Christian Life

Robert Song considers some of the fundamental causal factors - attitudes and beliefs as well as scientific and commercial pressures - which have go...

Controversy about the morality of euthanasia and assisted suicide and their legalisation has been running for over a generation, and it shows no si...

If we are to reach people with the Christian vision we must abandon our tired religious languages. The starting point lies further back: in the ord...

This handsome facsimile edition of Trollope’s insightful and entertaining clerical portraits is introduced by Michael Mayne and contains charming i...

This series of short books for Christians is designed to help readers cope with those things in life that create pressure, confusion, anger, worry ...

This journal was written during the last year of Henri Nouwen's life, ending shortly before his death in 1996. In it, he describes his struggles wi...

Theology and the Church have become peripheral to the secular world of postmodern, early Twenty-first Century Britain. Seeking transcendent resourc...

A stunningly original re-imagining of the Catholic faith by one of the most lucid and exciting theologians writing in English today. Widely acclaim...

Mark D. Chapman examines the life and works of Conrad Noel, one of the most eccentric, dynamic and radical parish priests of the twentieth century....

How should the Eucharist be celebrated? What is the significance of the different parts of the liturgy, from the gathering rite, through the liturg...

Undivided Heart is a book about what drives us – reflecting on our motivation and purpose, and need to define ourselves. It leads the reader into t...

Each of us has a 'shadow', composed of everything we have driven into our unconscious for fear of being rejected by the people we loved when we wer...

‘The world is on a trajectory that threatens the security, freedom and human rights of all of us, not just the poor’, writes Ian Linden. ‘Yet we al...

Tells the story of the movement’s origins and describes how the distinctive Quaker practice of group worship in silence develop. The Quaker traditi...

Are you suffering from a deep loss in your life? How to Love Again is a book that can offer you comfort in a time of despair. It is intended to acc...

What is your personal mission in life? Many of us find it hard to answer this question, as day-to-day concerns can cause us to lose sight of the bi...

Suppose for a moment that it is the present way in which we are being church that is not working? If that is the case, then no amount of new thinki...

At the age of 44, after a prominent career as a Catholic activist, Carlo Carretto was summoned by a voice that said: 'Leave everything, come with m...

Orthodoxy is often identified with beautiful icons, elaborate liturgy, perfection as deification, and the vision of God as light. But there is a de...

Anabaptist spirituality has been described as ‘both Catholic and Protestant’, a sixteenth-century ascetic lay reform movement inspired both by curr...

Part personal memoir and part reflection on the challenges that face the Church in the contemporary world. A vision for the future of the Church ma...

A radical theological reappraisal of the church’s position on cohabitation before marriage. Most adults in Europe and North America now believe it ...

Where do we find value and purpose in a world riven by injustice and conflict? What is it that makes life meaningful and cherishable? Is there any ...

The first occupant of Lambeth Palace in several generations with an international reputation as a theologian, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan...

Your life is made of time. But what does your lifetime mean? The Myths of Time is an original and stimulating examination of the theology of time a...

This book provides insight into the growing phenomenon of religious inspired violence, and an analysis of the political world’s failure to understa...

Superb popular history that undermines many of our preconceptions about Patrick and reveals several surprises. The search for ‘the real Saint Patri...

'The Church of England is locked in a terrible, terrible dilemma. It has depended on establishment for its unity, its coherence, its order, its ide...

What is the place of religious belief modern culture? Recent years have seen cataclysmic changes in society, yet, far from being banished from toda...

A dense haze of controversial issues lies over any honest discussion of the Catholic priesthood: the scandal of sexual abuse by priests; the sharp ...

Jack Dominian is a distinguished psychiatrist and the author of several influential books that have helped to revolutionise the way Catholics think...

Violent crime including gang warfare and the use of firearms affects many urban communities, with a growing number of alarming incidents reported i...

Exploring God-talk maps the contours of religious language. It surveys the variety of ways in which religious believers both speak to God and speak...

Scott Hahn has brought a deep understanding of the scriptural roots of the Church’s teaching and a new verve and freshness of language to mainstrea...

Ann Lloyd’s only previous memories of religion had been of bossy nuns and boring assemblies at primary school. When she was shown a way of praying ...

Celebrating Difference, Staying Faithful is the indispensable guide to living in our multi-religious society for every individual, parish or church...

The influence of evangelicalism within the Christian churches has never been stronger. This new study reveals the breadth and range of what has bee...

Alexander Ryrie offers an exciting way of using the Psalms in our spiritual lives, rooted in both scholarship and a sympathetic feel for the litera...

Many people see the gospel story of Martha and Mary as presenting a choice between the spiritual and the material. This places an impossible burden...

In 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer asked ‘Who is Christ for us today?’ In this theologically informed and very practical exploration of what it means to ...

Family Fortunes acknowledges the particular challenges facing today’s families and seeks new and creative possibilities for nurturing faith in toda...

Julian of Norwich has achieved an extraordinarily wide following amongst Christians. Some people respond to her acute and penetrating theology, som...

Thérèse of Lisieux is among today’s most popular and best-loved saints. Yet she entered a Carmelite convent when she was fifteen and died when she ...

The Dart of Longing Love is a companion volume to the warmly received Enfolded in Love, and seeks to do for the fourteenth century Cloud of Unknowi...

Teresa of Avila presents herself to us as a woman caught between her passion for the things of this world and an equal passion for God. After twent...