We the People/ AD 1600 to AD 1800 / Democracy, Christendom’s Unintended Achievement / Volume Ten of The Christians: Their First Two Thousand Years History Series
The Christians V10 – We the People
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We The People
Volume 10: A.D. 1600 to 1800
Democracy: Christendom’s unintended achievement
The Reformation era ended with the Thirty Years’ War, a civil struggle that devastated most of Germany and much of central Europe. That catastrophe, with a parallel civil war in Britain, demonstrated the impossibility of forcing religious belief on human beings. The idea now slowly developed of religious tolerance under a secular state. That strange concept – central to the new era known as the Enlightenment – would find its first and in many ways finest form in a new nation, born in rebellion and experimentation, across the seas: the United States of America.
(Click on the image below to view a reduced resolution sample chapter drawn from the book so you get a sense of its writing style.)
Chapter One
A Christian convulsion that cost eight million lives and achieved nothing
- The case of the Catholic Puritan
- The Pied Piper of France’s courtly ladies
Chapter Two
A fight for power pits king against Parliament, and Charles I perishes
- The fifty-year flop of a literary jewel
- Reason and faith, united in verse
- As all went dark, he saw the light
Chapter Three
Mighty Cromwell fails, and so do the Stuarts, but Parliament prevails
- The idea behind two revolutions
- A book that astonished the world
Chapter Four
American democracy: the unintended destiny of the Founding Fathers
- The night they wiped out Deerfield
- The ethnic cleansing of French Acadia
- The grim fate of the Black Robe vision
Chapter Five
A tyrannous reform paves Russia’s way to a state-run church
- The devastation of the Jesuits
- Orthodoxy’s renegade defenders
Chapter Six
Its walls are smashed, the Turks pouring in, but Vienna is saved
- The man who was France
Chapter Seven
The riveting preacher who brought to Christ men with dirty faces
Chapter Eight
How thirteen colonies created a nation that no one quite foresaw
- The clause invoed to silence faith
- The transatlantic trade in people
Chapter Nine
Skeptics fight the faith, but the faithful reply in hymns and oratorios
Chapter Ten
With Islam thwarted, Christendom now faces a new foe from within
- Does nature point the way to God?
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Weight | 3 oz |
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Dimensions | 1 × 9 × 12 in |