The Nation

Calvinism’s Discontents

Calvin in Hell, Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger (c.1700–10). (Photo by Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) “To understand Liberalism, we need to understand early modern Calvinism.” ...
National Catholic Register

Catholic England on the Eve of Destruction by the English Reformation

The typical tale told by Protestant apologists is that the Catholic Church in England at the end of the Middle Ages was all but dead. The people longed for a simple, Bible-based religion free of all ...
National Catholic Register

Did Papal Visit Signal an End to the English Reformation?

A week after Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Scotland and England and its historical significance is still reverberating. The first state visit by a Pope to Britain was remarkable in many different ways, ...
Hyperallergic

How a Rare Judas Painting Survived the 16th-Century English Reformation

Unknown artist, “The Kiss of Judas,” c. 1460 (image via HKI Institute/The Fitzwilliam Museum, Image Library) During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an ...
The Conversation

It’s Remain not Leave that captures the independent spirit of the Reformation

Diarmaid MacCulloch does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These 17th-Century Poems Painted Pictures on the Page—and Defied the Church of England’s Rejection of Religious Images

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.
The Economist

The English were surprisingly divided about the break with Rome

Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. By Peter Marshall. Yale University Press; 652 pages; £30. To be published in America in June, $40. JUST a day after the English Book of ...