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Excerpt from A Sketch of the History of Judaism and Christianity: In the Light of Modern Research and Criticism
Mediaavalism, the growth of the autocratic papacy, the formation of the monastic orders, the grasping of temporal power by popes and bishops, their struggle with emperors and kings, have still for the serious reader their lessons and import. The scholastic theology of the Middle Ages, a remarkable attempt to be logical, superseded the less systematic expositions and treatises of earlier times; while here and there voices were heard, such as those of Abelard, Roger Bacon, Russ, and Wyclif, which portended the coming of great convulsions of thought and practice. When we are fairly started on the modern period, the interest of the Reformation and its antagonistic influences grows tremendous. Our space has not enabled us to do full justice to the causes which led to the establishment of the Protestant Churches and the limitation of the grip of the Church of Rome upon the world. In a' future volume the writer hopes to give more fully the course and results of the great Reformation of religion in modern times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
