading for a grown-up. Hannula provides mini-biographies of the promised fifty remarkable women, from the well-known (St Monica, Jeanne d'Albret, Corrie ten Boom) to the obscure (an unnamed Armenian woman, a Mrs Smith of Coventry, the aforesaid Lady Anne Hamilton), all evenly distributed throughout church history from late antiquity to modern times. The content, form, and style of this book is not likely to cause riots in the streets. Swashbuckling Covenanter lady? Where do I sign up to read about her?Īnd so I decided I would write and ask for a review copy of church historian Richard Hannula's latest release, Radiant: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History. I have to admit that the drawcard for me in this book's description was Lady Anne Hamilton, "who rode with the Covenanter cavalry at the decisive Battle of Berwick". (Originally posted at my blog, Vintage Novels)
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