Rebel In The Ranks: Martin Luther, The Reformation, And The Conflicts That Continue To Shape Our World
by Brad S. Gregory /
2017 / English / EPUB
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On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this
compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that
examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther
and the epochal movement that continues to shape the world today.
On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this
compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that
examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther
and the epochal movement that continues to shape the world today.
For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an
outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages
and heralded the beginning of the modern world. In
For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an
outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages
and heralded the beginning of the modern world. InRebel in
the Ranks
Rebel in
the Ranks, Brad Gregory, renowned professor of European
history at Notre Dame, recasts this long-accepted portrait.
Luther did not intend to start a revolution that would divide the
Catholic Church and forever change Western civilization. Yet his
actions would profoundly shape our world in ways he could never
have imagined.
, Brad Gregory, renowned professor of European
history at Notre Dame, recasts this long-accepted portrait.
Luther did not intend to start a revolution that would divide the
Catholic Church and forever change Western civilization. Yet his
actions would profoundly shape our world in ways he could never
have imagined.
Gregory analyzes Luther’s inadvertent role in starting the
Reformation and the epochal changes that followed. He reveals how
Luther’s insistence on the Bible as the sole authority for
Christian truth led to conflicting interpretations of its
meaning—and to the rise of competing churches, political
conflicts, and social upheavals. Ultimately, he contends, some of
the major historical and cultural developments that arose in its
wake—including the Enlightenment, individual self-determination
and moral relativism, and a religious freedom that protects one’s
right to worship or even to reject religion—would have appalled
Luther: a reluctant revolutionary, a rebel in the ranks, whose
goal was to make society more Christian, yet instead set the
world on fire.
Gregory analyzes Luther’s inadvertent role in starting the
Reformation and the epochal changes that followed. He reveals how
Luther’s insistence on the Bible as the sole authority for
Christian truth led to conflicting interpretations of its
meaning—and to the rise of competing churches, political
conflicts, and social upheavals. Ultimately, he contends, some of
the major historical and cultural developments that arose in its
wake—including the Enlightenment, individual self-determination
and moral relativism, and a religious freedom that protects one’s
right to worship or even to reject religion—would have appalled
Luther: a reluctant revolutionary, a rebel in the ranks, whose
goal was to make society more Christian, yet instead set the
world on fire.
