Frances Knight is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Nottingham. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 2021-22. She taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and then the University of Nottingham for many years. She publishes mainly in the areas of the history of the Church of England from the late-eighteenth century to the present and the interactions between religion and culture in Britain in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
This book is brilliant at evoking the culture of serious theological debate and earnest spiritual searching of which Howard was a part. * Church Times * Howard lived a full and interesting life that encompassed spells in the USA,...and he wrote a book which experts still consider the most influential and important in 20th century city planning. With this excellent new study we now better understand the spiritual core of that life. * Andrew Bradstock, Reform * This book is brilliant at evoking the culture of serious theological debate and earnest spiritual searching of which Howard was a part. * William Whyte, Church Times *