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4 unusual facts about Roland Bainton


German Peasants' War

Historian Roland Bainton saw the revolt as a struggle that began as an upheaval immersed in the rhetoric of Luther's Protestant Reformation against the Catholic Church but which really was impelled far beyond the narrow religious confines by the underlying economic tensions of the time.

Promoting Enduring Peace

In its early years PEP was led by Davis and Dr. Roland Bainton, both Yale Divinity School professors, and its executive directors were retired Christian ministers.

Recycled Paper Greetings

Artists like Mary Melcher, Cynthia Bainton (granddaughter of Roland Bainton), the Bjorkman Brothers, Kathy Davis, Dan Reynolds, David Walker, Susan Allen, Vicky Barone and cartoonist Cathy Guisewite also produce or have produced greeting cards through RPG.

Supreme crime

Bainton, R. H. (1960) Christian attitudes toward war and peace. New York: Abingdon.


George Lincoln Burr

His biographer, Roland Bainton, credits Cornell in general and Burr in particular with producing historians who populated the history faculties at what were then the women's colleges of Vassar and Wellesley.


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