Religion

Was Nero the Antichrist? The bestial image of the Roman emperor as the enemy of Christians persists, but the truth is more complex.

Views of the afterlife in early Christianity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the earliest establishment figures to denounce the Nazi regime. In April 1945, his quiet resistance led him to the scaffold.

The cultural politics of papal Rome.

Tracing Karl Marx’s Jewish ancestry.

With the aim of converting souls rather than punishing them, the Jesuits were vital collaborators in the Roman Inquisition.

In the Victorian countryside, what did going to church on Sundays actually mean?

Medieval French monarchs used – and abused – the charismatic power of religious women.

Christian thinkers whose lives and thoughts connected in 1943, when it looked like the Allies were on top and minds turned to the future.