After a blogging sabbatical, I am back with the hope of weaving my way through one of my favorite books. For those that want to read along, this book can be found online for free at White Horse Media(among other places). Be aware, this book(actually books) is not for the faint of heart but is a weighty treatise on the political, social, ecclesiastical and other factors that led to the Protestant Reformation.
The importance of this book goes beyond just the period of time that the author looks at here and the struggles between Roman Catholicism and the Protestants, for it helps to highlight what ideas and forces would become the foundation of Western Civilization from the Reformation forward to modern times. At the end, this book will help explain why Western Culture was primed for the dominance that it has held over the world during these last centuries and consequently why the apathy or outright hostility towards those founding principles will, despite the protestations of modern secularists and pluralists, inevitably lead to the implosion of Western Society which is already well underway.
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