Books in the Studies in Church History series

Exploring a variety of themes, this collection examines the Reformation in relation to key aspects of church organization, belief, sacrament, conversion, relationships with other denominations, theological education, church and state, worship, and issues of resilience and decline.

Starting in the early Middle Ages, it moves through the great medieval councils to Vatican I and II. Some of the papers raise issues of the first importance, others fill gaps in our knowledge. All are well worth the attention of historians.

The theme of foreign missions is comprehensively examined, with papers on both the conversion of Europe and the missions to Asia and Africa. A later development considered if the missionary situation facing the church at home after the Industrial Revolution. The volume concludes with a masterly survey of the literature of missionary history by Bishop Neill.

In this volume, considerable attention is paid to the relationship of movements of protest and dissent to their social, intellectual, cultural and political backgrounds: in this many of the authors reflect the interest in 'religious sociology' which characterises much contemporary Continental work in the field of ecclesiastical history.

St. Cyril of Alexandria's Metaphysics of the Incarnation seeks to reposition its subject in the precise philosophical context to which he belonged, seeking, as he did, for common ground between ecclesiastical biblical presuppositions and the semantic terms central to the Late Antique philosophical Academy.

'Translating Christianity' is the theme of Studies in Church History 53. More people pray and worship in more languages in Christianity than in any other religion. This volume brings together scholars to explore the challenges of translating Christianity in linguistic, physical, ecclesiastical and metaphorical terms.

'The Church and Empire' is the theme of Studies in Church History, 54. This volume explores the relations of churches and empires around the world, and Christian conceptions of empire, in the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern periods, as well as the role of empire in the global expansion of Christianity.

This volume reflects the long and complex history of the various relationships between churches and education, exploring the ways in which churches have sought to educate, catechise and instruct, from the very earliest communities' teaching of those about to be baptised, to present-day churches' involvement in schools and higher education.