The paper received some minor discussion and then was ignored. He expected those ideas to be hot stuff, controversial in fact, he found a number of his colleagues agreed with him. Luther had written his manifesto earlier, in Latin and for discussion within his own university. What nobody bothers to tell you is that what he nailed up was old work and he didn’t expect anyone to notice much. Luther nailed his Theses, his points for change in Christian life and worship, to the door of Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517. We open with the inevitable Martin Luther, he of the Ninety-five Theses nailed to a door. González adjusts his narrative style accordingly: where the earlier volume is clearly a history of theological thought, Volume II is more closely tied to political history. But the Reformation is a tale of several stories developing in parallel as the major Protestant denominations arise and the Catholics respond to that challenge.

Until the Reformation, the history of Christianity is the history of the Catholic Church, give or take a few heresies it is inherently linear.

Volume II is cut from slightly different cloth than its predecessor, largely because its subject demands it. You may recall that we considered the author's Volume I a few months back, and the Curmudgeon was a fan. Well, up to a point with today’s work, The Story of Christianity – Volume II by Justo L.

Christianity – if you liked the movie, you’ll love the sequel!

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