Recultivating the Vineyard: The Reformation Agendas of Christianization Book

Hendrix's work is a survey of the Reformation that offers a synthetic interpretive paradigm: Christianization. Basically, all of the reform movements of the sixteenth century (and beyond) are seen to be united in their goal'a world both with more Christians and with more committed or pure Christians'but divided in their agendas. I find this plausible but a bit lacking in profundity. Certainly we can find commonalities between anything if we move far enough up the ladder of abstraction. It does a decent job with the intentions of the various major actors, but there isn't much more too it than that. A sub-200 page Reformation survey just can't compete with everything else in the field.