Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is noteworthy for its readiness to tread upon questions of morality and metaphysics that most historians…
Has modernity failed?
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
Get over it
In many ways, the argument of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is a familiar one. Gregory aims to explain our modern condition…
Secular supercessionism and alternative modernity
Recent years have seen the resurgence of “metahistories” that seek to provide a single complex narrative of seemingly disparate events…
Conceptualizing pluralism and consensus in the modern Western world
Without pointing out those places where I agree with Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, I would like to add a…
Beyond supersessionist stories?
Brad Gregory’s monumental and erudite book has yielded a wide range of reactions. Highly appreciative remarks (especially from the Catholic…
History without hermeneutics: Brad Gregory’s unintended modernity
I would like to draw attention to three aspects of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, a book whose courage and…
Beyond the Catholic-Protestant divide
The epigraph of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation comes from an essay that Jacques Maritain wrote for the Review of…
A Kingdom that no longer says Whatever
As a scholar working and living in the Netherlands, I apparently live in a state of affairs in which disinterested…
Genre, method, and assumptions
More than 60 reviews of The Unintended Reformation have appeared since January 2012, including forums in four journals (Historically Speaking, Church…
Historical arguments and omissions
A number of the forum reviewers raise objections to various aspects of the historical arguments in The Unintended Reformation. Others…