Continuum imprint: 595 books
by Elizabeth A. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of...
Scars
Essays, Poems and Meditations on Affliction
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Paul Murray is not only an academic, a preacher and published poet, he is also a superb pastor. During his ministry, he has dealt with some extraordinary people - not least a South African who was convicted of murder and hanged under Apartheid. Drawing on this remarkable experience, the reader is...
by Timothy Radcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
What is the Point of Being a Christian? has been awarded the prestigious Michael Ramsey prize for the best in theological writing. For more information please visit: www.michaelramseyprize.org.uk
What is the Point of being a Christian? One is pointed to God, who is the point of everything....
That Was The Church That Was
How the Church of England Lost the English People
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979. The decades which followed saw a seismic shift in the foundations of the C of E, leading to the loss of more than half its members and much of its influence. In...
The Political Samaritan
How power hijacked a parable
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Nick Spencer sets out to rescue an innocent parable, mugged for political ends, ignored by passers-by, and then left for half-dead at the edge of the English language.
The parable of the Good Samaritan has been used by almost every major British politician over recent years – from Theresa...
If you meet George Herbert on the road, kill him
Radically Re-Thinking Priestly Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Priestly ministry in the Church of England needs a radical rethink...
George Herbert died in 1633. His legacy continues. His poems are read and sung, and his parish ministry remains the model for the Church of England's understanding of how and where and why its priests should minister. But there...
Quest for the Living God
Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
'Since the middle of the twentieth century,' writes Elizabeth Johnson, 'there has been a renaissance of new insights into God in the Christian tradition. On different continents, under pressure from historical events and social conditions, people of faith have glimpsed the living God in fresh ways....
by Dr Pinchas Giller
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Kabbalah: A Guide for the Perplexed is a concise and accessible introduction to the major elements of the prevalent metaphysical system of Judaism, Kabbalah. The book covers the historical and theoretical essence of Kabbalah, offering a clear definition of the term and the limitations of what Kabbalah...
A Lot Like Eve
Fashion, Faith and Fig-Leaves: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Joanna Jepson was born with a facial deformity that led to her being mercilessly bullied through childhood and adolescence whilst a strict evangelical upbringing imposed further challenges. Reconstructive facial surgery and a religious meltdown left her unrecognizable and disorientated, and triggered...
An English Spring
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
When John Henry Newman spoke of his hopes for the renewal of the Church, he imagined not only sunshine and the blossoming of new life, but icy winds and torrential rain. His forecast of 'an English Spring' was to prove remarkably far-sighted.
With affection and wry humour, another English cardinal,...
Open Minded Torah
Of Irony, Fundamentalism and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Open Minded Torah elicits unheard voices from the Jewish past for a twenty-first century Judaism at a time when fundamentalists and fanatics often dominate conversations about religion. Kolbrener's brilliant and unorthodox essays are a must-read for anyone who wants to pursue a life of faith, based...
Journeying with Jesus
Personal Reflections on the Stations of the Cross and Resurrection: The Mowbray Lent Book 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
An introduction to the Stations of the Cross and Resurrection is followed by a complete set of reflections on the Stations, written by well-known contributors from public life: those who have made the headlines, those who write the headlines and those who reflect on the headlines in their sermons...
The New Asceticism
Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Each chapter of The New Asceticism concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary...
Dreams of a Refugee
From the Middle East to Mount Everest
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents, a chance meeting led Mostafa Salameh first to London and then to Edinburgh, where he partied to excess, despite having little money. Islam played almost no part in his thinking. Yet it was in Edinburgh that Mostafa had a dream – a profoundly religious...