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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Timely and fantastic
This book is one of the best books about religion and about the Protestant Reformation that I've ever read. Simpson shows that, far from being the source of liberalism, the Protestant move to vernacular Bibles created self-hatred, dogmatism, and persecution. His portrait of Thomas More is counterintuitive and fascinating.
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10 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Poor Scholarship
The scholarship is poor. The writer does not do a good job of placing Luther or the Protestant reformers in the context of their times, does not seem to understand the significance of Catholic penitentialism or philosphic nominalism in the development of Protestant theology. His theorizing about "textual hatred" is specious.
Published on June 19, 2008 by Paul A. Spengler
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Timely and fantastic,
This review is from: Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents (Paperback)
This book is one of the best books about religion and about the Protestant Reformation that I've ever read. Simpson shows that, far from being the source of liberalism, the Protestant move to vernacular Bibles created self-hatred, dogmatism, and persecution. His portrait of Thomas More is counterintuitive and fascinating.
10 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents (Hardcover)
The scholarship is poor. The writer does not do a good job of placing Luther or the Protestant reformers in the context of their times, does not seem to understand the significance of Catholic penitentialism or philosphic nominalism in the development of Protestant theology. His theorizing about "textual hatred" is specious.
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Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents by James Simpson (Hardcover - November 23, 2007)
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