Luther and His Progeny: 500 Years of Protestantism and Its Consequences for Church, State, and Society

by John C Rao, John C Rao (Editor)

Overview

With essays from John Rao, Chris Ferrara, Brian McCall, and eight others, Luther and His Progeny is a signal contribution toward understanding the full import of the Protestant revolt, and the best guide available for Catholics to the meaning of Luther's decisive break.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621382546
Publisher:	Angelico Press
Publication date:	03/24/2017
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John C. Rao obtained his doctorate in Modern European History from Oxford University in 1977. He worked in 1978-1979 as Eastern Director of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Bryn Mawr, PA, and is now Associate Professor of European History at St. John's University in New York City, where he has taught since 1979. Dr. Rao is also director of the Roman Forum, a Catholic cultural organization founded by the late Professor Dietrich von Hildebrand in 1968. He writes for numerous French, German, Spanish, and Italian journals. Perhaps the most important of his works are Americanism and the Collapse of the Church in the United States (Roman Forum Press, 1995), Black Legends and the Light of the World (Remnant Press, 2012), and Removing the Blindfold (The Angelus Press, 2014), a discussion of Catholics rediscovering their own heritage in the post-French revolutionary era.

Table of Contents

c o n t e n t s



Introduction: Half a Millennium of Total Depravity (1517–2017) 1



John C. Rao: A Necessary Reform, Depraved From Birth 5



Thomas H. Stark: Man as Victim of a Divine Tyrant: Luther’s “Theology” of a Self-Contradicting God 25



Sebastian Morello: The Northern Renaissance and the Protestant Revolt 39



Miguel Ayuso: The Protestant Matrix for Modern Politics and Rights 67



John C. Rao: From Man’s Total Depravity to the Triumph of the Human Will: Religious Disunity and the Birth of Pragmatic



Christianity 93



Christopher A. Ferrara: Luther’s Disembodied Grace and the Graceless Body Politic 115



Rev. Richard A. Munkelt: Religious Evolution and Revolution in the Triumph of Homo Economicus 143



Brian M. McCall: The New Protestant Bargain: The Influence of Protestant Theology on Contract and Property Law 175



Rev. Brian Muzas: STEM and the Reformation: Astronomy, Metallurgy, and Economics 197



Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro-Carámbula: Negative Liberty, Protestantism, and the War on Nature 217



Fr. John Hunwicke: Multiple Anti-Semitisms in Luther, Lutheranism and Bergoglio 241



Clemens Cavallin: Sweden and the Five Hundred Year Reformation Anamnesis: A Catholic Perspective 255



About the Contributors 277