Jeremy Morris

George Bell, Bishop of Chichester

History & Biography

“George Bell was one of the most outstanding leaders of the Church of England in the twentieth century, with an unrivalled breadth of vision and a courageous willingness to speak out against injustice. In this outstanding biography Andrew Chandler paints a brilliant portrait of a many-sided figure who helped to define the Church of England's ecumenical policy and who was in turn defined by his very public, and frequently unpopular, commitment to defend the victims of Nazi oppression.”

George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles

History & Biography

“In a Victorian religious culture saturated with religious preoccupations and moral anxieties, George MacDonald stands out as a relatively neglected author whose work nonetheless pays careful attention to the intersection of religion and literature. Tim Larsen brilliantly opens up MacDonald's imaginative writing as well as his sermons and essays to demonstrate how closely he followed contemporary interest in Christian doctrine and the challenges it faced in his day. No one who knows Larsen'swork will be surprised at this: with wit, knowledge, and an acute critical intelligence, Larsen picks out again and again the ways in which MacDonald's fiction illustrated or experimented with controverted points of Christian doctrine, yet still functioned as good, readable fiction. A series of other interlocutors comment insightfully on Larsen's chapters and open up further seams of interpretation. For anyone interested in Victorian religious history and literary culture, this is a gem of a book.”