Jonathan Wright (historian, 1969)
Jonathan A. Wright (* 1969 in Hartlepool ) is a British historian.
Wright studied at the universities of St. Andrews, Pennsylvania and Oxford, where he received his PhD in history in 1998.
Wright's book on the Jesuits has been translated into seven languages. Wright writes regular reviews for America's Catholic magazine and the Catholic Herald newspaper .
Works
- God's Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power. A History of the Jesuits . Doubleday, New York 2004.
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The Jesuits: Missions, Myths and Histories . HarperCollins, London 2004.
- The Jesuits: Myth, Power, Mission . Magnus, Essen 2005.
- Heretics: The Creation of Christianity From the Gnostics to the Modern Church . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston 2011.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jonathan Wright in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Namely into German, Czech ( Jezuité. Misie, mýty a dějiny ), Dutch ( De Jezuïeten. Missie, mythen en methoden ), Italian ( I gesuiti. Storia, mito e missione ), Spanish ( Los jesuitas. Una historia de los " soldados de Dios " ), Portuguese ( Os jesuítas. Missões, mitos e histórias ) and Polish ( Jezuici. Misje, mity i prawda. Między hagiografią a czarną legendą ).
- ↑ See e.g. B. Jonathan Wright: Explaining Evil. In: America, September 29, 2008.
- ↑ See e.g. B. Jonathan Wright: Ideas that would make Calvin spin in his grave. In: Catholic Herald. August 27, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wright, Jonathan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wright, Jonathan A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartlepool |