(You can get a start on the data by checking out this thread and this old article.) Writing at the end of the sixteenth century, Edmund Spenser's prose averaged about 50 words per sentence; Richard Hooker's, around 40. By the 19th century, Hawthorne's...

Lardner continued to write without credit, mostly for television. His name didn't appear in a movie's credits for 16 years, until 1965's Steve McQueen drama "The Cincinnati Kid." In 1970, he wrote the screenplay for Robert Altman's groundbreaking film...

One great apologist for this way of being Christian, John Jewel, argued that the Church of England intended to preserve the faith and practice of the undivided Church. Another, Richard Hooker, argued against the Puritan party that the Church of England...

Cranmer captured the essence of the Atonement so well, "One perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world." Or interesting even to Richard Hooker, so very influenced by John Calvin. Over the importance of...

Baptism nor the Eucharist for bare resemblances or memorials of things absent, neither for naked signs and testimonies assuring us of grace received before but for means effectual whereby God, when we take the sacraments, delivereth into our hands that...