The lay folks' catechism

Tracing the development of Catholic ideas in Japan and China during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, this book provides an overview of the early emplantation of Ca...

The religious orders recruited the aid of the Indian ruling classes in introducing Christianity, and this alliance served to support both the new religion and the old elites. Their...

That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resourc...

Abstract This book is about the role that ‘Tractarian’ theologians considered the lay people should have in the Church, which is to say it is a book about theology. ...

Coleridge’s prose represents the trace and track of his mind in action. It records the intricate processes, the inner workshop of thinking and feeling: fertile, at times rapid, at ...

Chapter 5 takes a long-term view of one seventeenth-century conflict, the meaning of the Sabbath, so as to gauge philology’s potential to redefine the significance of biblical text...