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Diarmaid MacCulloch
Diarmaid MacCulloch is the author of The Reformation, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Wolfson Prize, and the British Academy Prize, and of Thomas Cranmer, winner of the Whitbread Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize. Professor of the History of the... show more

Diarmaid MacCulloch is the author of The Reformation, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Wolfson Prize, and the British Academy Prize, and of Thomas Cranmer, winner of the Whitbread Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize. Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University, he was brought up in a country rectory in East Anglia.
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Birth date: October 31, 1951
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Themis-Athena's Garden of Books
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books rated it 5 years ago
Expansion into a full review to come (if I find the time), but for the moment: If you even have the slightest interest in Tudor history and politics, run, don't walk to get this book. And for a special treat, also get the audio version narrated by David Rintoul. This is an intense, fact-packed r...
Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 8 years ago
Christianity is complex. After having had read this book two years earlier, I had to reread this book in order to understand why I didn't understand it the first time I read it. The first time I had read this book I was trying to make sense of the Trinity and how it developed and caused differenti...
Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 11 years ago
I have no background in the subject matter and found the book incredibly difficult to follow since he's constantly throwing out terms that are new to me. Soon as I understood one theological school of thought he'd throw another one at the listener, and by that time I would be completely confused and...
Never Read Passively
Never Read Passively rated it 13 years ago
This book should have been called Christianity: A Speculative History from a Somewhat Antagonistic Viewpoint. I only read the first 150 pages, plenty far enough to understand how MacCulloch feels about Christianity. Most of the book is, by nature, extrapolation based on a very fragmented set of docu...
Carlo
Carlo rated it 13 years ago
I'm watching the BBC documentary of this book and it is quite good. I got a good offer of it on Audible with a whopping 46,5 hours!
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