Twelve Churches
An unlikely history of the buildings that made Christianity
$25.93
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2026
Summary
With 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.
In 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, vainglo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399731324 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399731327 |
| Author: | Fergus Butler-Gallie |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Fergus Butler-Gallie
The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie is a writer and priest who has ministered in parishes in Liverpool and Central London. He grew up amidst a large family of maniacs, was then educated at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and has spent time living and working in the Czech Republic and South Africa.
He is the author of the bestselling Times and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year A Field Guide to the English Clergy and the Spectator Book of the Year Priests de la Resistance!
He speaks regularly on radio, has written numerous articles for The Times, Independent, Guardian, Church Times, The Critic and The Fence, and won the 2022 P. G. Wodehouse Essay Prize. He is currently Vicar of Charlbury.
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