A history of recovery
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
— Isaac Newton, 1675
The Reformation did not erupt from nowhere. It was the harvest of a long recovery — of Scripture, of grace, of the gospel — carried across centuries by men and women who paid the price for what Wittenberg would later proclaim. This is a record of those shoulders.
Therefore let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, put away every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and run with endurance the race which is set before us…
55 Figures
354 Earliest born
1643 Years traced
1517 The hatching
A few of the shoulders







































