The Reformation I

The Reformation: one of the greatest ruptures in European history, a rupture that permanently split the church, triggered wars, created new city-states, and even led, in the opinion of many experts, to the Enlightenment, Science, and the secularization of the West. It's such a big deal we’re going to take two whole episodes to examine it—and still only scratch the surface.  How did one man go from a pious local friar in an obscure backwater town to the leader of a global movement that ripped Christianity in two (and then three, then four, and ultimately thousands of Protestant denominations!).  And what is the real legacy of this thing we call The Reformation?

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