Belloc provides a largely untold story that answers a critical historical question about Western civilization: How did Christendom come to suffer shipwreck in the Protestant Reformation?
He admits that corruption among churchmen and clerical abuses in the use of church revenues prepared the way for the flood of revolt. But he uncovers other, more decisive, factors involved in the movement. He demonstrates that it was not doctrine, but rather avarice and rebellion against the clergy, that originally fuelled the Protestant Reformation.
A cogent analysis of that titanic sixteenth century upheaval – and of its continuing consequences today.
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Author: Hilaire Belloc
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 978 089555 465 9
224pages
Publisher: Tan Books
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