Religious History

Evangelicals and Culture

By Doreen M. Rosman

A study of the society and culture of early nineteenth-century British evangelicalism, challenging the stereotype that evangelicals were anti-intellectual.

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The Fifteen Confederates

By Johann Eberlin von Günzburg and Geoffrey Dipple (editor)

A new translation of an important document of the German Reformation, a collection of pamphlets by the former Franciscan Johann Eberlin von Günzburg.

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A Foreign and Wicked Institution?:

The Campaign Against Convents in Victorian England

By Rene Kollar

An examination of the development of Roman Catholic and Anglican female religious orders in 19th-century Britain, and the prejudices that they encountered.

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Forerunners of the Reformation:

The Shape of Late Medieval Thought

By Heiko A. Oberman

A groundbreaking discussion of late medieval Christian thought, opening up the studies of specialists to a wider and more general audience.

Series: Library of Ecclesiastical History

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From Icons to Idols:

Documents on the Image Debate in Reformation England

By David J. Davis

A selection of key historical texts from the debate over religious imagery during the English Reformation, with a commentary by a leading scholar in the field.

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From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God:

The Origins and Development of New Testament Christology

By Maurice Casey

An important contribution to the debate on the development of Christology in the apostolic era, tracing the evolution of the historical figure of Jesus.

Guns and Gospel:

Imperialism and Evangelism in China

By Ambrose Mong

An exploration of the history of Christian missionary work in China, and its often ambiguous and uneasy relationship with European imperialism.

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Heaven on Earth:

Reimagining Time and Eternity in Nineteenth-Century British Evangelicalism

By Martin Spence

A revealing study of premillenialism in Victorian evangelicalism, showing that the doctrine was often linked to forward-looking elements of evangelical thought.

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Henry VIII's Bishops:

Diplomats, Administrators, Scholars and Shepherds

By Andrew Allan Chibi

A comprehensive prosopographical study of diverse and interesting group of bishops who served during the reign of Henry VIII.

Heresy and Mysticism in 16th Century Spain:

The Alumbrados

By Alastair Hamilton

The first full-scale study of the mysticism and piety of the the Alumbrados or 'Illuminated Ones', and their suppression as heretics by the Spanish Inquisition.

Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720–1798:

A Political and Religious Crisis in Lebanon

By Bernard Heyberger

An account of the life of the controversial mystic Hindiyya 'Ujaymi and what her story reveals of the religious and political climate of 18th-century Lebanon.