The All Saints Lecture

Bijan Omrani will talk about his new book, in which he shows how Christianity has been part of our national story for over 1700 years and was instrumental in the creation and development of the English nation, its codes of law and morality, and its structures of government and kingship, with profound cultural impacts in areas ranging from architecture and literature to our very landscape and the structure of our everyday life and language. He ends with a rousing call to retain Christianity, rightly understood, as a way of dealing with both the eternal questions of the human condition, as well as the malaises of modernity, this is an erudite and tender tribute to our Christian history and heritage.

Bijan is a British historian, journalist, teacher, barrister and author of Persian descent. His work ranges from Classical scholarship to cultural and religious history, as well as current affairs across Asia.

The lecture will be followed by questions and a glass of wine and a chance to meet the author.