History and Biography

Gathered for the Journey brings to market, a new and contemporary approach to catholic moral theology. The writers, all post Vatican II contemporaries themselves, have created a tightly knitted series of chapters, with a specific undergraduate...

Pen-portraits of people who have made a significant contribution to reform and renewal over the past century. Includes painters, politicians, writers, musicians and social reformers as well as famous theological and ecclesiastical figures.

A pyschologist's critique of the Catholic Church, supported by insights of four influential women.

"City and Sanctuary" challenges some common assumptions about the Near East in the Roman and Early Byzantine periods, by examining the architecture and urban desing of five cities: Palmyra, Petra, Gerasa, Caesarea Maritima and Jerusalem....

William H. C. Frend, who has devoted more than fifty years to the study of the early Church, has since become one of the foremost church historians in the English-speaking world. He has published a series of pioneering books on this period, drawing...

Throughout English history bishops have had a prominent role in both Church and State. In this lively and entertaining volume, Trevor Beeson describes many of the greatest and most engaging among them. With a wealth of amusing detail and anecdote,...

Taking account of recent research and different historical perspectives, Kenneth Hylson-Smith traces the history of the churches in England from the reign of Elizabeth I to the present day.

The contributors - two bishops, an area dean, four women priests and a Methodist minister - argue that the Act was a disaster, a betrayal of the women about to be ordained and their successors, and that it has been profoundly damaging to the church.

Mandatory reading for students of patristics, doctrine and church history. Argues that Arius' 'heresy' grew out of his attempt to unite traditional biblical language with radical philosophical ideas and techniques; issues of authority...