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Spiritual Theology
The Theology of Yesterday for Spiritual Help Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
The author turns to the great teachers of the past—Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert—to recover a spirituality that is rich with the doctrines and disciplines of theology.
Consider the Ravens
On Contemporary Hermit Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
If you have ever wondered about how hermits live, or if you are an active participant in the eremitical life, then its time to make this ultimate resource guide part of your book collection.
Written by the editors of Ravens Bread, an international quarterly newsletter that provides guidance...
No Moment Too Small
Rhythms of Silence, Prayer, and Holy Reading
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1994
In No Moment Too Small, Vest focuses on three of the foundations of the Benedictine way: silence, the exploration of Scripture and other spiritual writings (lectio divina), and the hours of prayer. These essentials of Benedict's sixth-century rule of life offer a practical framework for spiritual...
The Spirit of the Disciplines
Understanding How God Changes Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
How to Live as Jesus Lived
Dallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how...
by Ravi Zacharias
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Atheism is a world without God. Its true nature--whether disguised in Eastern mysticism or American cynicism--is despair. In this thought-provoking and witty book, Ravi Zacharias provides Christians a clear apologetic for their faith.
Formerly published as A Shattered Visage, The Real Face...
We Are Theologians
Strengthening the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
A “thoughtful, clear, and stimulating” look at how lay people can fully participate in the life of the church (John Coburn).
With its focus primarily on clergy, Christian churches have often been behind the times in pursuing the fullness of the biblical vision of all the People of God....
Same Sex Marriage
Is There A Leg to Stand On?
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Marriage is a bit like the sun in that no one owns it. If it had a patent it would be God’s patent, one without an expiry date and not available for just anyone to tamper with. I argue that marriage is governed principally by a higher law, a divine one that gives it a transcendent and sacramental...
Choose Life
Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The addresses that Rowan Williams has given in Canterbury Cathedral for Christmas and Easter are small masterpieces of this kind. They constitute part of Rowan Williams' essential legacy to Christian believers.
With a new introduction by Dr Williams, this is the first time these pieces have appeared in print. Perfect reading material for Lent or Advent.
by Roger Ferlo
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
For many people the Bible is strange and unfamiliar territory, impossible to navigate without a certain kind of knowledge and skill. Roger Ferlo leads his readers through the practical difficulties of reading the Bible, offering advice that is true to the way Anglicans have read Scripture from the...
And God Spoke
The Authority of the Bible for the Church Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
His reflections on some of the ways we might answer these questions in the church today became the twelve short chapters of this book. Here scripture scholar and Anglican priest Christopher Bryan looks at the nature of the Bible's authority and inspiration and how the Bible can inform our decision-making...
Between Two Worlds
Daily Readings for Advent
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2003
Advent—the season in which we prepare for the coming of the Savior—provokes a certain ambivalence among modern believers. We know that Christ has come in the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth, and we live anticipating his return, knowing that our true home is one which he has gone ahead to...
Parting Words
A Farewell Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
This collection captures the voice and the vision of a treasured preacher, pastor, and bishop.
And so for these past thirteen-plus years, if there has been one watchword on my lips it has been, “Please be patient with me, 'cause God isn't through with me yet.” And God still is not finished...
Richard Hooker and the Vision of God
Exploring the Origins of 'Anglicanism'
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Finally filling the gap between specialist volumes and ‘companion texts’, Charles Miller's rigorous and well written exploration of the works and theology of Richard Hooker is a comprehensive and critical testament to one of the most important founders of Anglican thought
Miller introduces...
by John Bunyan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
John Bunyan (28 November 1628 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. Though he was a Reformed Baptist, in the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church...