Reformation divided : Catholics, Protestants and the conversion of England
Duffy, Eamon2017
Books, Manuscripts
This title explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the 16th and 17th centuries. The religious revolution initiated by Martin Luther is usually referred to as 'The Reformation', a tendentious description implying that the shattering of the medieval religious foundations of Europe was a single process, in which a defective form of Christianity was replaced by one that was unequivocally benign, 'the midwife of the modern world'. Here, these assumptions are challenged by tracing the ways in which the project of reforming Christendom from within, initiated by Christian 'humanists' like Erasmus and Thomas More, broke apart into conflicting and often murderous energies and ideologies, dividing not only Catholic from Protestant, but creating deep internal rifts within all the churches which emerged from Europe's religious conflicts.
Main title:
Author:
Duffy, Eamon, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Collation:
vi, 441 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781472934369 (hbk)
Dewey class:
274.206274.206 DUF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2453605