To this era Mr MacCulloch brings some baggage, and it can get in the way.
Mr MacCulloch describes the era with a skilful sweep, though little distinguishes this section from a more general account.
Mr MacCulloch's tone changes sharply at this point, becoming lighter and more gossipy.
Mr MacCulloch copes better with the challenges of writing about modern Christianity, relegated to the margins of social, political and scientific developments.
Ithaca recently purchased a 14% stake in MacCulloch, which lies 250km (155 miles) north east of Aberdeen on the UK Continental Shelf.
But Mr MacCulloch devotes little space to that teaching, and many pages (complete with his own misleading terms) to those who rejected it.
This week it emerged that the MacCulloch field to the north east of Aberdeen was shut in due to suspected damage caused by storms.
So for Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford don who specialises in the Reformation, the challenge of chronicling Christian history in just over 1, 000 pages is manifold.
Professor MacCulloch said he was concerned for the SRO because it could not generate income like the Archaeological Service and "questions need to be answered".
Setting about the numbers with their econometric tool-box, Messrs Di Tella and MacCulloch not only do that but also control for everything they can think of, check for assorted biases and distortions, and consider different models of underlying economic behaviour.
Fair enough, but such is Mr MacCulloch's preference for the heretical over the orthodox that a reader who relied on him alone might struggle at times to work out what the mainstream Christian view was, despite learning lots about those who were against it.
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