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Batting for the Poor is the authorised biography of David Sheppard, telling the story of his life as a celebrated cricketer and his remarkable work as Bishop of Liverpool.

With stories from 146 asylum applicants from 37 countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Zimbabwe, Algeria and the Czech Republic, this text challenges both government and the people to listen to and reaffirm the dignity and intrinsic human value of asylum applicants.

Sportsman, priest and bishop David Sheppard is the subject of this biography, charting Sheppard's effect on British public life across the second half of the twentieth century.

This collection of essays explore the the Diggers, a group of 17th century men who shared a vision of a society based on collective ownership of the land. The themes discussed include the continuing power of leader Winstanley's writings, ideas on civil liberty and the economic background.

The first non-specialist survey of English radical religious groups, by an expert on the subject.

An interdisciplinary study of Victorian women of faith as portrayed in the fiction and non-fiction of the period. The book explores how novelists, biographers and other writers depicted religious women, with special reference to the influence of the ideal of the 'Angel in the House' as embodied in Coventry Patmore's poem of that name. Among those whose work is explored are George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, George Moore and A...

This volume, which fills a gap in the current literature, will be essential reading for third-year undergraduates and above in Biblical studies.

In its specially-commissioned fourteen chapters, this important book discusses an impressively wide range of issues around the theme of male spirituality in the nineteenth century, drawing from history, cultural studies, art history and literary criticism. Topics explored include: ideological and iconographical representations of masculinity across the major Christian denominations, militarism and hymnody, male homosexuality and homoeroticism....

This collection of essays explore the the Diggers, a group of 17th century men who shared a vision of a society based on collective ownership of the land. The themes discussed include the continuing power of leader Winstanley's writings, ideas on civil liberty and the economic background.

This volume, which fills a gap in the current literature, will be essential reading for third-year undergraduates and above in Biblical studies.

This diary brings together quotations and reflections by some of the most inspiring and important of radical thinkers throughout the course of history. While Christian thinkers predominate here, the diary includes readings by those who are not in the Christian tradition but whose ideas in one way or another have influenced or have had an important bearing on theology or on Christian life and witness. Also included are twelve short essays on th...