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C. S. Lewis A guide that comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. It details his paralysing... | Selina O'Grady And Man Created God is a sweeping exploration of the religions of the world at the time of Jesus: this is popular history at its best. |
Geoffrey Parrinder An essential introduction to the influence of Jesus in contemporary Qur'anic teachings | The SPCK Lectionary provides a streamlined and clearly laid-out presentation of the Common Worship calendar and lectionary, with BCP readings on the same page. Sundays and major festivals are covered... |
Richard Holloway At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood... | Steve Jones The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern... |
Eduardo Galeano Shows us how to remember and how to live. This book is shaped like a calendar. Each day brings with it a story: a journey, feast or tragedy that really... | Diarmaid MacCulloch How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book describes not only the main facts, ideas and... |
Tom Holland In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished for ever, while... | Diarmaid MacCulloch Unravels polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. The author considers the mixed attitudes of Judaism to silence, Jewish and Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the... |
David Pawson A unique overview of both the Old and New Testaments, from a widely respected evangelical speaker and writer. | Karen Armstrong The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle... |
John Gray At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. This title raises questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality... | Rowan Williams The life of Thomas Merton was, to a great extent, one of dialogue with people who were either distant or dead. While forging just such a relationship with him, the... |
Oliver Bullough The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia's attempts to add them to its empire. Travelling from... | Juan Mascaro; Juan Mascaro "The Upanishads" represent for the Hindu approximately what the New Testament represents for the Christian. The earliest of these spiritual treatises, which vary greatly in length, were put down in... |