| Description |
ix, 513 pages : map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [475]-495) and index. |
| Contents |
Central Europe in the mid-sixteenth century -- 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 -- 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 -- The global age. Redeeming South Africa ; Korean in adversity and prosperity ; Chinese Protestantism's long march ; Pentecostalism : an old flame -- The Protestant future. |
| Summary |
Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s theses, a global history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. |
| Subject |
Protestantism -- History.
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Church history.
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Church history. (OCoLC)fst00860740
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Protestantism. (OCoLC)fst01079920
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ryrie, Alec, author. Protestants. New York : Viking, 2017 9780735222816 (DLC) 2017008531 |
| ISBN |
9780670026166 (hardcover) |
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0670026166 (hardcover) |
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