Walking to Emmaus

Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He is the author of The Stripping of the Altars, Reformation Divided and Royal Books and Holy Bones and appears regularly on radio and television as an authority on religion and the Reformation in England

This book is stimulating and inspiring, and is recommended both for devotional reading and for serious Bible study. In fact the complex arguments and cross-references are such that one can profit most by reading and pondering upon them...One can read, and then read again, this remarkable book, finding in it a great deal of food for thought.

• Introduction1. Among the Tombs2. When I remember, I am afraid...3. Let us Now Praise Famous Men4. The Fish Breakfast5. The Gospel and Culture6. On Not Quite Starting Again7. The Man in the Crowd8. The Walk to Emmaus9. Ascension10. Christ the King11. Mary Magdalene12. The Terrible Joy13. Heavenly Jerusalem14. Light in the Darkness