James Clarke: 58 books
One Firm Anchor
The Church and the Merchant Seafarer, an Introductory History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
One Firm Anchor uncovers nineteen centuries of contact between the churches and the seafarer. This extensive introductory history goes beyond anything previously written on the subject in scope and detail. Until now, much has been written of the sea, but little about the relationship of the seafarer...
Soft Shepherd or Almighty Pastor?
Power and Pastoral Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
In 'Soft Shepherd or Almighty Pastor?' contributors seek to go beyond the taboo on "power" within pastoral contexts. They not only discuss fundamental theological and philosophical questions about power but also develop ways to prevent power abuse in pastoral context. Power is considered...
Inferior Office?
A History of Deacons in the Church of England
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The book's purpose is to present the first extensive historical treatment of deacons in the Church of England, in an effort to explain why lifelong or 'distinctive' deacons have so far failed to become a major part of life in the Church of England, as they are in other parts of the Anglican Communion....
by Carl-Henric Grenholm, Göran Gunner
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Since the Reformation in the sixteenth century, Lutheran traditions have impacted culture and politics in many societies. At the same time, Lutheran belief has had an effect on personal faith, morality, and ethics. Modern society, however, is quite different from that at the time of the Reformation.
How...
by Ralph S. Werrell
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
William Tyndale is one of the most important of the early reformers, and particularly through his translation of the New Testament, has had a formative influence on the development of the English language and religious thought. The sources of his theology are, however, not immediately clear, and historians...
The Ideal of Kingship in the Writings of Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien
Divine Kingship is Reflected in Middle-Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Whilst much has been written about Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien both individually and collectively, Scarf claims that the quintessential ideals of Kingship common to their work have never by themselves been studied.
In exploring the ideals of kingship – divine, human and mythological–...
by Tricia Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the relevance of the biblical book of Esther to historic and current anti-Semitism, as well as anti-Judaism in the Church. The essential argument is that despite the fact that the Hebrew version of Esther is the most relevant book in the Hebrew Bible for...
Signs of Salvation
The Theme of Creation in John's Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Was Mary Magdalene really mistaken when she took the Risen Lord to be a ‘gardener’ working near the tomb where Christ was laid after the crucifixion? In this compelling volume, Anthony M. Moore persuasively argues that Jesus must be recognised, at a theological level, as the Gardener: the Creator-God...
The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical Difference
Intercivilizational Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
In response to the religious and spiritual transition experienced in our modern world, Chung creates a postcolonial framework for inter-religious exchange, focussing on issues of interpretation, moral deliberation and ethical praxis. He investigates the relationship between hermeneutical theory and...
A Man of Many Parts
Essays in Honour of John Bowker on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
A Man of Many Parts is an inspired homage to the life and thought of John Bowker, cleric, lecturer and broadcaster. Author of The Sense of God, Is God a Virus? and The Sacred Neuron, Bowker is an independent thinker of profound erudition with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and understanding....
Divine Essence and Divine Energies
Ecumenical Reflections on the Presence of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
A composite book of essays from ten scholars, Divine Essence and Divine Energies provides a rich repository of diverse opinion about the essence-energy distinction in Orthodox Christianity a doctrine which lies at the heart of the often-fraught fault line between East and West, and which, in this...
Dunstan
Saint and Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
St Dunstan of Canterbury (909-88) was the central figure in the development of English church and society after the death of King Alfred. Douglas Dales traces Dunstan's life beginning with his education at the great monastery of Glastonbury of which he became abbot. He was a central figure at the...
The Original Ending of Mark
A New Case for the Authenticity of Mark 16:9-20
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Although traditionally accepted by the church through the centuries, the longer ending of Mark's Gospel (16:9-20) has been relegated by modern scholarship to the status of a later appendage. The arguments for such a view are chiefly based upon the witness of the two earliest complete manuscripts of...
Election, Atonement, and the Holy Spirit
Through and beyond Barth's Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Election, Atonement, and the Holy Spirit' is an examination of the doctrines of election and atonement in Karl Barth’s 'Church Dogmatics', taking up Barth’s own challenge to his reader to surpass his argument and offer a better typological interpretation of the cultic texts. Barth’s radical...