This wide-ranging historical survey provides an indispensable resource for all those concerned with exploring, teaching or studying English spirituality. All the main Christian traditions and a vast range of writers and spiritual themes, from Anglo-Saxon poems to late modern feminist spirituality, are included. Many lesser known figures and movements feature alongside the more famous names. The volumes are designed to give some idea of the astonishing richness and variety of responses made by English Christians to the call of the divine during the past two thousand years.