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Reformation Divided - Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England (Hardcover)
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Reformation Divided - Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England (Hardcover)
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Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517,
Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the
cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the
sixteenth and seventeenth 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'. The book challenges these assumptions 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. The book is in three parts: In
'Thomas More and Heresy', Duffy examines how and why England's
greatest humanist apparently abandoned the tolerant humanism of his
youthful masterpiece Utopia, and became the bitterest opponent of
the early Protestant movement. 'Counter-Reformation England'
explores the ways in which post-Reformation English Catholics
accommodated themselves to a complex new identity as persecuted
religious dissidents within their own country, but in a European
context, active participants in the global renewal of the Catholic
Church. The book's final section 'The Godly and the Conversion of
England' considers the ideals and difficulties of radical reformers
attempting to transform the conventional Protestantism of
post-Reformation England into something more ardent and committed.
In addressing these subjects, Duffy shines new light on the
fratricidal ideological conflicts which lasted for more than a
century, and whose legacy continues to shape the modern world.
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