Faith and Works

For a man who, in his youth, regarded the Church as something at odds with his world-view, John Neville Greaves would little have expected to spend his life`s work as a servant of God. This memoir charts his experiences as a priest in the many and diverse parishes of the north of England throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, a time during which the Church saw enormous changes, not to mention those that secular society underwent. Greaves here records and considers his responses to the modern world`s detractors, distractions and challenges to the Christian faith, avoiding dogma and instead viewing the whole thing through a prism of ever-changing politics, of doctrine and nature, while never losing sight of a benevolent and ever-loving God at the helm.