Walking to Emmaus

Eamon Duffy is best known as an historian of the papacy, and of grass-roots religion in late medieval and Reformation England. But he is also a religious believer, concerned with the practical expression of Christian faith in the modern world. In a previous collection of essays, Faith of Our Fathers, he reflected on the relationship between change and permanence underlying the profound transformations of the Roman Catholic tradition since the Second Vatican Council. In this new book, made up of addresses delivered mostly to university congregations, he turns from the concerns of a particular denomination, to consider the light for living which the Christian message offers in a world where traditional certainties and values often seem in flux. These addresses are all, in one way or another, reflections on the central affirmations of the Christian faith, but they were addressed in most cases to congregations which included not only the religiously committed, but also many who would not describe themselves as believers at all. Book jacket.

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and President of Magdalene College