About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: A. G. Dickens, Andrew Pettegree, Bernd Moeller, Carlos Eire, Christopher Haigh, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Eamon Duffy, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Geoffrey Elton, George Huntston Williams, H. C. Erik Midelfort, Harold J. Grimm, Harold S. Bender, Heiko Oberman, Heinrich Heppe, Heinz Schilling, Hubert Jedin, James M. Stayer, Jaroslav Pelikan, Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne, John Hungerford Pollen (Jesuit), Joseph Lortz, Karl Holl, Patrick Collinson, Preserved Smith, Richard Marius, Richard Muller (theologian), Robert Kolb, Robert M. Kingdon, Roland Bainton, Steven Ozment, Volker Press. Excerpt: Richard Curry Marius (July 29, 1933-November 5, 1999) was an American academic and writer. He was a scholar of the Reformation, novelist of the American South, speechwriter, and teacher of writing and English literature at Harvard University. He was widely published, leaving behind major biographies of Thomas More and Martin Luther, four novels set in his native Tennessee, several books on writing, and a host of scholarly articles for academic journals and mainstream book reviews. Working from a small cluttered office atop Harvard's Widener Library and an equally cluttered study in his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, Marius was a charismatic raconteur, a provocative political activist, and a devoted wearer of bowties. He was also an enthusiastic cyclist, biking to Cambridge, Massachusetts, from his home in Belmont and taking frequent bike trips in the French countryside until his health failed in 1998. Over the years, he mentored many Harvard students who went on to be scholars, journalists, and other kinds of professional writers. Marius began life as a farmboy in East Tennessee, evolved into a fiery figure of 1960s campus political activism, and became a respected Reformation historian on the Harvard faculty. Through it all, he had a complicated and lifelong engagement with Christianity, wrestling with matters of faith--and its loss--both in his scholarship and in his novels. Marius was born in Dixie Lee Junction, Tennessee, on July 29, 1933, and grew up on a 20-acre (81,000 m) Loudon County, Tennessee farm along with a sister and two brothers. His father was an immigrant from Greece who earned a chemical engineering degree in Belgium before settling in the United States, where he managed the foundry at the Lenoir Car Works of the Southern Railway. His mother was a former reporter for The Knoxville News-Sentinel in the 1920s and 1930s. Marius' mother, Eunice, was a devout Southern Baptist and fundamentalist Christian whose religious faith had a particularly strong i
