English
Catholic Historians and the English Reformation 1585 -1954
John Vidmar, OP
Historians of the English Reformation
who have focused primarily on political, materialistic, or societal
causes have largely missed the point, says Vidmar, an American
historian of the Catholic Church in particular but religion in
general: these were the effects on the people of England, but
what caused the Reformation, drove it, and gave it its main direction
was religion. He looks at Catholic historians of the event during
the period between the first—Nicholas Sander's Rise
and Growth of the Anglican Schism—to the last truly
Ultramontanist history—Philip Hughes' The Reformation
in England. In the evolution of their work he points out
patterns and directions of thought that would otherwise look
like unrelated moments in Catholic thinking. Distributed in the
US by ISBS. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland,
OR
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