Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062471171 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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He also received the first annual Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.. Brad Gregory is a professor of European History at Notre Dame and the author of Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, which received six awards, including the prestigious Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award and the American Catholic Historical Association's John Gilmary Shea Prize, and The
About the AuthorBrad Gregory is a professor of European History at Notre Dame and the author of Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, which received six awards, including the prestigious Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award and the American Catholic Historical Association's John Gilmary Shea Prize, and The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society, which was named a Book of the Year by the Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and ABC Religion & Ethics. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.. He also received the first annual Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
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.. 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. Luther did not intend to start a revolution that would divide the Catholic Church and forever change Western civilization. In Rebel in the Ranks, Brad Gregory, renowned professor of European history at Notre Dame, recasts this long-accepted portrait. 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 w