"60 years after publication, the report Towards the conversion of England continues to excite new readers. Geoff Pearson ... offers a personal reflection on the original report, showing not only its continued relevance but also how the challenges it lays down may be taken up in practice in our new context."--Back cover.
The mission of St Augustine of Canterbury and the subsequent conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity had dramatic political, social and cultural implications as well as religious ones. The...
This text offers a critical re-evaluation of the process of conversion which assesses what the act really meant to new converts, who was responsible for it, and why particular figures both accepted conversion for themselves and threw their ...