Literature & the Arts

In The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience, Simeon Zahl presents a fresh vision for Christian theology that foregrounds the relationship between theological ideas and the experiences of Christians. He argues that theology is always operating in a...

Let it be our chief occupation to think upon the life of Jesus Christ.THE IMITATION OF CHRIST is one of the great classics on spiritual devotion. It has been influential since it was first written over five centuries ago, with people such as John Wesley...

'This book is brilliant, funny... spot on. It's the first time I've been able to get into A Course in Miracles.' - Dr Christiane Northrup, New York Times bestselling author of Goddesses Never Age If you've always wanted to read A Course in Miracles but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963962157Author Professor John MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint New Arts LibraryPublisher New Arts LibraryWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm)...

Austere apologetics.Q. Septimus Florens Tertullianus (ca. AD 150-222) was born a soldier's son at Carthage, educated in Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and medicine, and later studied law to became a pleader, remaining a clever and often tortuous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802865878Author Calvin R. StapertFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Many critics regard the work of Saint John of the Cross (1542-91), the 16th-century mystic, to be among the finest poetry Spain has produced. This bilingual edition, the first in modern English, was originally published in hard cover in 1968 by the...

Ian Adams is one of the most striking, original and fresh voices in contemporary Christian spirituality. Poetry features large in his work and is an integral part of the two bestselling books he has written. Poetry reading features in his work as a...

As with French, German or Spanish, learning the basic vocabulary of Christianity is a vital first step in understanding what it means and how it works. We think of words like 'faith', 'forgiveness', 'salvation', 'sin' and 'heaven'. But how can we be sure...

Readers who can quote word for word from C.S. Lewis's theological classic, Mere Christianity, or his science fiction novel, Perelandra, have often never read his work as a professional literary historian. They may not even recognize some of the neglected...

THE WAY OF A PILGRIM is the timeless account of an anonymous wanderer who set out on a journey across nineteenth-century Russia with nothing but a backpack, some bread and a Bible, with a burning desire to learn the true meaning of the words of St. Paul:...

An extraordinary book, which enables us to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels. The current rash of books hostile to religious faith will one day be an interesting subject for some sociological analysis...

George Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to anger and despair, to reconciliation and hope. And his work is always rich with audacious playfulness: he seems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586174897Author Dale AhlquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506433769Author Richard BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642970364Author Mirabai StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666777338Author Gregory S AthnosFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 435g

The great religious poetry of R. S. Thomas and the poetry of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is rooted in a remarkable late-twentieth-century tradition of spiritual poetry in Wales that includes figures as different as Saunders Lewis...

On First Principles by Origen of Alexandria, written around 220-230 AD, is one of the most important and contentious works of early Christianity. It provoked controversy when written, provoked further debate when translated into Latin by Rufinus in the...

In his distinctive work, Christopher Scarf explores the writings of the three most prominent Oxford "Inklings" - Charles Williams (1886-1945), C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), and J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) - to reveal and contrast their conceptions of...

This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign...

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a...

This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Waste Land.The Selected...

In a world of turmoil, art matters more than ever. Art can bring about political action, even social revolution. Art reminds us of the things that really matter. It lifts our eyes to eternity and show us the importance of the here and now. With...

In Preface to Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis presents an illuminating reflection on John Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own work. Lewis a revered scholar and professor of...

An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. He influenced...

For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578697956Author Tanner OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Written to Speak, LLCPublisher Written to Speak, LLCWeight(grams) 145g

Dante's Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the most significant works of literature ever written. It is renowned not only for its ability to make truths known but also for its power to make them loved. It captures centuries of thought on...

'For me, the life of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, is an inspiration and an anchor in my life. A role-model of reconciliation and forgiveness, he stretched out his hands in love, acceptance and healing.' The Queen's Christmas Broadcast, December...

Jesus through Medieval Eyes will take you on an exploration of medieval representations of Jesus in theology and literature.Who is Jesus? What is he like? And who am I, encountering Jesus? These questions were just as important to Christians in the...

Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis.The First World War laid waste to a continent and brought about the end of innocence-and the end of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780551030985Author Richard KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780551030985Author Richard KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846559Author Sharon Garlough BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)...

In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414309330Author Ardythe PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign...

A deeply moving story of forgiveness for a woman who struggles to reconcile herself with the memory of a child she aborted nine years previously.About the AuthorFrank E. Peretti is one of American Christianity's best-known authors. His novels have sold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956942302Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Barfield Press UKPublisher Barfield Press UKWeight(grams) 143gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...