James Clarke: 58 books
by James Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Guess how old is the game of golf.
It goes back to the time of the apemen - around four million years ago. These diminutive tree-dwelling creatures were forced out of the drought-devastated African forests and on to the expanding savannah with its nose-high grass. In order to see over the top of the...
Accessing Alcuin
A Master Bibliography for 'Alcuin: His Life and Legacy' and 'Alcuin: Theology and Thought'
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Accessing Alcuin enables an excellent multi-disciplinary appreciation of the scholar and theologian, Alcuin, through the manuscript collections and scholarship of medieval history and culture, European Church history and theology. Douglas Dales has provided an authoritative bibliography that comprehensively...
by James Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
James Clarke takes the Mickey (if you’ll forgive the expression) out of magazines that dish out advice on sex. He claims their editors fail to realise how their sex articles badly shock many, like himself, who were brought up during last century.He points out it is no good sexologists writing about...
by James Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
This book reveals personal details about the author’s relationship with his secretary, Threnody Higginbottom (whom he addresses as “Miss Smith” around the office). Threnody files everything under M for miscellaneous.There’s also some quite startling stuff within these covers (stuff you’ll...
by James Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
This true and very funny story involving six colleagues, some retired, proves the saying that we never really grow up - we just learn how to behave in public.On a sudden whim six men, mostly writers, decided to embark on a 1 000 kilometre cycle ride down the River Danube believing it would...
by James Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
What is this book about?I am so glad you asked me that.It is about a band of six Boy Scouts who, during World War 2, collected silver paper from cigarette packets and chocolate wrappers to be recycled into Spitfires and Hurricanes which, smelling faintly of Cadbury’s and Virginia leaf, swept the...
Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720-1798
A Political and Religious Crisis in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
In this compelling narrative, Bernard Heyberger relates the fascinating history of Hindiyya 'Ujaymi, a highly charismatic eighteenth-century mystic of sinister repute.
Heyberger makes a careful study of Hindiyya's life from earliest childhood, with a detailed picture of her formative years...
God, Man and the Church
The Spiritual Foundations of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
During the year after its first publication in Russian in 1885, "God, Man and the Church" rapidly established a reputation as a seminal work of Russian theology. It is a penetrating examination of man's relationship - both as an individual and in society - with God. For Solovyev, personal...
Alcuin
His Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Douglas Dales provides a comprehensive study of the life of one of the most underrated figures of the early medieval Western Church. Alcuin left behind him a varied selection of correspondence and other documents which attest to his prominence as a statesman, theologian, poet, friend, and teacher....
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...
Send Back the Money!'
The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
‘Send Back the Money!’ is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery campaign ‘Send back the Money!’ named after...
The One and the Three
Nature, Person and Triadic Monarchy in the Greek and Irish Patristic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The One and the Three explores parallels between Byzantine and early Irish monastic traditions, finding in both a markedly trinitarian theology founded on God’s contemplation and ascetic experience. Chrysostom Koutloumousianos refutes modern theological theses that affect ecclesiology, and contrasts...
by James Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Poetry from an unexplected angle. An elephant seeks its love among chocolate rain, the ratscape traveller must fight through hell to find the summer. Guy Fawkes, a typical British pub - some unconventional ideas about who murdered the princes in the Tower. All here.
Traces of the Trinity
Signs, Sacraments and Sharing God's Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Traces of the Trinity is a masterful exploration of Christian theology through the lens of semiotics – the study of signs. Andrew Robinson provides helpful analogies and clear explanations throughout to lead even the non-specialist through the subject with ease.
Although the variety of signs is...