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Title: Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 0-300-07448-4 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Flawed Saint of the Church
Comment: MacCulloch's book provides access to the singularly foundational figure of the reformation in England. Most who recognize Cranmer's name at all know him only as the author of the first Prayer Book or the man who attained Henry VIII's annulment from Catherine. MacCullogh gives depth to Cranmer as a flawed yet faithful agent of the Church, one who sought with conviction the reformation of the Church of England but was also willing to slavishly follow his prince in order to achieve that reformation. The final chapter, chronicling Cranmer's fall and ultimate martyrdom, reads with the pace of a good novel. For Episcopalians and others with an affinity for the Anglican tradition, insight into Cranmer's life and thought is crucial, and MacCulloch presents that insight with skill.
Rating: 5
Summary: MacCulloch on Thomas Cranmer is a masterpiece
Comment: Exquisely researched and engagingly written, Diarmaid MacCulloch brought to life a figure who played a substantial role in both English and church history during the Reformation, and whose legacy lives on. I feel that for the first time in more than 30 years of bumping into Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury, and of regularly using the Book of Common Prayer that he master-minded, I have properly met the man. MacCulloch obviously adores Cranmer, but is not blind to his shortcomings. He also shows the cost to Cranmer of bringing about fundamental change in the English Church -- ultimately losing his life. I came away from the book marveling at the richness and stature of the Anglican way of believing, and the part Cranmer played in making it happen. I have been heralding it from the housetops! Like all good books, I was sorry when it ended.
Rating: 1
Summary: Misleading information on Cranmer's theology--rubbish.
Comment: MacCulloch seeks to present Archbishop Cranmer as a radical protestant with little scholarly interest or knowledge of the early church, and also that the "via media" of Anglicanism that resulted from the English Reformation was contrary to Cranmer's radical protestant beliefs and is a "myth." While MacCulloch may have written a biography he failed to examine the source of Cranmer's beliefs and theology. MacCulloch claims that Cranmer's eucharistic theology stems from the Swiss Reformed tradition: one had only to read Basil Hall's essay in "Thomas Cranmer: Churchman and Scholar" edited by Ayris and Selwyn to see that this is demonstrably false. Cranmer was heavily influenced by Lutheranism as well as by the "exposition of the most holy and learned fathers and martyrs" of "the holy catholic church of Christ from the beginning" (Cranmer's words) and as such his theology clearly stands in the same line as that of Richard Hooker and Lancelot Andrewes. This sort of "scholarship" with an obvious ax to grind is perhaps the worst sort. If you want to know Cranmer's views on the Sacraments (as most Anglicans or scholars of the Reformation do) please read him in his own words in "A Defense of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ" (if you can find a copy in the library) or in "Thomas Cranmer: Churchman and Scholar."
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Title: The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 0670032964 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, C.1400-C.1580 by Eamon Duffy ISBN: 0300060769 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 0312238304 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603 (British History in Perspective) by Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 0333921399 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 10 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Thomas Cranmer: Churchman and Scholar by Paul Ayris, David Selwyn ISBN: 0851157408 Publisher: Boydell Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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