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Theological Reflection:
Sources
Elaine Graham, Heather Walton, Frances Ward
 
Theological Reflections: Sources, is the companion volume to Theological Reflection: Methods, SCM Press 2005 Following the same topics as the Methods volume, this reader iss for students and academics alike, interested in the expanding volume of work and research surrounding theological reflection. Brought together in this second volume are materials relating to the same topics and dealt with by the same divisions, descriptions and features. Volume one described and identified the various models whilst this new second volume fleshes out these descriptions by allowing the reader access to a variety of sources and examples of writings within each of these models of theological reflection.
 
SCM Press
£25.00
 
 
 
 
Sacred Space
House of God, Gate of Heaven
Ed. Philip North & John North
 
Since the most ancient times, there has always been a close connection between sacredness and specific places, whether mountains and springs or sacred groves and temples. If the divine power is at home in a particular place, it must follow that the worshipper should travel there, at whatever cost in money or suffering to her or him.
This book is being published to mark the 75th anniversary of the revival of the Anglican shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham, one of the great centres of pilgrimage in medieval times.
 
Continuum
£14.99
 
 
Wrestling With Angels
Conversations in Modern Theology
Rowan Williams
 
Wrestling with Angels brings together a thoughtful collection of writings by Rowan Williams spanning the years between 1978 and 1998. They focus on his insightful engagement with a wide range of modern theologians and philosophers ranging from Vladimir Lossky, whose work was a key impetus early in Williams career, through a range of classic figures including Hegel, Wittgenstein, Weil and Girard, as well as Barth, Bonhoeffer, Rahner and Von Balthasar, and on to more recent figures such as Don Cupitt, Maurice Wiles, Gillian Rose and Marilyn McCord Adams.
 
The key themes explored across these essays are negative theology, postmodernity, violence, innocence, divine action and the nature of historical development in theology. Brought together in this volume, they illuminate Williams powerful coherent theological vision.
 
SCM Press
£21.99
 
 
 
 
Tokens of Trust
An Introduction to Christian Belief
Rowan Williams.
 
What are the essentials of Christian belief ? In the first three hundred years of the Church's existence, explorations of of this question produced the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed - basic statements of belief which have shown themselves remarkably durable, and which are still held in common by all the world's major Christian bodies, despite the many problems the Church has faced.
 
Yet they are not simply a theological checklist for regulating religious belief. They show us who and what we can trust in this world and offer us a glimpse of another world- one in which our lives, as individuals and together, can be utterly transformed. In Tokens of Trust Rowan Williams looks at the implications of saying 'I believe' to the great claims of the Creeds.
 
Canterbury Press
£9.99
 
 
Re- Thinking Christianity
Keith Ward
The Christian faith is often charged with being outmoded and anachronistic. Many critics have claimed that it is a monolithic belief system rooted in the past, and that it lacks the resources to adapt to modern society's needs and advances. In Re- thinking Christianity, Keith Ward argues persuasively that this view is not only uncharitable, but refuted by historical evidence.
 
£16.99
One World Publications.
 
 
Jesus For The Non- Religious
John Shelby Spong
 
Writing from his prison cell in Nazi Germany in 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologian, sketched a vision of what he called "religionless Christianity". In this book, John Shelby Spong puts flesh onto the bare bones of Bonhoeffer's radical thought. The result is a strikingly new and different portrait of Jesus of Nazareth- a Jesus for the non- religious.
 
Harper
£14.99
 
 
 
 
 
Amazing Grace
Eric Metaxas
Amazing Grace is a timely reminder that all are equal before the Creator. No person has the right to own another.
William Wilberforce's mission to abolish slavery is far from accomplished. It is to our shame that an estimated 27 million people (50% 0f all victims are children) in the world today still suffer from various forms of slavery.
 
Monarch Books
£11.99
 
 
 
Hostage in Iraq
Norman Kember
 
"Norman Kember has shown how to behave with dignity and humanity after terrifying and degrading experiences. In an age when everybody seizes any opportunity to play the role of embittered victim, demanding maximum revenge, Kember shows the rare, now almost extinct, qualities of restraint and forgiveness".
(Peter Wilby, New Statesman)
 
Darton Longman and Todd
£14.95
 
 
Through The Eye of a Needle
Theological Conversations Over Political Economy
John Atherton & Hannah Skinner Eds
 
Recent interest of comment on economic affairs has identified an unfinished agenda of work for what it means to be Christian and Church through a decisive abd creative interaction with what it means to be ethically adequate political economy for the twenty- first century.
 
Epworth
£19.99
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Faithful Cities, A Call for celebration, vision and justice.
 
The Report form the Commission on Urban Life and Faith.
"What makes a good city ?" In seeking to answer that question, Faithful Cities examines the dramatic changes in the nature of urban life that have taken place in the last 20 years.
 
'It is a challenge we need to hear, and we should be profoundly grateful to the writers of this report for setting it before us with such a wealth of narrative, analysis and vision...'
Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
 
Church House Publishing
£9.99
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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