The Stripping of the Altars – 50 Years in 50 Books
Eamon Duffy’s landmark account of the pre-Reformation church in England was first published in 1992. The Stripping of the Altars is a major revisionist…
Catholicism
Candlemas: An Extract from ‘The Stripping of the Altars’
In The Stripping of the Altars, Eamon Duffy recreates lay people’s experience of religion in the pre-Reformation church, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither…
The English Reformation: Was Henry VIII the founder of Roman Catholicism? by Peter Marshall
2017 marks 500 years since the Reformation. Peter Marshall, author of Heretics and Believers, asks whether Henry VIII really was the founder of Roman Catholicism? It…
Terry Eagleton:
Culture and the Death of God
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? In Culture and the Death of God, formidable thinker and renowned cultural…
The Catholic Church and World Development
With 1.3 billion members, the Catholic Church is the world’s largest organization and perhaps its most controversial. The Church’s obstinacy on matters like clerical…
Robert Calderisi: The Catholic Church & the Developing World
With 1.3 billion members, the Catholic Church is the world’s largest organization and perhaps its most controversial. The Church’s obstinacy on matters like clerical…
How Christianity came to Latin America: Extract from ‘New Worlds’ by John Lynch
With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch’s New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by…
Author video: Terry Eagleton discusses religion, academia and writing
In the second part in our series of interviews with Marxist critic, literary theorist and philosopher Terry Eagleton, we ask him about his religious upbringing, academic…