Peter Allen explores the origins and history of the influential secret society the Cambridge Apostles.

List of illustrations; Preface; Textual note; 1. The spirit of the Society; 2. The Society in its first years; 3. Thomas Sunderland and the Cambridge Union; 4. Maurice: the making of a Victorian prophet; 5. Maurice: the rise of Apostolic theology; 6. The mystics; 7. The Spanish adventure; 8. The Society in the early thirties; 9. Arthur Hallam; 10. The Round Table in the thirties and forties; 11. The Sterling Club; 12. The old order and the new; Appendix; Notes; Index.