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Sects and seekers
The English Soul is a history of Christianity in England from the Venerable Bede to the present, a period of roughly 1,400 years. Its enthralling journey leads us from the medieval mystics, including Julian of Norwich, through the torments of the English Reformation and the exhilarating spread of revivalist and evangelical movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the charismatic Christian movements of more recent times. If the narrative that emerges is principally that of the Established Church and the creation of its High and Low tendencies, it is also one that encounters a shocking array of sects and seekers, doubters and dissenters, ranters and ravers, along the way.
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The English Soul: Faith of a nation
by Peter Ackroyd
Reaktion Books, $39.99 hb, 384 pp
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