Jonathan Wright (born 1969) is a British
historian
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and
author
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"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
.
His books include ''The Jesuits: Missions, Myths and Histories'' (HarperCollins, 2004),
published in the United States as ''God's Soldiers'' (Doubleday, 2004). He has recently published a book on
heresy
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.
[Jonathan Wright, ''Heretics: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). ]
Wright was educated at the Universities of
St Andrews
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and
Oxford
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where he was awarded a doctorate in 1999. Wright reviews for numerous British and American newspapers, magazines and academic journals.
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1969 births
Living people
British historians
British writers
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