Gives an account of the emergence of progressive religious thinkers and organisations on the 'religious left'. This book offers an analysis of the cultural roots, key ideas and organisational structures of this faith, assessing its significance in the changing moral and religious landscape of contemporary western society.

Spurgeon's sermons are notable for their quantity and quality. The NEW PARK STREET PULPIT consists of the fi rst 6 volumes preceding the 57 volumes of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit. It covers the years of Spurgeon's ministry at New Park Street Chapel (1855-1860). This book contains Spurgeon's sermons, preached during his first year at this New Park Street Chapel

Series: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM) In this volume, leading historians of Christianity in the non-Western world examine the relationship between missionaries and nineteenth-century European colonialism, and between indigenous converts and the colonial contexts in which they lived. Forced to operate within a political framework of European expansionism that lay outside their power to control, missionaries and early converts variously attempted to co-opt certain aspect...