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'Disability', Theology, and Digitality (2025)
Book Chapter
Kurlberg, J., & Kurlberg, N. (in press). 'Disability', Theology, and Digitality. In Oxford Handbook of Digital Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Receptive Ecumenism in a Synodal Catholic Church (2024)
Book Chapter
Ryan, G. A. (2024). Receptive Ecumenism in a Synodal Catholic Church. In J. A. Berry, & V. Coman (Eds.), Living Tradition: Continuity and Change as Challenges to Churches and Theologies (276-290). Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

'The Father of Lights': St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio on Light (2024)
Book Chapter
Crozier, W. 'The Father of Lights': St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio on Light. In V. Henkelmann, & M. Brietenstien (Eds.), Medieval Light Studies: The Presence, Use, and Symbolism of Light in the Middle Ages. Manuscript submitted for publication

Catherine of Braganza, Queen Dowager of England, 1685–1692: Catholicism and Political Agency (2023)
Book Chapter
Gregory, E. (2023). Catherine of Braganza, Queen Dowager of England, 1685–1692: Catholicism and Political Agency. In Later Stuart Queens, 1660-1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage (45-70). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38813-2_3

This chapter assesses Catherine of Braganza’s political exercise of her queen dowagership from her widowhood in 1685 until 1692 when she left England to return to Portugal. Catherine’s new position as queen dowager offered her fresh prospects in her... Read More about Catherine of Braganza, Queen Dowager of England, 1685–1692: Catholicism and Political Agency.

Catholics, War and Britain's Armed Forces (2023)
Book Chapter
Snape, M. (2023). Catholics, War and Britain's Armed Forces. In A. Harris (Ed.), The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Vol V (77-104). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844310.003.0005

The history of Catholics and war in the British Isles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is an oddly side-lined area of research, yet it provides not only a broad and dramatic context to that history but reveals much about the underlying nat... Read More about Catholics, War and Britain's Armed Forces.

Clerical Abuse (2023)
Book Chapter
Daly, M. E., & Pound, M. (2023). Clerical Abuse. In A. Harris (Ed.), The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Vol V: Recapturing the Apostolate of the Laity, 1914-2021 (308-333). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844310.003.0016

From the 1990s onwards a series of child sexual, physical, and emotional abuse allegations and convictions involving male and female Catholic clergy and religious began to gain public attention in Britain, Ireland, and internationally. This chapter e... Read More about Clerical Abuse.

Apostolic till the very end: The contribution of older Roman Catholic sisters' experience of ageing to the evolving identity of women's religious life (2023)
Book Chapter
Sexton, C. (2023). Apostolic till the very end: The contribution of older Roman Catholic sisters' experience of ageing to the evolving identity of women's religious life. In N. Slee, D. Llewellyn, K. Wasey, & L. Taylor-Guthartz (Eds.), Female Faith Practices: Qualitative Research Perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003228431-19

This chapter explores the experience of ministry among elderly Roman Catholic sisters for whom ministry is now home-based and focussed primarily on each other and those who care for them. It is based on interviews conducted with a group of elderly Ca... Read More about Apostolic till the very end: The contribution of older Roman Catholic sisters' experience of ageing to the evolving identity of women's religious life.

Two Ways to Read the Bible in the (Very) Long Reformation (2023)
Book Chapter
Ryrie, A. (2023). Two Ways to Read the Bible in the (Very) Long Reformation. In A. French (Ed.), Reading the Reformations: Theologies, Cultures and Beliefs in an Age of Change (308-326). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004521247

In the 1630s, William Chillingworth famously and misleadingly claimed that ‘the Bible only is the religion of Protestants’. This chapter asks: in what sense? Plainly the Bible was central to Protestantism, but in what way? Against the positions advan... Read More about Two Ways to Read the Bible in the (Very) Long Reformation.

The Ecumenical Council of Dordt (2022)
Book Chapter
Ryrie, A. (2022). The Ecumenical Council of Dordt. In H. van der Belt, K. W. de Jong, & W. van Vlastuin (Eds.), A Landmark in Turbulent Times: The Meaning and Relevance of the Synod of Dordt (1618–1619) (23-36). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

This article examines the Synod of Dordt by comparing it to the historic model of General or Ecumenical Councils. This was a category of church assembly which Reformed Protestants venerated and often aspired to, but which also posed vexing ecclesiolo... Read More about The Ecumenical Council of Dordt.

Miscellaneous (285 entries) (2022)
Book Chapter
Mills, M. J. (2022). Miscellaneous (285 entries). In A. Louth (Ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. (4th ed.). Oxford University Press