Choosing Luther and Calvin instead of the spiritual reformers who were their contemporaries, Protestant Europe got the kind of theology it liked. But it also got, along with other unanticipated by-products, the Thirty Years’ War, capitalism and the first rudiments of modern Germany. “If we wish,” Dean Inge has recently written, “to find a scapegoat on whose shoulders we may lay the miseries which Germany has brought upon the world… I am more and more convinced that the worst evil genius of that country is not Hitler or Bismarck or Frederick the Great, but Martin Luther… It (Lutheranism)
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