Dazzling Darkness
The Lives and Afterlives of the Christian Mystics
ISBN: HB: 9781911723905,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
464 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
464 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A captivating journey through the lives of Christian mystics - from the early Church to the twentieth century.
For 2,000 years, women and men of the Christian faith have experienced what some mystics call a "dazzling darkness": the spiritual journey...
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Exclusionary West
Medieval Minorities and the Making of Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781787383159,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A timely study of the intrinsic connections between Western European nations and their non-Christian minorities in the age of state formation.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but these notions of the ma...
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Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism
Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England
ISBN: HB: 9781911723585,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A hard-hitting critique of the Church of England as a social, spiritual and financial driver and beneficiary of the British Empire.
This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English const...
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Vatican Spies
From the Second World War to Pope Francis
ISBN: HB: 9781911723400,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A revelatory history of the priests, nuncios and missionaries whose "special operations" have served the Holy See and the 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide.
"Officially" the Vatican has no espionage service; but does that mean that no one carries out...
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God is No Thing
Coherent Christianity
ISBN: PB: 9781805261612,
ISBN: HB: 9781849046374,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2024
136 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
136 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
"God is no thing, but not nothing". These words from the renowned thinker Herbert McCabe point to a fallacy at the heart of New Atheist polemics against religion: the deity rejected by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and their follo...
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Beyond Belief
How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World
ISBN: PB: 9781787385894,
ISBN: HB: 9781787385535,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2024
344 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
344 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
A fascinating expose of the global revolution you've never heard of: a deep-pocketed, tech-savvy Christian movement reshaping our societies from within.
How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed s...
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Innocence of Pontius Pilate
How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History
ISBN: PB: 9781805260288,
ISBN: HB: 9781787382176,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2023
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
How have Christianity and Empire been shaped by perceptions of Pilate's role in the Crucifixion?
The gospels and ancient historians agree: Jesus was sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, the Roman imperial prefect in Jerusalem. To this day, Christia...
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Holy War
The Untold Story of Catholic Italy's Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
ISBN: PB: 9781805260240,
ISBN: HB: 9781787384774,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2023
488 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 illus.
488 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 illus.
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022
That Mussolini wished to conquer Abyssinia is well known; that Italy's Catholic Church also sought the eradication of the venerable Ethiopian Orthodox Church is not.
In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded the sovereign...
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I Judge No One
A Political Life of Jesus
ISBN: HB: 9781787388055,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2022
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
How can the narratives of the gospels, and their interpretation through the centuries, explain the highly political death of a deeply spiritual figure?
Why was Jesus, who said "I judge no one", put to death for a political crime? Of course, this is...
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People of the Book
Prophet Muhammad's Encounters with Christians
ISBN: HB: 9781787384712,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2021
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A considered study of Muslim - Christian coexistence and dialogue in the time of Prophet Muhammad.
The Christians that lived around the Arabian Peninsula during Muhammad's lifetime are shrouded in mystery. Some of the stories of the Prophet's intera...
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