Was the Reformation Necessary?

RR Reno

The Reformation happened, and for many good reasons, as well as some very bad ones. Luther was right about the abuses of indulgences, for example. And his essentially Augustinian insight into the primacy of grace was surely right as well. But were those and other reasons “enough”?

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/12/03/was-the-reformation-necessary/