{"product_id":"twelve-churches","title":"Twelve Churches","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781399731317\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e best book of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'brilliantly inventive'. -\u003cb\u003e Tom Holland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'learned, highly informative and readable'. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'thoughtful, humane and open-minded'. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A brilliant book'. - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'witty writing'. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Hugely accomplished and endlessly readable'. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith his trademark reverence and revelry, The Revd. Fergus Butler-Gallie travels through time and place to get to the heart of the religion he is so passionate about. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book he takes us from Bethlehem and the birth of Christ some 2000-odd years ago, to the immediate present and future of Christianity. He brings together a Baptist Church in the segregationist American South with a medieval monastery in the heart of the Greek countryside; the Vatican - beautiful, imposing, vainglorious, the seat of Catholicism - with a sparse, tiny private church above the rocky coastline of Southern Japan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwelve Churches\u003c\/i\u003e is a quest for a new people's history of Christianity, told through the stories of twelve churches scattered across the globe. Through a patchwork of interlinking and varied human stories, Butler-Gallie takes us on a physical and historical journey, exploring the role of hope, faith and beauty in Christianity, but also its fraught relationships with sex, violence and power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story of Christianity is, he shows, the story of our modern world: it's a story of who we should be, as well who we sometimes are","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41940210385029,"sku":"PR402159","price":43.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/twelve-churches_TNXPSL1QSGCC.jpg?v=1790624520","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/twelve-churches","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}