The Fires of Moloch
anglican clergymen in the furnace of world war one
$119.37
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
26 November 2025
Summary
The Furnace Seventeen: Faith Forged in the Fires of WWI
The First World War, the bloodiest conflict in British history, birthed a crisis of faith alongside unprecedented carnage. Amidst the brutal Passchendaele offensive of 1917, seventeen Anglican priests serving as temporary military chaplains united to pen The Church in the Furnace. Their message was a fiery call for the Church of England to embrace radical change in light of the war’s horrors.
These men, forever…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198887751 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198887752 |
| Author: | Timothy Larsen |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 26 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 561g |
| Dimensions: | 163mm x 240mm |
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About The Author
Timothy Larsen
Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College and an Honorary Fellow of the School of Divinity at Edinburgh University. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, All Souls College, Oxford, and Christ Church, Oxford. He is the author of nine books, including The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith (OUP, 2014) and John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life (OUP, 2018), and has edited 14 volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Christmas (2020). He is also the president of the American Society of Church History.
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