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Rebel in the Ranks (Hardcover)
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Rebel in the Ranks (Hardcover)
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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.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 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.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.
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