Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Cundill Prize in History
Academic background
Alma materChurchill College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Elton
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineEcclesiastical history
InstitutionsSt Cross College, Oxford
Doctoral studentsEthan H. Shagan[1]
Alec Ryrie[1]
Notable works
Ecclesiastical career
Religion
Anglican)
ChurchChurch of England
Ordained1987 (deacon)

Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch

ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was formerly the senior tutor. Since 1997, he has been Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford
.

Though ordained a

Journal of Ecclesiastical History.[4]

Life

Diarmaid MacCulloch was born in

Liverpool University in 1973, he then returned to Cambridge to complete a PhD degree in 1977 on Tudor history under the supervision of Geoffrey Elton
, combining this with a position as Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College.

MacCulloch joined the

Wesley College, Bristol, and taught church history in the department of theology at the University of Bristol. He interrupted his teaching to study for the Oxford Diploma in Theology (awarded 1987) at Ripon College Cuddesdon. In 1987 he was ordained a deacon in the Church of England and from 1987 to 1988 he served as a non-stipendiary minister at All Saints' Clifton with St John's in the Diocese of Bristol. However, in response to a motion put before the General Synod in 1987 by Tony Higton regarding the sexuality of clergy, he declined ordination to the priesthood
and ceased to minister at Clifton.

Regarding the conflict between his homosexuality and the Church of England and his own retreat from orthodoxy he said:

I was ordained Deacon. But, being a gay man, it was just impossible to proceed further, within the conditions of the Anglican set-up, because I was determined that I would make no bones about who I was; I was brought up to be truthful, and truth has always mattered to me. The Church couldn't cope and so we parted company. It was a miserable experience.[2]

MacCulloch was awarded a Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree by the University of Oxford in 2001; the DD is the highest degree awarded by the university.

In 1996 his book Thomas Cranmer: A Life won the

Cundill Prize in History, a $75,000 prize, the largest such prize in Canada at the time.[5]

In 2011, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog at the University of Edinburgh.[6] In 2012, he wrote and presented How God Made the English, a three-part documentary series tracing the history of English identity from the Dark Ages to the present day.[7] In 2013 he presented a documentary on Thomas Cromwell and his place in English ecclesiastical and political history. His 2015 series Sex and the Church on BBC Two explored how Christianity has shaped western attitudes to sex, gender and sexuality throughout history.[8]

In 2018, MacCulloch published the biography Thomas Cromwell: A Life.[9] MacCulloch sits on the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press.[10]

In 2019, MacCulloch retired as Professor of the History of the Church and was made

senior research fellow in church history and archivist at Campion Hall, Oxford since 2020.[11][12]

Honours

MacCulloch was elected a

clergy holding knighthoods are addressed as "Sir" only if so honoured before their ordination.[15][16]

In 2021, he was awarded a Festschrift titled "Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity: Essays in Honour of Diarmaid MacCulloch".[17]

Interviews

With Henk de Berg

Three-part interview conducted by Henk de Berg (2018)

Appearances on In Our Time

Selected works

Filmography

Books

  • Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County 1500–1600 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986)
  • Groundwork of Christian History (London, Epworth Press, 1987)
  • The Later Reformation in England (1990)
  • Henry VIII: Politics, Policy, and Piety (1995)
  • Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996)
  • Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (1999)
    • republished as The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (2001)
  • Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490–1700 (2003)
    • republished as The Reformation: A History (2005)
  • ISBN 978-0-7139-9869-6
    .
  • Silence: A Christian History (London, Allen Lane, 2013)
  • All Things Made New: The Reformation and its Legacy (London, Allen Lane, 2016)
  • Thomas Cromwell: A Life (London, Allen Lane, 2018)

Critical studies, reviews and biography

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c CURRICULUM VITAE: Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch (PDF), retrieved 24 February 2021
  2. ^ a b "BBC - Press Office - Network TV Programme Information BBC Week 45 Feature name". BBC. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. ^ MacCulloch 2009, p. 11.
  4. ^ "Editorial board". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Search". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 15 November 2010. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Gifford Lectures". ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh.
  7. ^ "BBC Two - How God Made the English". BBC. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  8. ^ MacCulloch, Diarmaid (April 2015). "Sex and the Church". BBC 2. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  9. ^ Childs, Jessie (22 September 2018). "Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch review – what Hilary Mantel left out". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  10. ^ Princeton University Press, European Advisory Board Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ a b "Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  12. ^ "Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch". Campion Hall. University of Oxford.
  13. ^ "No. 60009". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2011. p. 1.
  14. ^ "Prof Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch's Biography". Debrett's. Retrieved 11 April 2012.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ Tim Walker (9 January 2012). "Please, not Sir". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  16. ^ Matt Pickles (5 January 2012). "Behind the shining armour". Arts at Oxford. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  17. ISBN 978-1783276271
    .

Sources

External links

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