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Jonathan Wright (born 1969) is a British
historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
and
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. His books include ''The Jesuits: Missions, Myths and Histories'' (HarperCollins, 2004), published in the United States as ''God's Soldiers'' (Doubleday, 2004), and ''The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State'' (HarperCollins, 2006), and ''Heretics: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) (on
heresy Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization. A heretic is a proponent of heresy. Heresy in Heresy in Christian ...
).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 St Andrews (; ; , pronounced ʰʲɪʎˈrˠiː.ɪɲ is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fourth-largest settleme ...
and
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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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