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The book describes the development of religious thought in Wales between 1760 and 1900. Although the emphasis is on religious thought, it also includes much on social history including industrialisation, popular Nonconformity, revivalism, the interest in foreign missions and the stirrings of social radicalism.

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A highly readable collection of seven essays portraying seven influentially significant figures in the fields of religion and society in Wales during the 20th century, namely D. Cynddelw Williams, Timothe Rees, Lewis Valentine, J. D. Daniel, Ivor Oswy Davies, Pennar Davies and R. Tudur Jones. 8 black-and-white photographs.

A history of religion in Wales between 1588, when the first complete Welsh Bible was published, and 1760. The book describes the development of Christian thought and how biblical religion evolved in response to social and political change.

Presents a history of 20th-century Christianity in Wales. This title assesses the effect which the Great War made on people's spiritual convictions and on religious opinion and practise. It analyses the state of the disestablished church in Wales, an increasingly confident Catholicism and the growing inter-war crisis of NonconformitY.

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The author, a university teacher of theology, has taken his basic introductory course and adapted it for a lay audience. It addresses the questions that every Christian ought to be asking: how did the Bible come together? Why do we believe it to be true? What is faith? How do we know God? What does it mean to belong to the Church? and much more. Drawing on 2000 years of theological writing and insight, this is a fluent guide to Christian faith.

The Span of the Cross" is the first full-length study of the history of Christianity in twentieth-century Wales, a period that saw the trauma of two world wars, economic depression, political change, and increasingly secular attitudes. Beginning with a description of religion and its place in society in 1914, the book assesses the effect of the Great War on people's spiritual convictions and practices. Further discussions include the state of ...

A monograph on the history of the reception of Karl Barth's theology in Great Britain. Beginning with the essays of Adolf Keller and H R Mackintosh in the 1920s, it analyses the interplay between Barth's developing thought and different strands of English, Scottish and Welsh church history up to the 1980s.

Terrific... This really is a readable, accessible introduction that takes account of some of the most recent Barth scholarship. It is highly recommended for those coming to Barth's work for the first time.' Oliver D. Crisp, Reader in Theology, University of Bristol 'Of the many introductions to Barth, this ranks as one of the best.  The clarity and ease of its exposition of Barth's life and thought are exceptional, as is its alertness to the d...

Religion has long been a defining characteristic of Welsh identity, and this volume demonstrates the complicated relationship between religion and faith and Welsh national culture from the seventeenth century forward--touching upon the Puritan period, the Older Dissent of the eighteenth century, nineteenth-century Nonconformity, and the impact of twentieth-century secularism. "Wales and the Word" stands apart from other volumes on Welsh religi...