Among the great thinkers and writers who have shaped the understanding and practice of Anglicanism, the influence of Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-72) is immense. The Anglicanism of F. D. Maurice's day was scarcely a distinct tradition at all It was simply the religion of the established Church in England, Wales and Ireland. Although it had been exported overseas with colonial expansion, there was as yet no notion of an Anglican Communion, while a series of crises between Church and State was undermining its status at home. Emerging Evangelical and Tracrarian movements were each trying to...

-This is an interesting and important book, the first attempt to encapsulate the highly idiosyncratic uvre and career of Evgeny Popov, a major and controversial figure in the late Soviet and post-Soviet literary landscape.- (Michael Pushkin, University of Birmingham)
-Morris is excellent in his treatment of the writer s attitude towards the past and history; and he differentiates between Popov s more nuanced and ambiguous view of the Soviet experiment and those writers, likewise liberals, who have adopted a confessional stance.- (Robert Porter, University of Bristol)
-A broad...

This volume offers three major perspectives on the Christian Church in the modern period. The first is a political assessment through a prism of international conflicts and international relations. The second perspective is regional, covering not only to Europe and the Americas, but Christianity in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific Rim and Australasia. The third is institutional and looks at traditions and their relationships with other faiths and with wider cultures. An epilogue evaluates the future and prospects for Christianity in the new millennium.