Title:
Protestants : the faith that made the modern world / Alec Ryrie.
Author:
Ryrie, Alec, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin, 2018
©2017.
Call Number:
BX4805.3 .R97 2018
Abstract:
Five hundred years ago a stubborn German monk challenged the Pope with a radical vision of what Christianity could be. The revolution he set in motion toppled governments, upended social norms and transformed millions of people’s understanding of their relationship with God. Fired up by their faith, Protestants have embarked on courageous journeys into the unknown - traveling to distant lands to experiment with new forms of government and to worship in peace. Martin Luther didn't set out to change the world, but his ideas took a life of their own. Alec Ryrie makes the case that we owe many of the rights and freedoms we take for granted- from free speech and democracy to that all-American concept of limited government - to our Protestant roots.
ISBN:
9780735222823
Physical Description:
ix, 513 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Central Europe in the mid-sixteenth century -- Introduction -- Part I. The Reformation Age. Luther and the fanatics -- Protectors and tyrants -- The failure of Calvinism -- Heretics, martyrs, and witches -- The British maelstrom -- From the waters of Babylon to a city on a hill -- Part II. The modern age. Enthusiasm and its enemies -- Slaves to Christ -- Protestantism's wild west -- The ordeals of liberalism -- Two kingdoms in the Third Reich -- Religious left and religious right -- Part III. The global age. Redeeming South Africa -- Korea in adversity and prosperity -- Chinese Protestantism's Long March -- Pentecostalism : an old flame -- Epilogue : the Protestant future.
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