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Christianity

August 2016 Issue

John Harwood

Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Near-Death Experiences: Understanding Visions of the Afterlife

By John Martin Fischer & Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin

Afterlife: A History of Life after Death

By Philip C Almond

August 2016 Issue

Stephen Bates

Cross Talk

That Was the Church, That Was: How the Church of England

By Andrew Brown & Linda Woodhead

February 1994 Issue

Hilary Mantel

Monks Before Women

Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages

By Georges Duby

June 2000 Issue

Anna Reid

Among the Mad Clerics

Why Angels Fall: A Journey through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo

By Victoria Clark

June 2015 Issue

Miri Rubin

Conversations with the Dead

The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

By Peter Brown

March 2003 Issue

Hazhir Teimourian

Priests And Mullahs

The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation

By Richard Fletcher

June 2003 Issue

Robert Chandler

The Right Word

Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible

By Adam Nicolson

October 2003 Issue

Paul Johnson

The Great Divide

The Reformation

By Patrick Collinson

Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700

By Diarmaid MacCulloch

November 2003 Issue

The Man Behind the Miracles

The Authentic Gospel of Jesus

By Geza Vermes

March 2004 Issue

A C Grayling

Missives from the Monastry

Heloise and Abelard: A Twelfth-Century Love Story

By James Burge

March 2004 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

China’s God Squad

Jesus In Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power

By David Aikman

March 2004 Issue

Aidan Hartley

Man On A Mission

The Dust Diaries

By Owen Sheers

March 2004 Issue

Matthew Leeming

When Men Wore Mustaches

Duel in the Snows: The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa

By Charles Allen

August 2004 Issue

Simon Heffer

This Tedious Priest

Know The Truth: A Memoir

By George Carey

February 2011 Issue

Jason Burke

In the Line of Fire

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline Between Christianity and Islam

By Eliza Griswold

March 2009 Issue

John Guy

Defender Of The Brand

Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England

By Kevin Sharpe

October 2009 Issue

Edward Norman

Crosses to Bear

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

By Diarmaid MacCulloch

John Cornwell

A Dig at Ditchkins

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

By Terry Eagleton

August 2008 Issue

Toby Barnard

Brewing Troubles

God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland

By Micheál O’Siochrú

August 2008 Issue

John Adamson

A Tale of Two Houses

The Long Parliament of Charles II

By Annabel Patterson