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Article: The Reformation World.(Review) (book review)
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- July 1, 2000
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The Reformation World ed. Andrew Pettegree. Routledge 20.00 [pounds sterling] xv + 576 pp. ISBN 0-415-16357-9
THE EUROPEAN REFORMATIONS of the sixteenth century were decisive in creating modern Western identity. They tore apart a unified Latin culture which had embraced lands stretching from Tralee to Temesvar, from Stavanger to Sicily. The Reformations turned the label 'Catholic' into a tribal term, signifying exclusive loyalty to the Bishop of Rome, when once it had meant 'universal', and they created a new word, 'Protestant', which itself embraced a multitude of tribes. Lutherans often came to loathe Calvinists more than they did Catholics; nearly everyone ...