An English-language book of the library of fourth-century Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945 which rivaled the Dead Sea Scrolls find in significance.
This Lent book offers imaginative reflections on Christ's crucifixion. Each of the seven chapters is focused on a different key character, who describes his or her experience of the Passion. The nails used to crucify Christ are used as a jumping off point for their reflections.
In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. This edition reprints the original text of 1802, and sets the book in the context of the theological, philosophical, and scientific debates of the nineteenth century.
This informed theology of communication and media analyzes how we consume new media and technologies and discusses the impact on our social and religious lives.
Includes general hymns; hymns for feasts, seasons and saints' days; office hymns for the liturgical year; an enlarged eucharistic section; responsorial psalms; and a new English folk mass setting.
A source book for students of the patristic period and a companion volume to "Creeds, Councils and Controversies" and "Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church". This updated edition incorporates vital documents that were not available when the original collection was compiled.
This thoroughly revised and substantially updated edition contains the best scholarship informed by recent discoveries and anchored in the solid Study Bible tradition. Generations of users attest to its status as the best one-volume Bible reference tool for any home, library, or classroom.
Provides an understanding of the need and task of evangelisation in the Catholic Church from the perspective of the Ecclesial Movements. Drawing out key ideas, some of the stories of this work offer a reflection on the theological foundations of the movements; and some offer us a cultural and theological reflection on the Christian Life.
Twenty years on, this first volume in N. T. Wright's magisterial series, 'Christian Origins and the Question of God', still stands as a major point of reference for students of the New Testament and early Christianity. This latest impression has been completely reset to make Wright's elegant and engrossing text more readable.
This work is based on the premise that to best understand what people say and mean to say, one must first understand the social context from which they speak. In order to understand the New Testament, this means grasping the social system of the Eastern Mediterranean in the first century AD.
Looks at how Nietzsche's most generative and provocative ideas are deeply theological and continue to have relevance in teaching Christians how to be Christians in the world. This title highlights the constructive contributions that can emerge from receptively meeting Nietzsche as modernity's philosophical other.
For Bible readers who love to add their own notes, references and personal reflections, this NIV journalling Bible with wide margins and ruled lines is perfect.
This blue hardback British text NIV Bible with larger than usual print is an ideal addition to any church's stock of pew Bibles. especially for those who find it easier to read bigger text.
A traditional NIV church Bible, with a burgundy hardback binding and larger than usual print which makes it an ideal addition to any church's stock of pew Bibles.
Of Popes and Unicorns shares the story of John Draper and Andrew White who, in the late 19th century, published books falsely claiming a toxic history between religion and science. This book examines the implications of Draper and White's conspiracy and debunks the conflict thesis once and for all.