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Showing posts with label Diarmaid MacCulloch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diarmaid MacCulloch. Show all posts
Thursday, January 14, 2021

What the 10th Century 'Peace of God' Movement can teach us about our country's embrace of political partisanship and violence

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Rapid economic change in 10th Century Western Europe led to instability, which created fertile ground for those with power to press their cl...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

How the Pope became popular among Evangelicals

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The title alone seems like a crazy thought; it least it would have only a generation or two ago.  Having just finished Diarmaid MacCulloch...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Caught between two worlds

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One of the fascinating thing about study history is the chance to see patterns emerge that may lend insight into the world we live in today....
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Lenten thoughts on peace among Christians

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As we begin today the season of Lent we are reminded of the wide variety of Christian practice here in the United States.  We are not separa...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The workings of the Holy Spirit

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In the mid-fourteenth century the Eastern Orthodox Church was convulsed by a dispute about the whether or not a style of mystical prayer kno...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Ancient Words Ever True...

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I was listening to the song Ancient Words in the office today, considering the words of Peter in Acts 4, and pondering the book, The Reforma...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

A History Lesson: How NOT to run a Church

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This nugget of wisdom also comes from Diarmaid MacCulloch's The Reformation but isn't one that very many people will know already. ...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The Plot Thickens...or...The More You Learn, the More There is to Learn.

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One of the things I love about a good thick book on a subject I already know about is the chance to learn new things and see things in a new...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The Word of God in the hands of the people

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In Diarmaid MacCulloch's superb book "The Reformation" there is a profound observation that comes originally from Bernard Cott...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

"take hold of the hope offered to us" - Hebrews 6:18

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Something I was reading in the book, "The Reformation", by Diarmaid MacCulloch reminded me of this verse from Hebrews that we'...