Bishops, Wives and Children: Spiritual Capital Across the Generations

by Mathew Guest and Douglas J. Davies

Christianity as a cultural force, whether rising or falling, has seldom been analysed through the actual processes by which tradition is transmitted, modified, embraced or rejected. This book achieves that end through a study of bishops of the Church of England, their wives and their children, to show how values fostered in the vicarage and palace shape family, work and civic life in a supposedly secular age. Davies and Guest integrate, for the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032099747
• ISBN13: 9781032099743
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"