This series complements the specialist series of Studies in Christian History and Thought and Thought for which Paternoster is becoming increasingly well known by offering works that cover the wide…
This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and …
For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road visited for the first time, if at all when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives…
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…
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…
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…
Described by one reviewer as, the most useful survey of recent English church history available, The Making of the Modern Church is ideal for students, those in theological training, or more genera…