The Reformation: A Complete History of Protestantism
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The Reformation: A Complete History of Protestantism
69.99 €
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation represented the greatest upheavals in Western society since the collapse of the Roman Empire a millennium earlier. The effects of those cataclysmic events are still felt today, from the bitter divisions between and within Catholic and Protestant countries to the Protestant ideology that rules the United States, a country that claims to be the world's only superpower. The Western world was torn apart. Men and women were willing to kill and be killed for their faith. Priests, monarchs, scholars and politicians, ordinary citizens and peasants were caught up in an epochal struggle that changed Europe forever. The story of these dramatic upheavals and their impact on everyday life, when all ideas about love, sex, death and the sacred were forever turned upside down and the principles that define all of European modernity were laid down, is set out in this fundamental work, prepared by the famous English historian for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation that swept Europe and the New World. Diarmaid MacCulloch, perhaps like no one else, reveals this historical period on such a grand scale.
Diarmaid MacCulloch (b. 1951) is one of the leading British historians of Christianity, the author of a number of books and articles, including Christianity: Three Thousand Years, the first comprehensive history of Christianity written in the 21st century and translated into Russian. An Oxford professor, he came from a priestly family. In 1988 he was ordained a deacon, but later left the Church, continuing his path as a secular scholar and church historian.
Diarmaid MacCulloch (b. 1951) is one of the leading British historians of Christianity, the author of a number of books and articles, including Christianity: Three Thousand Years, the first comprehensive history of Christianity written in the 21st century and translated into Russian. An Oxford professor, he came from a priestly family. In 1988 he was ordained a deacon, but later left the Church, continuing his path as a secular scholar and church historian.
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