¶ … Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution -- a History Sixteenth Century Twenty-First
With Christianity's Dangerous Idea -- The Protestant Revolution: A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First, author Alister McGrath provides a fairly comprehensive chronicle of Protestantism from its earliest roots to present day conceptions. McGrath is a prominent theologian and priest in the United Kingdom and the author of several books, many of which detail some aspect of Protestantism. In this particular volume, he presents a largely unbiased account of the primary notion that spawned this religion and examines its myriad applications, with varying degrees of success, throughout the ensuing years. This approach is both Christianity's strength and its weakness: with so many different epochs, ideas, and people covered, which McGrath should be rewarded for, he cannot devote any considerable length of time to them.
Although the book is divided into three different sections, they all rotate around the conception that Protestantism was founded by Martin Luther largely on the principle that intermediaries...
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