Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Part 6 (1300 – 1800)

faith-and-doubt

• He had accepted his total sinfulness. This gave him a paradoxical sense of his own rightness — if the Pope opposed him, the Pope must be God's enemy.

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obedience-and-authority

• Luther's defiance of authority seemed a sign that all authority was collapsing in God's final judgement — the Last Days had arrived.

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• 'Paris is worth a Mass' encapsulates weary rejection of rigid religious principle after seventy years of warfare across Europe.

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belonging

• To opt in to baptism as an adult was to split the wholeness of community into believers and non-believers, ending Christendom's assumption that all society was the Church.

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• Rogers covenanted with his people to separate out from the world's temptations — an enduring image that powered the Massachusetts venture.

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• The Awakenings enjoyed huge success among enslaved people, forging a common Protestant heritage that would considerably affect American politics.

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