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The most deep characteristic of European Europe in the Middle Age range was its ethnic and spiritual unity, a unity guaranteed by the common alignment with the Pope in Rome and one common terminology - Latin - for worship and scholarship or grant. The Reformation shattered that unity, and the results are still with us today. In All Things Made New, Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of the New York Times best seller Christianity: The First Three Thousands of Years, examines not only the Reformation's impact across Europe but also the Catholic Counter-Reformation and the special progression of religious beliefs in England, exposing how one of the most turbulent, bloody, and transformational events in Western record has shaped modern society. The Reformation may have launched a communal revolution, MacCulloch argues, but it was not caused by communal and economic makes or even by the secular idea like nationalism; it sprang from a big idea about fatality, salvation, and the afterlife. This notion - that salvation was completely in God's hands and there is nothing humans could do to improve his decision - finished the Catholic Church's monopoly in Europe and modified the trajectory of the entire future of the Western world. By turns passionate, funny, meditative, and subversive, All Things Made New can take listeners onto interesting new ground, exploring the original conflicts of the Reformation and cutting through prejudices that continue steadily to distort popular conceptions of a religious divide still with us after five centuries. This monumental work, in one of the most recognized scholars of Christianity writing today, explores the ways that historians have advised the story of the Reformation, why their interpretations have altered so dramatically over time, and ultimately the way the contested legacy of the revolution is constantly on the impact the earth today.
