Roger Shuff holds that the influence of the Brethren movement on wider evangelical life in England in the twentieth century is often underrated. This book records and accounts for the fact that Bre…
Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, many of them of great beauty, from…
Vicki Tolar Burton argues that John Wesley wanted to make ordinary Methodist men and women readers, writers, and public speakers because he understood the powerful role of language for spiritual fo…
Humane Christianity examines how the institutional church, which shuld be a shining example of God's love in the world, has so often throught history been the very opposite, corrupt, oppressive, ab…
Eight specialists paint a portrait of one of the most brilliant centers of Christian culture. They describe the Abbey and its role in the making of the English identity, and chart the Abbey's relig…
Celebrated by Matthew Arnold as the city of dreaming spires. Oxford has long and illustrious history as one of Europe's oldest univeristy towns. Its colleges, libraries and museums, ranging from t…
The Debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of the successive historical approaches to the English Reformation from 1525 to the present with a critical review of recent debates in t…
Reginald Pole was of the most complex figures in sixteenth Century history. The only Enbglishman to follow a career as the Roman Curia in the Crucial decades of the reformation, the victim successi…
In Church and State, Andrew Partington argues that the contribution of the Church of England bishops to the House of Lords during the Thatcher years was overwhelmingly critical of the government; f…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of th…