Based on a BBC Scotland history series that explores the great good - and the great harm - that the people of Scotland have experienced in the name of religion, "The Sword and the Cross" concentrates
This text presents an introduction to the work of six scholars the work of whom collectively transformed the study of the early Church. A companion book to the author's "The Early Church", it shows th
City and Sanctuary challenges some common assumptions about the Near East in the Roman and Early Byzantine periods by examining the architecture and urban design of five cities: Palmyra, Petra, Gerasa
Barton is convinced that in many areas of ethical enquiry the Old Testament has much to teach us. He looks again at the Ten Commandments; the narrative about David and his children; the ethical issues
Reflecting on the work of writers such as Salman Rushdie and bands such as the Manic Street Preachers, this Lent book explores the desert in today's world and teaches us to hear the voices of these un
This pocket-sized text contains forms of words for administering the sacraments and other rites of the Church. Each is printed in full for practical convenience, making it useful for priests and paris
This collection of words spoken by Ronald Blythe in the churches he served as Reader in the Church of England follow various paths into old and new liturgies, literature and the local countryside. Bly
A Critique of Pastoral Care is firmly established as a classic text in the field of pastoral theology. The book is now reissued in a third edition which contains a significant new concluding chapter a
Professor Hengel examines the external historical evidence for the creation of the Gospels by those documenting the early church, like Papias and Irenaeus. He also analyzes the origin of the uniform t
A biography of Reinhold Niebuhr, 20th-century theologian and political philosopher, written by Niebuhr's last graduate assistant. Chronicles Niebuhr's passion for creating an "intellectually equipped,
These are Augustine's writings from the time of his conversion to Christianity in AD 386 until he became Bishop of Hippo in 395-396. Included are eight of the most important treatises from this period
Rainer Maria Rilke, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Emily Dickinson, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud and the Tao Te Ching are just some of the influences evident in this book which brings poetry to bear on theolo
