A fervent millennial hope has often existed at the heart of Protestant evangelicalism. Varieties of eschatology have exercised a profound impact on the movement's theology and history. Although mil…
This collection of essays seeks to bring some of the most recent innovative work on the English Reformation to the attention of teachers and students, and to show how a new understanding of the sub…
Nicholas Ferrar is best remembered today because of two poets: George Herbert, who on his deathbed entrusted his poems to Ferrar; and T.S. Eliot, who name of religious community Ferrar and his fami…
The idea of a heavenly contract, uniting God and humanity in a bargain of salvation, emerged as the keystone of Puritan theology in early modern England. Yet this concept, with its connotations of …
The author begins with an overview of the position of the minister within the 18th century community, pointing out that because the minister was often the most highly educated man in the community,…
The first part of the book deals with the secular clergy, the rectors and vicars of parishes and their subordinates, the second part deals with the members of religious orders. Though the inquiry i…
English churches of the late nineteenth century suggest a clearcut idea of what a church should look like, and it is still widely held. Certain features of the building, the position of the altar a…
Other biographies of Lewis explore his childhood or his dramatic conversation to Christianity. But it was the rarely discussed period from Lewis's childhood to his early thirties that took him on a…
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. These famous words of the English literary critic Thomas Carlyle point to the importance of individuals in the shaping of human history. …
In The Last Divine Office, Geoffrey Moorhouse explores the enormous upheaval caused by English Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, drawing for this sources on material that has lain…