Literature & the Arts

Think of your local church. Without art--music, song, dance, etc.--it would be a much poorer place. But if protestants have any vision for the arts, it tends to be a thin one. This unique book is an attempt to contribute to a robust, expansive vision for...

New York Times bestselling author T.D. Jakes explains the tools that we need to know-whether we're single and looking to have a committed relationship or already married-before taking the next big step.The star of BET's Mind, Body & Soul, and featured...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640600850Author Luci ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 164g

Fourth-generation fundamentalist Carlton Pearson, a Christian megastar and host, takes a courageous and controversial stand on religion that proposes a hell-less Christianity and a gospel of inclusion that calls for an end to local and worldwide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620328859Author Richard H. Bell, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The classic of Russian spirituality-now with facing-page commentary that illuminates and explains the text. The Way of a Pilgrim is the timeless account of an anonymous wanderer who set out on a journey across nineteenth-century Russia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798384501268Author Marian A JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint B&H BooksPublisher B&H BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 189mm * 148mm * 23mm

Ralph C. Wood's teaching and writing career over fifty years helped readers and students be attentive to the way literature renders the theologically abstract concretely. Wood has modeled serious theological engagement and robust literary reflection in...

The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art offers a critical guide for rereading and rethinking religion in the histories of modern and contemporary art. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been a marked increase in attention to...

G. K. Chesterton famously claimed that America is "a nation with the soul of a church." He was wrong. In Flannery O'Connor and the Church Made Visible, Ralph Wood argues that our churches have the soul of a nation because they have come to identify...

The industrialization of print technologies in early nineteenth-century America transformed print culture in ways that parallel the transformation wrought by the digital revolution. Understanding how a previous era was shaped by the assumptions print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506469355Author Michael J. GilmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

A first-of-its-kind critical overview of how art leads to moral action in the field of theological ethics One question that remains insufficiently addressed in theological ethics is the question of how art leads to moral action. While many modernist...

A first-of-its-kind critical overview of how art leads to moral action in the field of theological ethics One question that remains insufficiently addressed in theological ethics is the question of how art leads to moral action. While many modernist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684930098Author A W TozerFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Mockingbird PressPublisher Mockingbird PressWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

The work of the influential Jesuit theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) has become a common point of reference in discussing the relationship of theology and the arts. However, the full significance of his theological aesthetics for both the...

The origin, basic texts, central affirmations, and life-policy proposals of the Christian tradition are more ambiguous than either Christianity's critics or advocates often acknowledge. When the tradition is examined through the lens of ambiguity,...

From Around the Globe features twenty-six essays from international scholars across various disciplines who explore a broad range of contemporary and cutting-edge connections between the Bible and global literature. The scholars' fields of study range...

Come to the movies with two celebrated spirituality writers--American poet and author Kathleen Norris and Irish storyteller and peace activist Gareth Higgins. In A Whole Life in Twelve Movies, Norris and Higgins invite readers along as they discuss...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925446432Author Simon LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Pine Hill BooksPublisher Pine Hill BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This book focuses on Blaise Pascal's Pensees, an apology for Christianity, which is regarded as Pascal's crowning achievement. Professor Charles Sherrard MacKenzie maintains that the lens best enabling us to understand Pensees is his fragment on the...

Milton Wright (1828-1917), a United Brethren in Christ missionary, pastor, educator, editor, and later bishop, was widely known for his religious, political, and social commentary during America's post-Civil War era. Beginning with an introduction to...

Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks...

Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of monster studies. The first part of the volume-running...

For the better part of two centuries, Wesley scholars have been given a picture of the family of John Wesley that focuses positively upon the relationships of John and his brother Charles and his mother Susanna. What has come down to us about John...

Food for the Soul is a work of theology that sheds light on the history of Catholicism while discussing important issues facing the Church and our society today. Through a series of biographical plays, author Alex LaPerchia tells the stories of a variety...

Deep Down Things: Essays on Catholic Culture explores common threads that characterize Catholicism. The contributors look successively at: Catholic culture and everyday life of the parish and of work, at Catholic culture and the imaginative life of poets...

This book is a comparative study of the ninth-century Chinese poet and recluse Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and Gary Snyder, an American poet and environmental activist. Joan Tan explains how Chan Buddhism has the potential to be recognised as an important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978509712Author Ned BustardFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Square Halo BooksPublisher Square Halo BooksWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Interest in the anchoritic life in Europe, and medieval England in particular, has never been greater. And yet almost all the recent discussion tends to concentrate on the same texts - De Institutione inclusarum and Ancrene Wisse. Considerations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933859316Author Anthony M. EsolenFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint ISI BooksPublisher Regnery Publishing Inc

Examples of sexual violence and mentions of it appear with a disturbing level of frequency in the literature of early Christianity. This collection of essays explores these occurrences in canonical and noncanonical Christian texts from the first until...

God spoke, and all that is and all that ever will be came into existence. God alone can be called uncreated and Creator, and creation can only accomplish that which already exists within God's imagination. In Making Good, Trevor Hart argues that human...

Not rediscovered until the twentieth century, the works of Georges de La Tour retain an aura of mystery. At first sight, his paintings suggest a veritable celebration of light and the visible world, but this is deceptive. The familiarity of visual...

The question of Shakespeare's Catholic contexts has occupied many scholars in recent years, and their growing body of work has been enriched by revisionist accounts of the Reformation society and culture in which he lived and worked. This innovative...

The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred, Barbara Newman offers a new approach to the...

Interest in the anchoritic life in Europe, and medieval England in particular, has never been greater. And yet almost all the recent discussion tends to concentrate on the same texts - De Institutione inclusarum and Ancrene Wisse. Considerations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830844630Author Steve TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 832gDimensions(mm) 8mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640607293Author Dennis J SardellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete Press

Not rediscovered until the twentieth century, the works of Georges de La Tour retain an aura of mystery. At first sight, his paintings suggest a veritable celebration of light and the visible world, but this is deceptive. The familiarity of visual...