Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor

Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
by Eamon Duffy

Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
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Author: Eamon Duffy
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-15
ISBN: 0300152167
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Yale University Press

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Book Review: Fires Of Faith: A Welcome Reappraisal
Summary: 5 Stars

Eamon Duffy's "Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor" is a very welcome addition to the ongoing reassessment of the English Reformation that he begain with his "The Stripping of the Altars". The subject is important because it sets the stage for any study of Christianity in the English speaking world. For Christians intersted in a real unity it is important to put to rest the polemics and myths embraced by competing communities and explore the possibility that the Reformation and Counter-Reformation deformed a common ancestor to both the Catholic and Protestant communities.

Summary of Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor

The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their religious beliefs seared the rule of ?Bloody Mary? into the protestant imagination as an alien aberration in the onward and upward march of the English-speaking peoples.

In this controversial reassessment, the renowned reformation historian Eamon Duffy argues that Mary's regime was neither inept nor backward looking. Led by the queen's cousin, Cardinal Reginald Pole, Mary?s church dramatically reversed the religious revolution imposed under the child king Edward VI. Inspired by the values of the European Counter-Reformation, the cardinal and the queen reinstated the papacy and launched an effective propaganda campaign through pulpit and press.

Even the most notorious aspect of the regime, the burnings, proved devastatingly effective. Only the death of the childless queen and her cardinal on the same day in November 1558 brought the protestant Elizabeth to the throne, thereby changing the course of English history. (20100101)

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