|
Books > Biography > Religious & spiritual
|
Buy Now
Thomas Cranmer - A Life (Paperback, Revised edition)
Loot Price: R687
Discovery Miles 6 870
|
|
|
Thomas Cranmer - A Life (Paperback, Revised edition)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Thomas 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. This is the first major biography of him for more than
three decades, and the first for a century to exploit rich new
manuscript sources in Britain and elsewhere. Diarmaid MacCulloch,
one of the foremost scholars of the English Reformation, traces
Cranmer from his east-Midland roots through his twenty-year career
as a conventionally conservative Cambridge don. He shows how
Cranmer was recruited to the coterie around Henry VIII that was
trying to annul the royal marriage to Catherine, and how new
connections led him to embrace the evangelical faith of the
European Reformation and, ultimately, to become archbishop of
Canterbury. By then a major English statesman, living the life of a
medieval prince-bishop, Cranmer guided the church through the
king's vacillations and finalized two successive versions of the
English prayer book. MacCulloch skillfully reconstructs the crises
Cranmer negotiated, from his compromising association with three of
Henry's divorces, the plot by religious conservatives to oust him,
and his role in the attempt to establish Lady Jane Grey as queen to
the vengeance of the Catholic Mary Tudor. In jail after Mary's
accession, Cranmer nearly repudiated his achievements, but he found
the courage to turn the day of his death into a dramatic
demonstration of his Protestant faith. From this vivid account
Cranmer emerges a more sharply focused figure than before, more
conservative early in his career than admirers have allowed, more
evangelical than Anglicanism would later find comfortable. A
hesitant hero with a tangled life story, his imperishable legacy is
his contribution in the prayer book to the shape and structure of
English speech and through this to the molding of an international
language and the theology it expressed.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
