Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment
…radicalism of non-Catholic groups like the Cathars and Bogomils (extinct by 1515) or the Waldensians (who were not). And while preachers every bit as fiery as Luther had preached against the Church from the middle ages to the Court Demographer’s current day, what had figures like Joachim of Fiora or Savonarola come to? So it would seem unlikely that this prognosticator could see Luther and the five centuries which resulted. We have to ask: what ne…
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