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Protestants : The Radicals who made the modern world
Outline: This book is the story of men and women who made and remade this quarrelsome faith. Fired by life-changing encounters with their God, they set out for every corner of the world, demanding alarming freedoms and experimented in novel systems of government. Inspired by their newly accessible Bibles, they transformed their inner lives, a change that spilled over into social upheavals and politival revolutions. In the process, they have played decisive roles on both sides of the great ideological battles of modern times. Protestants have been both for and against liberalism, imperialism, slavery, Nazism, communism, apartheid and women's rights. Yet beneath it all is a shared passion for God, a vital benefit in the principle of self-determination and a readiness to fight for their beliefs. Protestantism's global story is still only just beginning. As this ever-changing faith puts down deep roots across contemporary China, Africa and Latin America, the author's dazzling history explores how its restless energy made and is still making the modern world.
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