Blame It On the Reformation (Part 2)
In The Unintended Reformation, Brad Gregory objects to the sort of doctrinal and (ultimately) intellectual pluralism that Protestants, with their doctrine of sola scriptura and their belief in the...
View ArticleBlame It On the Reformation (Part 3): When Disruption Started
Another feature of the Reformation that harmed the West, according to Brad Gregory in The Unintended Reformation, is the state’s increasing power, including the authority to regulate religious life....
View ArticleBlame It On the Reformation (Part 4): Jerusalem and Athens All Over Again
On the subject of morality (chapter four in The Unintended Reformation), Brad Gregory performs a sleight of hand that is well-nigh remarkable since Protestant-Roman Catholic differences on ethics may...
View ArticleBlame It On the Reformation (Part 5): Channeling Schaeffer
In his chapter on economics and the “goods life,” Brad Gregory has a kvetch-fest about free markets and consumerism (that echoes Francis Schaeffer on Aquinas): The earlier and more fundamental change...
View ArticleBlame It on the Reformation (Part Six): We’ll Take the Blame, Thanks
In his last chapter Gregory directly links Protestantism to the secularization of knowledge. Pardon the digression, but if secular means “of this present age” as opposed to the age to come, how could...
View ArticleRod & Carl v. Brad (let charity leak)
Rod Dreher is just getting around to Carl Trueman’s review of Brad Gregory’s Unintended Reformation, a book featured here in a series of posts. The quotations are juicy in a no rocks, peaty, neat sort...
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If Jesus' Kingdom Is Not of this World
Does that mean that Europe is heaven? From a while back, Michael Brendan Dougherty explains that Jesus didn’t die to save western civilization: Or read Richard Weaver on William of Ockham. Find some of...
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Reverse Whiggism
It comes from the bottom of the magazine pile, but Michael Brendan Dougherty shows what it would be like to have J. Gresham Machen trapped in a Roman Catholic convert’s body: . . . read Richard Weaver...
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Blame It on Christendom
Another way to read the Reformation: I’ve been reading this week historian Brad Gregory’s study The Unintended Reformation: How A Religious Revolution Secularized Society. I had imagined it to be a...
View ArticleFussy Certainty
The interview with Brad Gregory about his latest book on Martin Luther revealed a fundamental difference between Roman Catholics and magisterial Protestants. Around the twenty-minute mark, Gregory...
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