Fired up by their faith, Protestants have embarked on courageous journeys into the unknown like many rebels and refugees who made their way to our shores. Protestants created America and defined its special brand of entrepreneurial diligence. Some turned to their bibles to justify bold acts of political opposition, others to spurn orthodoxies and insight on their God-given rights. Above all Protestants have fought for their beliefs, establishing a tradition of principled opposition and civil disobedience that is as alive today as it was 500 years ago. In this engrossing and magisterial work, Alec Ryrie makes the case that whether or not you are yourself a Protestant, you live in a world shaped by Protestants.
Part I The Reformation Age
Chapter 1 Luther and the Fanatics p. 15
The Call of Reform p. 16
An Accidental Revolutionary p. 19
"Captive to the Word of God" p. 28
The Fanatics' Reformation p. 35
Chapter 2 Protectors and Tyrants p. 40
Taming the Reformation p. 40
The Two Kingdoms p. 47
Chaos and Order p. 52
Revolutionary Saints p. 56
Chapter 3 The Failure of Calvinism p. 61
Parallel Reformations p. 61
Calvin's Contribution p. 65
Lutheranism in Search of Concord p. 69
Dreams of Union p. 72
The Unraveling of Calvinism p. 78
Chapter 4 Heretics, Martyrs, and Witches p. 84
Martyrdom and Heresy p. 85
Turning the Tide p. 90
The Luxury of Intolerance p. 95
The Devil's Minions p. 102
Chapter 5 The British Maelstrom p. 107
An Unlikely War p. 108
Winning the Peace p. 113
Journeys into the Unknown p. 120
Quakers and Anglicans p. 127
Chapter 6 From the Waters of Babylon to a City on a Hill p. 132
An Age of Exiles p. 133
American Pilgrimages p. 138
Preaching to the Nations p. 143
Part II The Modern Age
Chapter 7 Enthusiasm and Its Enemies p. 155
The Pietist Adventure p. 158
Moravian Riders p. 168
Methodism: Pietism's English Stepchild p. 171
The Revivals' New World p. 176
Chapter 8 Slaves to Christ p. 183
The Emergence of Protestant Slavery p. 184
Living with Slavery p. 188
The Road to Abolition p. 195
The Gospel of Slavery p. 200
Slavery's Lessons p. 206
Chapter 9 Protestantism's Wild West p. 209
Big-Tent Protestantism p. 210
The Communitarian Alternative p. 217
The Narrow Way p. 221
Witnessing for Jehovah p. 226
Latter-Day Protestants p. 231
Chapter 10 The Ordeals of Liberalism p. 238
The Liberal Project p. 240
God's Successive Revelations p. 246
The Book of Nature p. 250
Liberalism in the Trenches p. 255
Chapter 11 Two Kingdoms in the Third Reich p. 265
Making Peace with Nazism p. 268
De-Judaizing Christianity p. 273
Shades of Opposition p. 277
The Limits of the Possible p. 284
Chapter 12 Religious Left and Religious Right p. 291
Saving Civilization in the Age of World War II p. 296
The Gospel of Civil Rights p. 304
Prophetic Christianity in the 1960s p. 309
The Crisis of the Religious Left p. 316
Part III The Global Age
Chapter 13 Redeeming South Africa p. 327
Settlers and Missionaries p. 328
Blood River p. 333
"Separate Development" p. 340
The Trek to Repentance p. 352
The Independent Witness p. 359
Chapter 14 Korea in Adversity and Prosperity p. 362
Missionary Beginnings p. 363
Revival and Nationalism p. 368
South Korea's Journey p. 375
Full Gospels p. 380
Northern Fears and Hopes p. 385
Chapter 15 Chinese Protestantism's Long March p. 391
Dreams and Visions p. 392
Protestants and imperialists p. 399
Death and Resurrection in the People's Republic p. 404
Believing in Modern China p. 413
China's Protestant Future p. 419
Chapter 16 Pentecostalism: An Old Flame p. 425
A Tangle of Origins p. 426
The Pentecostal Experience p. 433
Becoming a Global Faith p. 443
The Politics of Pentecostalism p. 447
Epilogue: The Protestant Future p. 455
Old Quarrels and New p. 456
Protestants in the World p. 464
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