Reformation Myths: Five Centuries of Misconceptions and (Some) Misfortunes Paperback – Unabridged, 17 Aug. 2017

This is the most thought-provoking and readable book I have read for some time. It challenges many views of history I had assumed were true and provides good evidence about the results of the Reformation. If you are interested in religion or history, this book is well worth reading.

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Very well-researched and intelligently written, this book unveils some interesting insights into the Reformation and its outcome, although it is undoubtedly coloured by the Roman Catholic viewpoint of its author. He treats the Reformation's leaders with respect but does, in my opinion, downplay the value of the teachings of Luther, Calvin and other leaders contemporary with them. This is certainly a book worth reading and thinking about, by Protestants in particular, although it should be balanced by reading other assessments of the Reformation and its fruits.

Useful corrective to some of the glib generalisations about the reformation and protestantism, though I don't entirely buy his analysis that Islam is philosophically antipathetic to scientific endeavour as that it refuted by the flowering of such in the early caliphates, and it neglects the diversity of the reformation including the Anabaptist and Catholic Reformations.

Unbalanced and lacking academic research to enable the reader to form an informed view of the developments in the period described. A great opportunity missed owing to poor research and any new material, almost childlike in its presentation.