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George Hodges
George Hodges was an American Episcopal theologian, born at Rome, New York, and educated at Hamilton College. He served at Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1881 to 1894. In 1893 he helped establish the Kingsley Association in Pittsburgh, an organization dedicated to helping immigrant workers. Afterward, he became the dean of the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The high esteem in which his religious messages are held by the reading public" resulted in a number of his books being reissued as a second edition in 1914.
Books by George Hodges
When the King Came: Stories from the Four Gospels
This tells how once the King of Glory came from heaven to visit us here on earth and live amongst us; how He was born in Bethlehem and brought up in Nazareth; how He went about telling people of the Heavenly Kingdom, and doing good, ministering to th...
Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages
Though these stories of the lives of twenty saints and heroes of the faith, we have an introduction to the history of the church from 3rd century A.D. to the Reformation. These stories chronicle their lives and sacrifices for the faith. These saints...
Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages Volume 2
In this second volume, Hodges uses stories of the lives of fourteen well-known saints and heroes of the faith to continue the history of the church from the end of the Reformation through the 1700s. These stories recount their lives and sacrifices fo...
Fountains Abbey; the story of a mediaeval monastery
The story of Fountains Abbey, one of England's most famous medieval monasteries, from its foundation in the twelfth century to its suppression at the time of the Reformation; with a description of its various buildings, and an account of the daily li...