
Publisher: Viking
Author: Alec Ryrie
ISBN: 9780670026166
Format: Hardback
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In 1517 Martin Luther, the ‘indispensable firestarter’, launched his 95 theses protesting the sale of indulgences by the Roman Catholic Church. From the upheaval of the Reformation that followed, Alec Ryrie’s fast-paced history traces five centuries of Protestantism, across the globe and numerous sects and movements, to Pentecostalism in the 20th century and the situation today. ‘We cannot understand the modern age,’ writes Ryrie, ‘without understanding the dynamic history of Protestant Christianity’. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.