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The Church exists today in its current form because of the people who have come before us. Who were those people? Staid and dour scholars? Cultural movers and shakers? How does their contribution to history affect us today? From a consummate...

Did God call the Church to be an institution? The Reformation gave Europe national churches, but these came to disappoint enthusiastic believers as lacking commitment. Was the right exit policy simply to join 'free' presbyterian or congregational-type...

Raymond Lodge's death from shell shrapnel in 1915 was unremarkable in a war where many young men would die, but his father's response to his untimely death was. Sir Oliver Lodge, physicist, scientist, part inventor of the wireless telegraph and the spark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345441553Author FynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint TBS The Book Service LtdPublisher TBS The Book Service LtdWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)...

What if you could ask C. S. Lewis his thoughts on the questions we all ask ourselves from time to time - questions about friendship, education, suffering, God ... and the meaning of life itself?Alister McGrath's provocative and perceptive book Deep...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597843775Author Omer YilmazFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971078697Author Jerry WennstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570758263Author Erna PutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957066301Author REV Fr FavreFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Mediatrix PressPublisher Mediatrix PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II - published for the first time ever in English. The most intimate insight into the longest-serving pontiff of our time. Over a decade after his death, the popularity and devotion towards John Paul II,...

Informative and honest, Finding Quiet validates the experiences of believers struggling with mental illness, provides spiritual and psychological tools for defeating anxiety and depression-and will reassure you that you can thrive again.In May 2003,...

John Robinson had the worst possible start in life, taken into care at only four months, John was left in abusive foster homes for most of his childhood. Yet today he has found hope and is working in Manchester with the Eden Bus Ministry with children...

John Robinson had the worst possible start in life, taken into care at only four months, John was left in abusive foster homes for most of his childhood. Yet today he has found hope and is working in Manchester with the Eden Bus Ministry with children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898708011Author Alice von HildebrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 431g

In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest centre of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898704105Author Waltraud HerbstrithFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

John Habgood (1927-2019) was Archbishop of York from 1983-1995, and prior to that had served ten years as Bishop of Durham. 'Just John', the biography written at Lord Habgood's request and with his full cooperation while alive, is warm, witty and...

2017 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, whose six completed novels have never been out of print. Best known for her novels, 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Mansfield Park', and 'Emma', first published...

'Shh, new vicar might be listening . . .' As the newly appointed Vicar of Helmsley, David was looking forward to working in this picturesque market town, set in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside. Admittedly the vicarage, which dated back to the...

The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane...

Raised among the Cambridge intellectual elite with a distant father and authoritarian mother, Eliza grows up feeling inadequate and alone. But her parents' friends offer support - notably the Rothschild family and Lord Bob Boothby. In a bid to find...

When Carolyn Weber set out to study Romantic literature at Oxford University, she didn't give much thought to God or spiritual matters-but over the course of her studies she encountered the Jesus of the Bible and her world turned upside down. Surprised...

'Impressive in its clarity this biography [is] the most detailed and accurate to date. Written in an engaging prose, [it] ends with an insightful prediction of the legacy of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and a cleareyed assessment of the challenges that the...

"There is only one cause for the phenomena of life. Only by observing your own consciousness can you discover the cause of what is happening to you." These are the words of Neville in the opening chapter of THE POWER OF UNLIMITED IMAGINATION. But...

From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and philosophers became intoxicated by the experience of community and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062516299Author Thomas MertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Baptist Noel (1798-1873) has been described by the American Evangelical Anglican historian Grayson Carter as a towering figure in nineteenth-century Evangelicalism, but he has been written out of its story because he was a saintly rebel who counted a...

The Prophet Muhammad initiated one of the most significant religious and cultural developments in human history, bringing the religion of Islam to the world. Adil Salahi's compelling biography traces the life of the Prophet Muhammad from his birth and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852347492Author Faith CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Evangelical PressPublisher Evangelical PressWeight(grams) 210g

Succeeding Ronald Blythe's Word From Wormingford, one of the most beloved columns in contemporary journalism, was always going to be a formidable challenge for any writer. Yet the new occupier of the back page slot of the Church Times, the priest-poet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621645061Author Kevin WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804041Author Donald S. Lopez, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

If you liked Call the Midwife, you will love Kicking the Habit! What makes a fun-loving teenager turn her back on a life of parties, boys and fun, to become a nun in a French convent? And what later leads her to abandon the religious life, to return to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888375671Author Sister Chan KhongFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Mennonite church, and immensely popular schoolteacher, he was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a...

If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her long-time friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their...

This is Terry as he really is - wise and funny. A good book from a big man. If only he could be the Primate.' John Sergeant 'A travelogue that is refreshingly irreverent and deeply human.' James Naughtie From darkest Africa to the darker and...

This is Terry as he really is - wise and funny. A good book from a big man. If only he could be the Primate.' John Sergeant 'A travelogue that is refreshingly irreverent and deeply human.' James Naughtie From darkest Africa to the darker and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928832485Author Elisabeth LeseurFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute Press

Oscar Romero: Prophet of Hope is a comprehensive account of the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador's incredible journey of holiness and courageous witness in the face of cruel state oppression. Historian Roberto Morozzo Della Rocca draws directly on...