The authors of the book, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine, and Death in Reformation Europe, took a different approach to writing, by breaking the book up into different “Horsemen” out of the book Revelations. At the being of each new chapter the authors use Revelations 6, to introduce what was happening in Reformation Europe. The titles of each chapter relate to the color the horse, and the horsemen from Revelations that the authors were using as title names for each chapter to explain the things that are going to be happening.
Though, these “horsemen” have spiritual meanings, Cunningham and Grell, used them as examples to what was happening in Europe at that certain point. This book, is in reference to early modern Europe and the changes that got them there. These changes include, “social, religious, and political
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Christian between Christian, Christian against non-Christians, the reason that Christians were fighting during this was because Christianity was being endangered and the believers would do anything to save their beliefs. “…helps explain the ‘external’ Ottoman threat to western Christianity in this period…” (98). The people were more able to believe Luther’s 95 theses the longer the wars continued, and the worse they got. This was all because years before the “beginning” of the apocalypse had started and before he even had written his theses, he said that war was part of the end. “Luther had already told his students that among the major signs of the Last Days clearly spelt out in Matthew 24, were wars and rumors about wars” (100). The wars of this time period, were long and drawn out religious