Daniel_Cheung
04-23-2009, 02:07 PM
Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution--A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First
by Alister McGrath
HarperOne, 560 pp., $29.95
http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=6690
Protestantism, McGrath writes, is dangerous because it is based on the dangerous idea that the Bible is the main source of authority for the Christian religion and that all Christians have the right to interpret it for themselves.
Protestantism is dangerous. It is an explosive and ultimately uncontrollable force that can destabilize and undermine church and government. It can reject time-honored truths, traditions and institutions--including its own--and posit new ones in their place, only to repeat this process again and again. Protestantism is infinitely restless, constantly moving in many divergent directions at the same time. Like evolution, it possesses astonishing power to create highly adaptive religious organisms and equally astonishing power to destroy them if they fail to develop appropriately....
by Alister McGrath
HarperOne, 560 pp., $29.95
http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=6690
Protestantism, McGrath writes, is dangerous because it is based on the dangerous idea that the Bible is the main source of authority for the Christian religion and that all Christians have the right to interpret it for themselves.
Protestantism is dangerous. It is an explosive and ultimately uncontrollable force that can destabilize and undermine church and government. It can reject time-honored truths, traditions and institutions--including its own--and posit new ones in their place, only to repeat this process again and again. Protestantism is infinitely restless, constantly moving in many divergent directions at the same time. Like evolution, it possesses astonishing power to create highly adaptive religious organisms and equally astonishing power to destroy them if they fail to develop appropriately....