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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Archbishop Chaput reviews Gregory's "Unintended Reformation"

By Rick Garnett

At Public Discourse (link).  The review is called "Life in the Kingdom of Whatever" and, unlike some reviews of and reactions to Prof. Gregory's book that I've read, it reflects clearly the author's effort to identify correctly and engage closely the author's arguments.

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I bought a copy of "The Unintended Reformation" a few weeks ago and look forward to reading it less now that I have read Archbishop Chaput's review. It sounds like the subtitle might rather have been "How the Catholic Church Lost Control over Human Thought and Everything Else Important." As I remarked elsewhere, Archbishop Chaput seems to blame the Reformation for the poor choices Catholics are allegedly faced with in today's election, but it seems to me there would be no United States of American had it not been for the Reformation and the Enlightenment.

Perhaps some Catholic author of fiction who laments the Reformation and the Enlightenment should write an alternate history in which they never happened to show us how much better off we would all be.