Saturday, 14 July 2012
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Book Review: The Reformation by Patrick Collinson
By Nic Don at Theopolitical
This is a difficult book to review, and the brevity and paucity of my comments ought to be significant in themselves. The Reformation by Patrick Collinson is an informative and enjoyable read. It is like sitting next to a brilliant professor talking about his subject at a dinner party: you may not get the full context but you’ll get a lot of great anecdotes, a highlight reel of the course, but nothing that would be useful on an exam.Collinson is clearly an academic, clearly a scholar and clearly at home in the material. But the resultant book isn’t academic or scholarly, and doesn’t leave the reader with the impression of having been at home in the era. It is a glance, nothing more, at the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. It is enough to say, “That must have been a very interesting time. Someone could write a very interesting book about that.”
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When I studied the Reformation, our readings were from original sources like Martin Luther himself. It's unfortunate that so many of us need to be told what to think by people of dubious intent.
I can't get over how good "Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul" is by John M. Barry.
just sayin'