C.E. Hill How did the Church get Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John instead of Thomas, Mary, Peter, and Judas? C. E. Hill presents evidence for how and why, despite the numerous Gospels... | Pope Benedict XVI 2nd volume of the Pope's momentous trilogy on Jesus Christ. |
Roger Scruton Our Church is a dazzling and original personal history the Anglican church and its enduring place in public life by one of our foremost public intellectuals. | David Crystal The King James Bible has contributed more to English than any other source. In this enlightening book David Crystal asks why. He looks at how its words have been given... |
Tom Wright By looking in detail at the Lord's Prayer and its background, Tom Wright offers a really fresh and helpful way of looking at Jesus. Phrase by phrase, he demonstrates how... | Marcus J. Borg; John Dominic Crossan Using the best of biblical and historical scholarship, this title presents a fresh understanding of early Christianity. |
John Cornwell John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. This title tells the story of the chequered attempts to establish Newman's... | Eamon Duffy Catholic popes have been powerful spiritual leaders for nearly two millennia. In an acclaimed series of BBC radio broadcasts, the author enthralled listeners with vivid stories of the ten popes... |
Dave Tomlinson This is a book for people who want God without the guff - showing that it's possible to ditch religion, but keep the faith. | Robert Alter The newest volume in Alter's award-winning, landmark translation of and commentary on the Hebrew Bible focuses on Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. |
Garry Wills An introduction to "Confessions", one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. It tells the story of the "Confessions" - what motivated Augustine to dictate it... | Renovare; Zondervan From timeless classics like The Imitation of Christ to unexpected selections like Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 25 Books Every Christian Should Read... |
Michelle Brown Michelle Brown, former curator at the British Library, gathers together seventy fragile biblical treasures in this sumptuously illustrated volume that captures the development of both Bible and book, as well... | Benjamin Myers The work of Rowan Williams - one of the most fascinating theologians and most controversial church leaders - is virtually without parallel for its extraordinary diversity and complexity. This book... |
Caroline Walker Bynum Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself. | R. Michael Allen Including annotated excerpts from Karl Barth's "Church Dogmatics" and additional essays on Barth's life and work and his place in modern theology, this book offers an introduction to the whole... |