A Religious Revolution : The Protestant Reformation Volume 2 (Hardcover)

A Religious Revolution: The Protestant Reformation is the fourth installment in Henri Daniel-Rops magnificent History of the Church of Christ. This volume which includes the last three chapters of that work examines in detail the Protestant phenomenon: first a careful study of the tragedy of Martin Luther and the eventful early days of Lutheranism on the theological social and political planes; second a vivid account of John Calvin and his horrifying success in organizing the threads of Lutheranism into a force capable of rending the garments of Christianity; and third a meticulous synopsis of Protestantism s development from a religious revolt concerned with theological and doctrinal distinctions to a fully established political institution with influence across Europe. Alongside Luther and Calvin stand Popes Clement VII and Paul III; Erasmus and King Henry VIII; and Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher. A superb presentation of the tumultuous years of 1350-1564 A Religious Revolution: The Protestant Reformation brings to life an epoch in which everything everywhere was changing and falling apart; systems opposed systems new dogmatisms clash with old; rigid formulae only half conceal uncertainty and anguish; the whole of human activity held increasingly fast in the grip of an indefinable kind of agonizing fermentation.