Seeking God’s Kingdom
The Non-Conformist Social Gospel in Wales 1906-1939
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
1. Preface to the Second Edition
2. Discovering Jerusalem
3. Wales and the Social Gospel
4. A Crisis of Faith
5. The Question of Context
2. Discovering Jerusalem
3. Wales and the Social Gospel
4. A Crisis of Faith
5. The Question of Context
Review Quotes
Religion & Theology: A Journal of Contemporary Religious Discourse
“A fascinating and thorough exploration of the development of theology in Wales from the end of the great religious awaking in 1906 to the outbreak of the Second World War. The author does justice to the immediacy of the Welsh social, intellectual and political environment, but the broader international perspective is not forgotten, which raises important comparative questions for the history of religion. Seeking God’s Kingdom thus provides a much-needed account in English of a vital but hitherto neglected period in Welsh religious history. It is of value not only to the theologian but also to intellectual and social historians of this period.”
The Expository Times
“This is a well-focused work, analytical in its approach, dealing with a crucial period in the history of religious practice and theological interpretation in Wales—all told, we have here a significant move forward in the study of religion within its social dimensions which have filled a yawning gap in historical scholarship in modern Wales.”
David W. Bebbington | Theology
“Robert Pope has done for Wales what nobody has done for England. He has written a study of the thought of the period in the early twentieth century when theologians were trying to come up with answers to the questions posed by the state of society.”—
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