Diarmaid MacCulloch is a fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford, and professor of the history of the church at Oxford University. His books include Suffolk and the Tudors, winner of the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize, and Thomas Cranmer: A Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize. A former Anglican deacon, he has presented many highly celebrated documentaries for television and radio, and was knighted in 2012 for his services to scholarship. He lives in Oxford, England.
"A landmark contribution ... It is difficult to imagine a more
comprehensive and surprisingly accessible volume than
MacCulloch's."
-Jon Meacham, The New York Times Book Review "A well-informed and -
bless the man - witty narrative guaranteed to please and at the
same time displease every single reader, if hardly in identical
measure.... The author's prose style is fluent, well-judged and
wholly free of cant ... You will shut this large book with
gratitude for a long and stimulating journey."
-The Washington Times "A prodigious, thrilling, masterclass of a
history book. MacCulloch is to be congratulated for his accessible
handling of so much complex, difficult material ... He keeps the
reader engaged with wit and choice anecdotes and throughout the
entire book he retains his own distinctive, slightly irreverent
perspective, and an unerring instinct for when to go from macro to
micro history."
-John Cornwell, Financial Times "He brings an insider's wit to
tracing the fate of official Christianity in an age of doubt, and
to addressing modern surges of zeal, from Mormons to
Pentecostals."
-Economist "A triumphantly executed achievement. This book is a
landmark in its field, astonishing in its range, compulsively
readable, full of insight even for the most jaded professional and
of illumination for the interested general reader. It will have
few, if any, rivals in the English language."
-Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury "Christianity is a tour
de force: it has enormous range, is gracefully and wittily written,
and from page one holds the attention. Everyone who reads it will
learn things they didn't know."
-Eamon Duffy, author of Saints and Sinners "The great strength of
the book is that it covers, in sufficient but not oppressive
detail, huge areas of Christian history which are dealt with
cursorily in traditional accounts of the subject and are unfamiliar
to most English-speaking readers ... His analysis of why
Christianity has taken root in Korea but made such a hash in India
is perceptive and his account of the nineteenth-century missions in
Africa and the Pacific is first-rate and full of insight."
-Paul Johnson, author of The Quest for God
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