Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World
Written by Alec Ryrie
Narrated by Tim Bruce
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On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world.
Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk – today, it includes a billion people across the globe.The upheaval Martin Luther triggered inspired one of the most creative and destructive movements in human history. Protestants is the story of the men and women who made and remade this quarrelsome faith by demanding alarming new freedoms and experimenting in new systems of government. Inspired by their newly accessible Bibles, they transformed their inner lives, a transformation that spilled over into social upheavals and political revolutions. Alec Ryrie’s dazzling history explores how its restless energy made and is still making the modern world.
Alec Ryrie
Alec Ryrie is professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Durham. His most recent books are Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019) and (ed.) Christianity: A Historical Atlas (2020).
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Reviews for Protestants
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a very solid, broad overview. Ryrie writes very clearly, and somehow manages to be reasonably objective, but also sympathetic, but also takes his stands when he wishes to. As others have pointed out, this book is very light on theology and doctrine, which is fine--this is a history of people, not of doctrines. The book is also very light on anything about the Baptist churches, which is very strange, given how much space Ryrie gives to sects that even he doesn't believe to be Protestant. There's a slight tendency towards writing a history of what-Protestants-did-at-important-moments-of-history, rather than a history of Protestants (did we need quite so much on the Nazi churches? Quite so much on abolitionism?), but again, that goes with the size of the project. This has certainly piqued my interest in Protestantism in America, in particular; the chapters on China, Korea, South Africa and so on are decent first stabs at a more inclusive history, and certainly taught me a lot.