Diarmaid MacCulloch

Diarmaid MacCulloch is one of the world's leading historians of Christianity, a professor, broadcaster, and author whose comprehensive scholarship has shaped how millions of people understand the history of the Christian faith. Born in 1951, he is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St Cross College. He was knighted in 2012 for services to scholarship. His book Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years is a monumental work — a comprehensive history of Christianity from its pre-Christian roots to the present day that was awarded the Wolfson History Prize, the Cundill Prize, and named one of the best books of 2010 by multiple publications. He has also written acclaimed works on Thomas Cranmer (which won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), the Reformation, and silence in Christian history. He has presented major BBC television documentaries on the history of Christianity. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers authoritative, readable, and intellectually thrilling history that illuminates how Christianity shaped — and was shaped by — the civilisations it encountered.