Archbishop Sarah Mullally
Examining the formation of Dame Sarah Mullally's character and priorities, and the shaping of her Christian faith, this biography offers insight into what drives the first female Archbishop of Canterbury forward, and how she is likely to navigate the many debates raging across church and nation.
Archbishop Sarah Mullally: A Biography is an authoritative study of the first woman to be Archbishop of Canterbury in Anglicanism's 1,400-year history. Engagingly written and expertly told, Atherstone's biography charts Dame Sarah's distinguished career and her rapid rise through the ranks of two of Britain's most important institutions: the National Health Service and the Church of England. In nursing, she rose from a student trainee to become the youngest ever Chief Nursing Officer in the Department of Health. In the Church, she began as a volunteer curate, rising through parish rectory and cathedral canonry to become the first female Bishop of London, and now the first female Archbishop. Her appointment is a defining moment not only for the Church of England but for international Christianity.
Andrew Atherstone is Professor of Modern Anglicanism at the University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow and Latimer Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
He has published widely on modern Christian history, especially the evangelical, Anglican, and charismatic movements, for both general and scholarly audiences. His recent scholarly books include, as co-editor, The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism (Routledge, 2018), Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (Routledge, 2019), The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism (OUP, 2022) and Repackaging Christianity: Alpha and the Building of a Global Brand (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022)
Andrew is the biographer of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Justin Welby: Risktaker and Reconciler (DLT, 2013).