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Did the Reformation unleash a dangerous idea? Two reviews of Alister McGrath’s latest book

Alister McGrath is one of the most respected interpreters of the history of Protestant Christianity in the world today. Professor of historical theology at Oxford University in the U.K., he is the author of several books on the Reformed Institute’s list of recommended readings on the Reformation. Now he has produced yet another book that will be added to that list: Christianity’s Dangerous Idea—the Protestant Revolution: A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First (HarperOne 2007).  We commend it to you and offer the following reviews by two members of the Institute’s Company of Teachers to introduce the book.

Melissa Kirkpatrick
Certified Christian Educator
Presbyterian Church USA

Kirkpatrick

Mainline Protestantism, at least here in the U.S., perceives itself in decline.  Numbers are down (they are); too many seminarians are second-career (old! Where’s the new blood?); and traditions are often considered to be tired and less than useful for revivifying the old system.  Yet, as Alister McGrath points out, Protestantism is alive, well, and living ... [click for more]

David Van Houten
Program Director of the Transition into Ministry Residency Program
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church

vanhouten

Alistar McGrath’s Christianity’s Dangerous Idea is an ambitious book.  In it he attempts to provide an interpretative history of Protestantism in a single volume.   It is an examination of general trends and influences punctuated with individual cases and examples.  McGrath moves from Luther’s Wittenberg to Pentecostalism in the Global South ... [click for more]


 

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