All Things Made New by Diarmaid Macculloch
As we approach five-hundredth anniversary of the momentous events which triggered the European Reformation, the author gathers together essays introducing not only the Reformation in its widest impact across Europe, but also the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the special evolution of religion in England.
MacCulloch is an eminent professor of history at the University of Oxford, and not only brings a lifetime's learning to bear on his subject, but writes with vigour, empathy and wit.. not narrowly about religion, but broadly about identity and memory, about the importance of myths and why historians need to challenge them. -- Malcolm Gaskill * Financial Times *
All Things Made New is a serious book on a serious subject. It is written with elegance and sometimes donnish wit, but it is very far from being a book for specialists. As the author says, he aims to "reflect on scholarship and interpret it for a wider audience", and he wears his learning pretty lightly in a miscellany of essays covering the European and English Reformations. -- Robert Tombs * The Times *
Dazzling ... prodigiously learned ... MacCulloch has a gift for explaining complicated things simply. -- Jack Scarisbrick * Catholic Herald *
MacCulloch is ... able to write authoritatively and engagingly on a remarkably diverse range of topics in the history of Christian culture and thought. ... MacCulloch is too incisive and astringent a commentator to spout pieties. No Anglian or other Christian reading these essays is likely to be left in a condition of complacent satisfaction. -- Peter Marshall * Literary Review *
All Things Made New is a serious book on a serious subject. It is written with elegance and sometimes donnish wit, but it is very far from being a book for specialists. As the author says, he aims to "reflect on scholarship and interpret it for a wider audience", and he wears his learning pretty lightly in a miscellany of essays covering the European and English Reformations. -- Robert Tombs * The Times *
Dazzling ... prodigiously learned ... MacCulloch has a gift for explaining complicated things simply. -- Jack Scarisbrick * Catholic Herald *
MacCulloch is ... able to write authoritatively and engagingly on a remarkably diverse range of topics in the history of Christian culture and thought. ... MacCulloch is too incisive and astringent a commentator to spout pieties. No Anglian or other Christian reading these essays is likely to be left in a condition of complacent satisfaction. -- Peter Marshall * Literary Review *
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize; Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (2004) won the Wolfson Prize and the British Academy Prize. A History of Christianity (2010), which was adapted into a six-part BBC television series, was awarded the Cundill and Hessel-Tiltman Prizes. His Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh were published in 2013 as Silence: A Christian History. His most recent television series (2015) was Sex and the Church. He was knighted in 2012.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241254004 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241254000 |
| Title | All Things Made New |
| Author | Diarmaid Macculloch |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
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