A Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700 (repost)
A Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700 By Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher: Pe ng uin Books 2004 | 888 Pages | ISBN: 0140285342 | EPUB | 7 MB
Publisher: Pe ng uin Books 2004 | 888 Pages | ISBN: 0140285342 | EPUB | 7 MB
Diarmaid MacCulloch wrote what is widely considered to be the authoritative account of the Reformation—a critical juncture in the history of Christianity. "It is impossible to understand modern Europe without understanding these sixteenth-century upheavals in Latin Christianity," he writes. "They represented the greatest fault line to appear in Christian culture since the Latin and Greek halves of the Roman Empire went their separate ways a thousand years before; they produced a house divided." The resulting split between the Catholics and Protestants still divides Christians throughout the Western world. It affects interpretations of the Bible, beliefs about baptisms, and event how much authority is given to religious leaders.