Ebook {Epub PDF} The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. He is the author of Thomas Cranmer, winner of the Whitbread Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize; Christianity, a New York Times bestseller that won the Cundill Prize in History and was chosen by The New Yorker and The New York Times as /5(4).  · Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. He is the author of Thomas Cranmer, winner of the Whitbread Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize; Christianity, a New York Times bestseller that won the Cundill Prize in History and was chosen by The New Yorker and The New York Times as a Best Book of the Year; and Silence: A Brand: Penguin Publishing Group. In this masterful history, Diarmaid MacCulloch conveys the drama, complexity, and continuing relevance of these events. He offers vivid portraits of the most significant individuals—Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Loyola, Henry VIII, and a number of popes—but also conveys why their ideas were so powerful and how the Reformation affected everyday /5().

Diarmaid MacCulloch is an excellent writer and story teller. I highly recommend this book for it's broad coverage of the reformation. Throughout the book, the reformation is viewed as a theological power struggle that often involved preoccupations with rules that people wanted, not rules that always made rational sense. The Reformation: a History. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. Introduction. How are these terms defined: Catholic Protestant Evangelical Reformation. What are the subjects of the third section of The Reformation? Chapter 1" The Old Church, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Author. Viking $ (p) ISBN More than a history of the Reformation, MacCulloch's study examines its legacy of individual religious authority and.

The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch. 2, ratings, average rating, reviews. The Reformation Quotes Showing of “The end of toleration in left a legacy of bitterness and instability in France, for it failed to destroy the Huguenots, while encouraging an arrogance and exclusiveness within the established Catholic Church. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning. At a time when men and women were prepared to kill-and be killed-for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning history brilliantly recreates the religious battles of. priests, monarchs, scholars, and politicians-from the zealous Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses to the polemical John Calvin to the radical Igantius Loyola, from the tortured Thomas Cranmer to.