Un o dadau cenedlaetholdeb modern yw Emrys ap Iwan (1848–1906), y pregethwr Methodist o Ddyffryn Clwyd. Hon yw’r gyfrol gyntaf arno sy’n dadansoddi’n fanwl seiliau beiblaidd a chrefyddol ei weledigaeth. Mae’n cloriannu ei gefndir a’i fagwraeth, ei addysg yng Ngholeg y Bala ac ar y cyfandir, y dylanwadau Ewropeaidd arno, a’r modd yr aeth ati i ddwyn perswâd ar ei gyfoeswyr i ymwrthod â’r bydolwg Prydeinig a Seisnig. Ceir yn ei homilïau athrawiaeth Gristnogol aeddfed a gwâr, wedi’i mynegi me...

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 i...

Winner of the 2021 Francis Jones Prize for Welsh History.As well as outlining the shape of Welsh religious history generally, this volume describes the development of Calvinistic Methodist thought up to and beyond the secession from the Established Church in 1811, and the way in which the Evangelical Revival impacted the Older Dissent to create a vibrant popular Nonconformity. Along with analysing aspects of theology and doctrine, the narrative assesses the contrib...

Winner of the 2021 Francis Jones Prize for Welsh History.The first of a two-volume analysis of theology in Wales, this volume begins with the publication of Bishop William Morgan’s Bible in 1588 and concludes with the first phase of the Evangelical Revival in 1760. It assesses the development of Puritanism and of doctrine within the Church of England, Dissenting theology including Calvinism and Arminianism, the doctrinal vision of Griffith Jones Llanddowror, and th...

This edited volume discusses the contribution of Thomas Charles of Bala (1755-1814) to the life of Wales on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death. Comprising the latest research by twelve experts in their fields, it covers his work in education, religion, literacy, scholarship, lexicography and culture. Thomas Charles was one of the architects of modern Wales and this book, the most detailed work on the subject to be published for over a century, will be of great interest to cultura...

A comprehensive study of the work of Lewis Edwards (1809-87), Wales's foremost scholar of the nineteenth century, and one who raised the standard of Nonconformist Wales erudition. A Calvinistic Methodist in his upbringing and through conviction, he was a pious man belonging to his era.

This really is a readable, accessible introduction that takes account of some of the most recent Barth scholarship."It is highly recommended for those coming to Barth's work for the first time." Oliver D. Crisp, Reader in Theology, University of BristolD. Densil Morgan makes Barth's often complex, rich and provocative thinking accessible to a wide audience. He provides an introduction to the daunting, multi volume The Church Dogmatics, sketches the central ...

Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years. Biblical place names, an urban and rural landscape littered with churches, chapels, crosses and sacred sites, a bardic and literary tradition deeply imbued with Christian themes in both the Welsh and English languages, and the songs sung by tens of thousands of rugby supporters at the natio...