Christianity's dangerous idea :

McGrath, Alister E., 1953-

Christianity's dangerous idea : the Protestant revolution-- a history from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first / Alister E. McGrath. - 1st ed. - New York : HarperOne, c2007. - viii, 552 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-527) and index.

The gathering storm -- The accidental revolutionary : Martin Luther -- Alternatives to Luther : the diversification of the Reformation -- The shift in power : Calvin and Geneva -- England : the emergence of Anglicanism -- War, peace, and disinterest : European Protestantism in crisis, 1560-1800 -- Protestantism in America -- The nineteenth century : the global expansion of Protestantism -- The Bible and Protestantism -- Believing and belonging : some distinctive protestant beliefs -- The structures of faith : organization, worship, and preaching -- Protestantism and the shaping of western culture -- Protestantism, the arts, and the natural sciences -- The changing shape of American Protestantism -- Tongues of fire : the Pentecostal revolution in Protestantism -- The new frontiers of Protestantism : the global South -- Protestantism : the next generation.

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Protestantism--History.

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