Provides the reader with a framework of reference to get their bearings and begin to develop a personal response to the task of 'doing the right thing'. This book contains chapters covering questions such as: What is fairness? Should I always tell the truth? What are the moralities of war? and What are my ecological responsibilities to the planet?

Shows how Christianity transformed the thinking and the structures of society in Europe. This work traces Christianity's influence across the centuries, from its earliest days, through the East/West schism, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, to its development in the scientific age of the 17th and 18th centuries and the modern world.

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Major new biography of the 14th century reformer and controversialist.

The name of John Wyclif is surrounded by mythology. This biography offers insights into Wyclif the man, his preoccupations and his achievements. It follows Wyclif through his childhood and university days at Oxford to his life as a writer, preacher and lecturer, and - in his later years - a campaigner against the abuse of power and privilege.

This study looks at the assumptions within which students of the Bible in the West approached their reading, from Augustine to the end of the twelfth century, when new skills in grammar and logic made it possible to develop more refined critical methods and to apply fresh tools to the task. (view table of contents)

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Gregory the Great was, after Augustine of Hippo, perhaps the most influential of the Fathers in the Latin West during the Middle Ages. He put Augustine's thought into a form which proved accessible and acceptable to mediaeval readers, and he added much of his own, notably in his preaching, in which he interpreted the Bible with equal emphasis on the practical living of a good Christian life and the aspiration of the soul towards God and the life to come. This study looks at Gregory's thought as a whole and tries to show what was most important to him and the way he arrived at a balance between the active and the contemplative, the 'outward' and the 'inward' in his own mind. There is a tailpiece on the influence of his ideas in later centuries. (view table of contents)

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