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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... |
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... | 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... |
Rebecca Solnit An inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others. | 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... |
Andrew White Canon Andrew White is a peacemaker, who has saved hundreds of individuals and communities. This book is based on his insights. | 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... |
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... | 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... |
A. C. Grayling Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small... | M. A. S. Abdel Haleem; Hugh Kennedy;... Drawing millions of pilgrims annually, the Hajj is a powerful bond that brings Muslims together from across the world. Tracing the footsteps and personal experiences of pilgrims across the centuries... |
Donald O'Reilly In AD383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a mass grave. Eucherius identified the bodies as those... | Derek Wilson The story of how the King James Version came to be written. |