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expositions-1458	none	Gregory, Brad S. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. 574 pp, hb $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-04563-7.	2012	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3220	96	32	Gregory’s relatively sympathetic treatment of the intentions of Luther, Calvin, et al. distinguishes his account from the trope employed by Catholic opponents in the first few centuries following the Reformation break, namely, that of ascribing intellectual or moral defects to the Reformers.5 However, the overarching narrative of the book does fit into another well-established, if more generous and modern, category of counter-Reformation critique: the notion that Protestant valorization of private judgment (as regards matters of scriptural interpretation and church doctrine) and predilection towards schism would extend past the inner-ecclesial intentions (however noble) of the reformers, and would in fact come to undermine the common structures of society as a whole. Indeed, the fact that the Reformation was to a certain degree justified is central to Gregory’s argument.	cache/expositions-1458.pdf	txt/expositions-1458.txt