Protestants : the faith that made the modern world / Alec Ryrie.
Ryrie, Alec, author.
2017
BX4805.3 .R97 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Protestants : the faith that made the modern world / Alec Ryrie.
Author Ryrie, Alec, author.
ISBN 9780670026166 (hardcover)
0670026166 (hardcover)
9780735222816
Published New York : Viking, [2017]
Language English
Description ix, 513 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number BX4805.3 .R97 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 280/.409
Summary On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk. Today, it includes a billion people across the globe. The upheaval Martin Luther triggered inspired one of the most creative and destructive movements in human history. Protestants is the story of the men and women who made and remade this quarrelsome faith. Fired by life-changing encounters with their God, they set out for every corner of the world, demanded alarming new freedoms and experimented in new systems of government. Inspired by their newly accessible Bibles, they transformed their inner lives, a transformation that spilled over into social upheavals and political revolutions. In the process, they have played decisive roles on both sides of the great ideological battles of modern times. Protestants have been both for and against liberalism, imperialism, slavery, Nazism, communism, apartheid and women's rights. Yet beneath it all is a shared passion for God, a vital belief in the principle of self-determination and a readiness to fight for their beliefs. As this ever-changing faith puts down deep roots across contemporary China, Africa, and Latin America, Alec Ryrie's dazzling history explores how its restless energy made and is still making the modern world. - Publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-495) and index.
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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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