Throughout the history of Christianity, men and women have wrestled with the challenge of how to interpret, and how to follow, the Gospels. Intrinsic to this process is the concept of "reform", a recognition that change is necessary in order to retur...

Why did Catholicism attract so many unlikely converts in Britain during the twentieth century? The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked turn t...

A leading Qur'anic scholar's revisionary account of how Islam emerged in dialogue with Christian traditions. Challenging the dominant narrative about the history of the Qur'an and the emergence of Islam in a predominantly pagan context, Gabriel Sai...

The second volume of Jack M. Sasson's authoritative commentary on the book of Judges. The second half of Judges is set when "there was no king in Israel; anyone could do whatever felt right". It narrates the tale of Samson, the would-be liberator o...

A sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age. Until now, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English set...

A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land. The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieva...

A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity's earliest days to our own times. Religion is distinctly human. We can't help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the universe? When we die,...

Focusing on Christianity's core practices, a leading theologian imagines Christianity as a way of life oriented toward wisdom. In this book, Kevin W. Hector argues that we can understand Christianity as a set of practices designed to transform one'...

The first volume of a groundbreaking two-part commentary on the book of Genesis by leading biblical scholar Ronald Hendel. The first eleven chapters of Genesis narrate the origin of the universe; the creation of the first human beings; the beginnin...

A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century. From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and...