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Common Wealth, Church and Socialism
The story of Richard Acland opens a window onto a surprising road to political radicalism. It is an unlikely road, following as it does the path of the 15th baronet, owner of estates in Devon...
The story of Richard Acland opens a window onto a surprising road to political radicalism. It is an unlikely road, following as it does the path of the 15th baronet, owner of estates in Devon...
Christianity, mainly in its Roman Catholic form, has been an integral part of Latin American life for five centuries. It was of course imposed as one of many aspects of Spanish or Portuguese colonial rule,...
Many aspects of the society created by the 1979 Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua qualify it to be described as a utopia. Perhaps most notable is the literacy campaign launched less than a year after the...
Confounding the Mighty. Stories of Church, Social Class and Solidarity, edited by Luke Lerner. SCM Press (Norwich, 2023). 176 pages. £19.99. This is a valuable collection of essays, not least because the various contributions, despite...
Bad Theology. Oppression in the Name of God by Leah Robinson. SCM Press (Norwich 2023). 256 pages. £15.99. I learned a lot about the Ku Klux Klan from Leah Robinson’s book, and it was very...
In 380 CE the Roman emperor Theodosius declared Christianity to be the official religion of the empire. This was some fourteen centuries before Christianity came to Latin America, but the decree established an alliance between...
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare. 4th Estate (London 2021). Hbk. 304 pages. £13.29. Francis McDonagh has worked for two leading Catholic development agencies, translates for the international theological journal Concilium, and is an...
Observers in Britain of events in the United States may well be misled by the feeling of a ‘special relationship’ with the republic ‘across the pond’. What we know of the USA tends to be...
Karen Armstrong’s latest book is daunting. Even for a writer who has already studied the history of the concept of God, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, adding to her purview ‘the development of major scriptural canons...
In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by Frédéric Martel (Bloomsbury, London, 2019). Hbk. 576 pages. £17.99. Frédéric Martel has produced a formidable work, some 570 pages, the result of interviews with 48...