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The Christians: An Illustrated History surveys the development of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the present day. Writing in an accessible, topical style, the author covers subjects that continue to influence the church and society today. The book is thematically organised and chapters include: Defining faith, Monasticism, Papacy, Orthodoxy, Reformation, Islam and Christianity, Faith and Reason, the Church Year and Ecumenism. The book also surveys key figues such as: Paul, Justin Martyr, Augustine, Innocent III, Abelard, Francis of Assisi, Wyclif, Aquinas, Luther, Loyola, Spener, Moody, Barth, CS Lewis, and Billy Graham. The book is international in scope and is illustrated throughout with full-colour art, photographs, maps, charts and box material.
Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.
Questions have been raised in recent decades about the place of women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in church and society during a time of vast industrial change. These topics are broad, but can be seen in microcosm in one small area of the English Midlands: the parish of Madeley, Shropshire, in which Coalbrookdale became synonymous with the industrial age. Here, the evangelical Methodist clergyman John Fletcher (1729-1785) ministered between 1760 and 1785, among a population including Roman Catholics and Quakers, as well as people indifferent to religion. For nearly sixty years after his death, two women, Fletcher's widow and later her protege, had virtual charge of the parish, which became one of the last examples of Methodism within the Church of England. Through examining this specific locality, with its potential for religious tension and great social significance, this multidisciplinary collection of essays engages with developing areas of research. In addition to furthering knowledge of Madeley parish and its relation to larger themes of religion, gender and industry in eighteenth-century Britain, the impact of the Fletchers in nineteenth-century American Methodism is examined.