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The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society

von Brad S. Gregory

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In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism-all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West.Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation's protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science-as the source of all truth-necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge.The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.… (mehr)
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While it has taken me far longer than I had hoped to read this book, I am very glad that I have read this. For a number of years I have argued that Liberalism began in the Reformation and that is backed up by this book. It asked questions that I had not thought of and it has pointed me in directions that have opened my thinking.

How could the Universities brush Christianity aside so easily, even though it took a long time?

Why did rationalism seem like such a good answer, but it failed to provide the answers that it promised?

Why don't we live in a more Christian society, when that was the aim of the Protestant reformers?

This is not a light read, it is an academic book written by an academic, but with that proviso I think that the book is excellent. ( )
  bookmarkaussie | Jun 7, 2021 |
Although this doesn't necessarily say anything new, Gregory's synthesis is absolutely brilliant. This may be one of the best books written on Reformation history in the past five years. ( )
  histprof | Oct 17, 2018 |
The author lays out his argument in a thorough and well documented proportion viz. that the roots of the Protestant Reformation are still with us and have accelerated the secularization of knowledge, the dissolution of an agreed upon moral code and promoted avarice and the accumulation of wealth through unbridled capitalism. Not all at once of course but our manner of viewing History has been “fissiparous” at best. The cry of “Sola Scriptura” that led away from the hegemony of the Medieval Roman Church did not arrive at independence but divisiveness, argumentation and rigid control of social mores (where possible). Theology was removed from the university curriculum or relegated to Religion Studies; science and reason bolstered the Enlightenment where “God was Dead” and it became more difficult to find answers to “life questions”. To dispel the occasional miasma of academic fog there are 145 pages of footnotes. The author very deftly provides a broad historical perspective, well worth this reader’s attention. Like any good book, it not only tells its narrative but also promotes questions…many questions. ( )
  mcdenis | Jan 3, 2017 |
As a Buddhist, I must say this book came across as rather narrow, practically to the point of blindness. The idea that a moral foundation requires belief in a Creator God - this is just preposterous! OK, it is not a totally unreasonable belief. But not to see how questionable the idea is... that is a remarkable blindness. In the context of this book, it is anyway understandable. Buddhism has surely played at most an invisible and minor role in the development of the modern world. There was a splendid article recently in The Atlantic magazine on the possible or probable influence of Tibetan Buddhism on David Hume! But still, at this point, if the university is really to take metaphysics seriously again and not naively, then part of this surely needs to take into account the sophisticated traditions from around the world, certainly from India and China.

The contrast I like to point out is between the awesome accomplishments of science next to the awesome failures of the philosophy of science. The poster child could be climate change. On the one hand there are all kinds of sophisticated models of the atmosphere etc. On the other hand we are totally powerless to think about the validity of whatever scientific hypothesis in the matter.

History and metaphysics really are fundamental and constitutive for our experience and approach to the world. By ignoring them we surrender our power, we lose our ability to steer our way. This book does a fine job of pointing us back to the choices we have, to our crucial responsibilities. It barely touches on any idea of how to take hold of the issues, to steer ourselves to a better future. Still, it is a valuable start. ( )
1 abstimmen kukulaj | May 1, 2016 |
A Catholic apologetic masquerading as Reformation history. ( )
1 abstimmen petie1974 | Sep 30, 2015 |
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In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism-all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West.Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation's protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science-as the source of all truth-necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge.The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.

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