English Soul The Faith of a Nation

The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As the predominant faith of the people, Christianity has been the reflection, perhaps the embodiment, of the English soul. This fascinating new history argues that Christianity has been the anchoring and defining doctrine of England, while accepting respectfully that other powerful and significant faiths have also influenced the religious sensibility of this nation.Peter Ackroyd surveys the lives and faith of the most important figures of English Christianity, from the Venerable Bede to C. S. Lewis, exploring the mysticism of Julian of Norwich and William Blake, the tumultuous years of the Reformation, the emergence of the English Bible, the evangelical tradition, including John Wesley, and the contemporary contest between tradition, revival and atheism. This is an essential, comprehensive and accessible survey of English Christianity.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Ackroyd, Ackroyd Peter
• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 12.04.2024
• Categoria: Saggistica
• EAN: 9781789148459
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-845-9
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 16.8 x 24 x 3.5 cm
• Categorie: England, Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, European History, Canterbury, HISTORY / Europe / General, Richard Dawkins, Erasmus, Vernacular, Norwich, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, G. K. Chesterton, On the Origin of Species, Evangelism, mysticism, Milton, History of Religion, Annie Besant, King James Bible, Church of England, British & Irish history, Elizabeth I, Cromwell, John Donne, Thomas More, protestant, Edmund Burke, William Wilberforce, Heresy, Samuel Butler, Temperance, Rowan Williams, John Calvin, Anglicanism, Mere Christianity, Anglo-Saxon, Thomas Cranmer, John Bunyan, William Tyndale, Methodism, Margery Kempe, John Henry Newman, Thomas Malthus, Sermons, Moravian, Pentecostalism, Catherine Booth, Catholic, Presbyterians, puritans, Levellers, Atheism, Piers Plowman, Puritanism, Dissenters, Methodist, William Booth, Baptist, Nonconformity, Salvation Army, Quaker, Roman Catholicism, Evangelicals, Book of Common Prayer, Charles Spurgeon, benedictine, Diggers, Non-Conformists, Ranters, Robert Browne, George Fox, John Lilburne, Oxford Movement, authorised version, Pilgrim’s Progress, Richard Rolle, Richard Hooker, Pentecostalists, Peasants’ Revolt, the selfish gene, justin welby, Don Cupitt, Lollardy, Lancelot Andrewes, George Herbert, Laudianism, Revelations of Divine Love, Gerard Winstanley, Henry Barrow, Lodowicke Muggleton, Alexander Boddy, Honest to God, Non-Conformism, Thomas Cartwright, The Fire of Love, Anglo-Catholicism, Book of Martyrs, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Walter Hilton, Thomas Helwys, John A. T. Robinson, Geneva Bible, cloud of unknowing, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, Muggletonians, John Wyclif, Matthew’s Bible, arminian, Elizabethan Religious Settlement, John Hick, John Foxe, The Scale of Perfection, Abiezer Coppe, Act of Supremacy, Miles Coverdale, William Laud, Charismatics, Caedmon, Charles Bradlaugh, Tractarians, William Langland