This is the first full-length history of 20th-century Christianity in Wales. Beginning with a description of religion and its place in society in 1914, it assesses the effect which the Great War made on people's spiritual convictions and on religious opinion and practise. It proceeds to analyse the state of the disestablished church in Wales, an increasingly confident Catholicism and the growing inter-war crisis of Nonconformity. Liberal Theology and the Social Gospel, the fundamentalist impulse and the churches response to economic dislocation and political change are discussed, as is the much less traumatic effect of the Second World War.

About the Author
D. Densil Morgan is Professor in the School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, University of Wales Trinity St. David.

Reviews
'...substantial and attractively written...this volume meets a real need and should be heartily welcomed by social and cultural historians as well as theologians...' Expository Times 'This is a tour de force. Always maintaining a grasp of the wider picture yet copiously illuminated by appropriate statistical material, citation and anecdote...it deserves to be high on the reading list of anyone who wishes to follow the vicissitudes of Christianity in Wales in the last century.' Journal of Beliefs and Values



Book Information
ISBN 9780708323977
Author Densil D. Morgan
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint University of Wales Press
Publisher University of Wales Press
Weight(grams) 386g