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Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
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TL;DR This book is a mess.
The historical information about what was going on politically surrounding the Reformation was helpful. Otherwise, this book made some wild and unsubstantiated presumptions about the Reformation (e.g. Sola Scriptura was something Luther came up with accidentally and after the fact without thinking about the ramifications), villified the Reformation (I get that the author is Catholic, but straw man argument about John Calvin gleefully seeing to Michael Servetus' death is an old and easily debunked one), made minor theological disagreements into major conflicts, and then tried to somehow(unconvincingly) connect the 2016 election of Trump and climate change to the conflicts set in motion by the Reformation 500 years earlier.
The historical information about what was going on politically surrounding the Reformation was helpful. Otherwise, this book made some wild and unsubstantiated presumptions about the Reformation (e.g. Sola Scriptura was something Luther came up with accidentally and after the fact without thinking about the ramifications), villified the Reformation (I get that the author is Catholic, but straw man argument about John Calvin gleefully seeing to Michael Servetus' death is an old and easily debunked one), made minor theological disagreements into major conflicts, and then tried to somehow(unconvincingly) connect the 2016 election of Trump and climate change to the conflicts set in motion by the Reformation 500 years earlier.
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June 7, 2022
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June 7, 2022
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