Research Catalog

Title

All things made new : writings on the Reformation / Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Author

MacCulloch, Diarmaid

Publication

• UK : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xiv, 450 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language - Latin - for worship and scholarship. The Reformation shattered that unity, and the consequences are still with us today. In All Things Made New, Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of the New York Times bestseller Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, examines not only the Reformation's impact across Europe, but also the Catholic Counter-Reformation and the special evolution of religion in England, revealing how one of the most turbulent, bloody, and transformational events in Western history has shaped modern society. The Reformation may have launched a social revolution, MacCulloch argues, but it was not caused by social and economic forces, or even by a secular idea like nationalism; it sprang from a big idea about death, salvation, and the afterlife. This idea -- that salvation was entirely in God's hands and there was nothing humans could do to alter his decision - ended the Catholic Church's monopoly in Europe and altered the trajectory of the entire future of the West. By turns passionate, funny, meditative, and subversive, All Things Made New takes readers onto fascinating new ground, exploring the original conflicts of the Reformation and cutting through prejudices that continue to distort popular conceptions of a religious divide still with us after five centuries. This monumental work, from one of the most distinguished scholars of Christianity writing today, explores the ways in which historians have told the tale of the Reformation, why their interpretations have changed so dramatically over time, and ultimately, how the contested legacy of this revolution continues to impact the world today. -- Description from the Oxford University Press edition.

Subject

• Reformation > England
• Reformation
• England > Church history > 16th century
• England

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-434) and index.

Contents

Introduction : All things made new -- Part I. Reformations across Europe : -- 1. Christianity : the bigger picture -- 2. Angels and the Reformation -- 3. The Virgin Mary and the Protestant reformers -- 4. John Calvin -- 5. The Council of Trent -- 6. The Italian Reformation -- Part II. The English Reformation : -- 7. Tudor royal image-making -- 8. Henry VIII : pious king -- 9. Tolerant Cranmer? -- 10. The making of the Prayer Book -- 11. Tudor queens : Mary and Elizabeth -- 12. William Byrd -- 13. The Bible before King James -- 14. The King James Bible -- 15. The Bay Psalm Book -- Part III. Looking Back on the English Reformation : -- 16. Putting the English Reformation on the map -- 17. The latitude of the Church of England -- 18. Modern historians on the English Reformation -- 19. Thomas Cranmer's biographers -- 20. Richard Hooker's reputation -- 21. Forging Reformation history : a cautionary tale -- 22. And finally : the nature of Anglicanism

Call Number

JFE 16-9724

ISBN

• 0241254000
• 9780241254004

OCLC

934606575

Author

MacCulloch, Diarmaid, author.

Title

All things made new : writings on the Reformation / Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Publisher

UK : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-434) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-9724