A study of two major icons of Anglophone culture – the Bible and Shakespeare – exploring the treatment of canonicity, interpretation and appropriation.
An examination of the parallels between liberation theology and 16th century Anabaptism and the transformative model they offer for the modern church.
The last and most important work of the 17th-century mystic, his wide-ranging interpretation of Genesis and the nature of mystical experience.
The last and most important work of the 17th-century mystic, his wide-ranging interpretation of Genesis and the nature of mystical experience.
The last and most important work of the 17th-century mystic, his wide-ranging interpretation of Genesis and the nature of mystical experience.
The cosmology of Jacob Boehme, 'The Cobbler of Görlitz', one of the great mystics of the Reformation era, who influenced many later writers and mystics.
A survey of British sport, from the Middle Ages to the present, placing sport in the wider ambit of British life and examining its social implications.
An essential text for students and general readers alike, exploring some of the most important years in the formation of our sporting heritage.
An absorbing and accessible account of the effects of disease and pandemics on human history, from the ancient to the modern world.
An insightful study of the theological and eschatological themes at the core of the work of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.
A challenging book raising many questions about the nature of the decorative arts and surveying developments in decoration from the 1830s onwards.
A short study of the effects upon design, principally architecture, of the Reformation and the associated rejection of imagery in worship.
A collection of essays exploring the theological issues raised by the First World War, inspired by the noted wartime chaplain Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy.