Diarmaid MacCulloch Bücher

Gelehrt und erzählerisch leicht führt der Kirchenhistoriker Diarmaid MacCulloch in diesem großen, mehrfach ausgezeichneten Werk durch die revolutionäre Epoche der Reformation. Über die Ereignisse in den einzelnen Ländern hinweg entwirft er eine faszinierende Gesamtschau der politischen, sozialen und mentalitätsgeschichtlichen Prozesse auf dem ganzen europäischen Kontinent. Er beschreibt anschaulich, wie die verschiedensten historischen Ereignisse an den Rändern Europas auf die zentralen Reformationsgeschehnisse einwirkten und wie umgekehrt diese wiederum weitreichende Wirkungen auf das europäische Staatengefüge hatten. Im ersten Teil des Buches nimmt MacCulloch die Reformatoren, ihre Lehren und ihre Gegenspieler in den Blick, während er im zweiten Teil die realpolitischen Folgen der Reformation und Gegenreformation untersucht. Die religiösen, politischen und sozialen Umwälzungen des reformatorischen Zeitalters beendeten das Mittelalter, bereiteten den Weg in die Neuzeit und gaben Europa ein neues Gesicht.

Der Preistrager des Dr. Leopold Lucas-Preises 2019, der britische Theologe und Kirchenhistoriker Diarmaid MacCulloch, ist ein international angesehener Kenner der Reformationszeit. Fur den Kirchenhistoriker ist die Geschichte des Christentums zur Lebensaufgabe geworden. In seinem Festvortrag anlasslich der Verleihung hebt er hervor, dass ihn in seinen Forschungen immer wieder uberraschte, wie wandelbar sich das Christentum durch die Jahrtausende zeigte. MacCullochs Ansatz ist deshalb so bedeutend, weil er die Geschichte der Reformation zwischen 1490 und 1700 nicht als jeweils nationalen, sondern als polyzentrischen, konfessionsubergreifenden Prozess im Europa der Fruhen Neuzeit begreift. Dabei brachten unterschiedliche Krafte eine Modernisierung voran, die zum einen die europaische Gesellschaft bis heute pragt und zum anderen mit der Idee der Gedankenfreiheit die Grundlage der Aufklarung und des modernen Denkens vorwegnahm.

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From a prize-winning author, this book charts the course of Christianity from ancient history onwards.

Tomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the Archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformation--and Henry VIII through the minefields of divorce. Now with a new Introduction, this revised edition of [the author's] monumental, definitive and prize-winning biography transforms our view of Cranmer and of the English Reformation as a whole.

Exploring the origins of the Hebrew Bible, this work delves into the global impact of Christianity, highlighting significant historical turning points. It sheds light on often overlooked narratives of conversion and conflict across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, showcasing the diverse experiences and transformations within the faith. The scholarship is both electrifying and skillfully presented, offering a comprehensive view of Christianity's journey through history.

MacCulloch not only brings a lifetime's learning to bear on his subject, but writes with vigour, empathy and wit ... about identity and memory, about the importance of myths and why historians need to challenge them. Malcolm Gaskill Financial Times

A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel 'A masterpiece' Dan Jones, Sunday Times Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King. That decade was one of the most momentous in English history: it saw a religious break with the Pope, unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution of all monasteries. Cromwell was central to all this, but establishing his role with precision, at a distance of nearly five centuries and after the destruction of many of his papers at his own fall, has been notoriously difficult. Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography is much the most complete and persuasive life ever written of this elusive figure, a masterclass in historical detective work, making connections not previously seen. It overturns many received interpretations, for example that Cromwell was a cynical, 'secular' politician without deep-felt religious commitment, or that he and Anne Boleyn were allies because of their common religious sympathies - in fact he destroyed her. It introduces the many different personalities of these foundational years, all conscious of the 'terrifyingly unpredictable' Henry VIII. MacCulloch allows readers to feel that they are immersed in all this, that it is going on around them. For a time, the self- made 'ruffian' (as he described himself) - ruthless, adept in the exercise of power, quietly determined in religious revolution - was master of events. MacCulloch's biography for the first time reveals his true place in the making of modern England and Ireland, for good and ill.

The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, personal relations - everything - was turned upside down. Just about everything which followed in European history can be traced back in some way to the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation which it provoked. The Reformation is where the modern world painfully and dramatically began, and MacCulloch's great history of it is recognised as the best modern account.

Focusing on one of history's most significant upheavals, the book provides an in-depth exploration of the Reformation, detailing its profound impact on society, religion, and politics. Winner of the 2004 Wolfson Prize for History, it combines scholarly research with engaging narrative, making it accessible to both academic and general readers. Accompanied by a 24-page photo insert, it visually enriches the historical context, enhancing the reader's understanding of this transformative period.