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The papacy is ecumenically friendly and has helped establish an innocuous organization, the World Christian Conference. But decades ago, Rome's intransigence about its powers killed off hopes for a grand reunion with Eastern Orthodoxy. Nor do the Protestants show much interest in mergers; unruliness characterizes the Evangelicals, Charismatics and...
All the landmark movements that have shaped the modern era -- from the ocean voyages of Columbus and Magellan to the Protestant Reformation and the print revolution, from the development of the scientific method to the Industrial Revolution -- were largely produced by those hated demons of American multiculturalists, dead white European...
...Protestantism played a subsidiary role in yet another revolution that challenged the church: the emergence of capitalism. By the 14th century the roots of modern banking could be found in northern Italy, where Florence's gold coin (the florin) and Venice's (the ducat) became, in effect, international currencies. But banking and Catholicism were then uneasy partners: the church condemned usury -- defined then as any interest on loans -- in language harsher than bishops today use to denounce contraception. The reformers were more lenient. Gradually Europe's great centers of commerce were established in predominantly Protestant Holland and England. Innovation followed...
Boorstin in many areas seems out of touch with the ever changing fever chart of critical reputations. A chapter on the 19th century English novel, for example, is devoted to Charles Dickens. There is scarcely a word about Anthony Trollope, a writer of smaller genius, perhaps, but whose insightful portrayals...
Throughout American history, newcomers assimilated to this model, despite the doubts and hostility of their hosts. At the turn of the century, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was worried that East European immigrants labored under a "Byzantine" inheritance that would make them inimical to republican rule. Sixty years earlier, Protestant mobs...