Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . movement comes about without a long period ofpreparation. The seeds for the present religious upheavaland indifference in Italy were sown many centuries , they began to grow as far back as the second andthird century when vital religion was gradually transformedinto a system of externals and when salvation was basedupon what one did rather than upon what one was. TheRenaissance broke the backbone of authority and theReformation set up the ideal of real religion. Italy wouldhave taken an active part in the Reform
Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . movement comes about without a long period ofpreparation. The seeds for the present religious upheavaland indifference in Italy were sown many centuries , they began to grow as far back as the second andthird century when vital religion was gradually transformedinto a system of externals and when salvation was basedupon what one did rather than upon what one was. TheRenaissance broke the backbone of authority and theReformation set up the ideal of real religion. Italy wouldhave taken an active part in the Reformation had therebeen any power whatsoever that could protect those whowished to follow Christ according to the teaching of theScripture. Germany had her princes; Switzerland had herCanton rulers, while England had her Cromwell, and Hol-land, her William the Silent. Italy had no outstanding in-surgent leaders to arrest the terror of the Spanish and Ital-ian Inquisition. The Roman Church was able to root out socompletely the heretical representatives that outside of the.
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