![]() ![]() Peter’s Basilica were repaid by the selling of indulgences, he remarks: “We who in the recent past have been victimized by a great conspiracy of bankers may be tempted to regard as the underlying villains in this deal. Protestant reformer John Calvin, he says, “was one tightly wound dude,” and discussing the role of the Fuggers, the bankers whose loans to build St. His tangled path to radicalism is one of the interesting threads in Cahill’s story.Ĭahill is not your detached, stand-back style of historian. It might come as a surprise, for example, to learn that Luther did not nail 97 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, but instead addressed them, “in a diplomatically phrased and private letter to Archbishop Albrecht.” The image of Luther as a fiery rebel proves mostly untrue, at least initially. In spirit and in narrative strategy, he’s the modern equivalent of popular journalist-historians like John Hersey, Jim Bishop and Walter Lord, who brought factual insight into events blanketed by popular myth. The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization. Cahill, you feel, would be the ideal dinner or driving companion. Affordable digital textbook from RedShelf: Heretics and Heroes by: Thomas Cahill. ![]()
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