The Great Unfrocked - Two Thousand Years of Church Scandal

Robson Books, 1998. Wear/creasing at top of dustjacket spine, otherwise good secondhand copy.

Religious ministers are far more imaginative sinners than politicians, Times columnist Matthew Parris has discovered. Runaway Bishops and naughty vicars are a staple of today's tabloid newspapers, but as he reveals in The Great Unfrocked, they're only a part of the tradition of colourful clerics dating back centuries. The author's funny and well-researched study draws heavily on many previously unpublished sources and offers engaging proof that people don't always practise what they preach...