Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. This week we're going to finish the conversation we started last week just like I promised.

Again I'm joined by Dr. Johnny Gibson and by Mark Earnge.

Gentlemen, welcome back.

Thank you very much.

Good to be here again.

It's great to have you, not only because you both have accents,

but it's great to have you because of this wonderful book,

Reformation worship, select liturgies from the past for the present.

We ended last week listening to Johnny talk about the role of a word centered worship

in the reformers.

Now I mentioned, and as you look at the table of contents of this book

we have a lot of the usual suspects showing up from the reformation but Mark I'm

going to ask you a question. There are some names in this table of contents that some of our listeners might not know. So tell us about one of these

figures that we might not know but that we should know about.

Sure. I'll tell you a couple of them very briefly. You got your Harris Eklampardius, who many of us, some of us will be familiar with, others of us should be familiar with.

Really important reformer from Basel wrote two liturgies that we've translated into English,

I think for the first time. And as you read these liturgies, not only do you get a feel for how word-based

and how Christ-centered they were, but you get a feel for the thought and care that crafted these

liturgies. And as we spend a little bit of time introducing liturgy in our book, you'll see how Eklumbardius has had an influence on other reforms, on Calvin, on on Calvin, on others. And I think you see this in our liturgies that we've

put in this book that there's a wonderful cross-pollination of liturgies. You'll find

obscure people perhaps that you haven't thought about having profound influence on our

tradition of worship in the Reformed tradition. There's a Polish reformer in here. Tell us about him.

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