Christian Living Books

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

‘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...

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...

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...

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

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....

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

In a discussion on how counsellors integrate prayer and professional practice, someone asked why it had taken so long for someone to ask such an ob...

Simple faith is simply to journey in trust, like a baby, but with the wounds and scars of an adult, like a man who died on a cross, and invites us ...

The season of Lent is a privileged time of the year. It offers us the opportunity to stand back from our daily activities and cares, and to ask: ‘W...

By declaring Jeanne Jugan, the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, to be a saint, the Church is proclaiming her holiness. The Little Siste...

Participating in God claims that a doctrine of the Trinity cannot be developed in isolation from pastoral experience. It is not sufficient to view ...

‘The resurrection of Jesus is the ground of the Church’s being. It is the ground of every Christian’s hope. The present is not everything: there is...

Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? What if . . .? Science fiction delights in asking old questions in new ways. Rather than being primarily...

For many of us, healing is needed only when we are ‘sick’, and is offered by an elite of specially trained ‘experts’ to weak or vulnerable people w...

‘I view my rage as a productive emotion, which has power to save and transform … my rage is a catalyst for personal and social change consistent wi...

This fascinating book introduces to the English-speaking world N. F. S. Grundtvig, the preacher, poet, scholar and politician who played a crucial ...

Bonnie Thurston has written many books and articles about spirituality and prayer, and is a leading authority on the work of Thomas Merton. But For...

Former Archbishop of York John Habgood takes the question of faith as a starting point for the exploration of a wide variety of topics - from scien...

As a child of three, Gerard Hughes said the word 'God' to see what would happen. God, Where Are You? is an exploration of God's answer echoing down...

This book explores the way in which we understand the story of our salvation - the fundamental narrative which irreplaceably informs Christian livi...

Reading the Old Testament is intended for students who have already learned some of the techniques of biblical study, and would like to explore the...