Preface; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction Alec Ryrie; 1. Two aspects of early Christian faith Teresa Morgan; 2. A clash between Paideia and Pneuma? Ecstatic women prophets and theological education in the second-century church Josef Lossl; 3. From institution to inspiration: why the Friars Minor became Franciscans Neslihan senocak; 4. Trinitarian hagiography in late Medieval England: rewriting St Robert of Knaresborough in Latin verse Hazel J. Hunter Blair; 5. A church 'without stain or wrinkle': the reception and application of Donatist arguments in debates over priestly purity Helen Parish; 6. The institutionalization of the congregational singing of metrical psalms in the Elizabethan Reformation Andrew Poxon; 7.

Inspiration and institution in Catholic missionary martyrdom accounts: Japan and New France, 1617-49 Rhiannon Teather; 8. The Jesuitesses in the bookshop: Catholic Lay Sisters' participation in the Dutch book trade, 1650-1750 (Kennedy Prize) Elise Watson; 9. Seeking the seekers (Presidential Address) Alec Ryrie; 10. 'A blessed and glorious work of God, . attended with some irregularity': managing Methodist revivals, c.1740-1800 (President's Prize) Clive Murray Norris; 11. Continuing revelation and institutionalization: Joseph Smith, Ralph Waldo Emerson and charismatic leadership in antebellum America Claudia Jetter; 12. Visions and realities in Hong Kong Anglican Mission Schools, 1849-1941 Tim Yung; 13.

Led by the spirit and the Church: Finland's licensed Lutheran lay preachers, c.1870-1923 Matleena Sopanen; 14. The early years of the Christian endeavour movement: innovation and consolidation at a local level, 1881-1914 Roger Ottewill; 15. Inspiration and institution in 1960s Anglican radicalism: the cases of Nick Stacey and John Robinson Sam Brewitt-Taylor; 16. 'Old-time religion in a new-fashioned way': the ministry of 'Billy' Richards, 1943-74 Grant Masom; 17. The Church of America and the Heresy of Peace Dominic Erdozain.