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Witches, Reformation and the Fall: Sowing the Seeds of Dissent, A.D. 1500-1620, BOOK TWO—Netherlands, France, Eastern Europe & Scandinavia

James J. Fritz

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In the early 16th-century world, the devil was everywhere tempting, teasing and cajoling one to violate the Ten Commandments and do harm. Its agents, such as witches were “scapegoats” that could readily be identified and punished. Book Two reveals the concept of the witch in the society of France, Netherlands, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Book One reveals the linkage of witches to Luther’s condemnation of them as the source of the devil. Have you ever asked why Christian Western Civilization has lost its vitality and is in decline? Why is there so much uncertainty and division within America and Europe that appears to bring us to the brink of civil war? Some of the seeds of dissent may have been planted when Martin Luther, a devout Augustinian monk turned against the Roman Catholic Church. When Luther refused to recant his writings, his rebellion and dissent spread all over the Christian world. The dissent caused other princes within the Holy Roman Empire to suddenly realize an opportunity for a break with Rome and a seizure of its vast array of assets. This work will reveal the religious wars that plagued all of Europe and at a critical time when the Ottoman Empire of the Muslim faith was at the gates of Vienna. (319pp. color illus. index. Masthof Press, 2025.)

Also available is Witches, Reformation and the Fall: Sowing the Seeds of Dissent, A.D. 1500-1620, BOOK ONE (item #4591).

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Carol Quaintance
In 100 years it was all new people

Dear Professor Fritz:
Have you published your third book yet?

I wrote my Scottish Fairytale for my littles, with all the wee creatures of elves, and fairies, and the adorable Highland Cows., I was watching to see how you might enlighten me on this enchanting history. But Christmas was waiting...

I wont get it published, it is more like Snow White or Fantasia, doubt there is an audience for it, We writers fall in love with our darlings.

Reading your book captured memories of a Cancer Doctor Frangipani at the Reading Hospital He ran support groups for his patients. He always said, " In one hundred years it will be all new people." 

Reading your book is once again a magical journey of how religion collided with culture and bred a whole new world, I loved the depth of your explanation of how Catholicism becomes not your religion but your life; how many days a year you fast; how it is your spiritual existence as well as your social existence. 
 
I recently lost the Amish auctioneer; farmer I wrote my first published book with. He drove an antique tractor Across America for Wounded Heroes, It was his passion to the end. It was he who stirred my mission to write books for American Heroes ~ our veterans.

How fragile we are...tear stained at one man's loss...in a hundred years it will be all new people!

I thank you for capturing these great volumes of history, lest we forget from where we came...once they lived with Jesus.in the streets of the Middle East... today plans are a foots that no Jews will again dance the mystical dance of twirling divas... as others riot cheering on criminals in America's Streets.

I remember reading" The Spiritual Exercises of St, Ignatius" and saying " this is the truth!"

And then along came Luther.

Hence your book: what we believed for centuries and then it was all new people with all new interpretations making a multitude of religions dependent upon individualism, the Enlightenment, and maybe just contemplating the stars like astrologists.


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