Filter By
Books (779)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
From the Dairyman's Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF: The RTS, Lutterworth Press and Children's Literature by Dennis Butts 9780718830557
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.12A collection of essays based on the Children's Books History Society study conference marking the bicentenary of the Religious Tract Society and the Lutterworth Press. The book analyses the... -
Life and Death in Higher Education: A Political and Sociological Analysis of British Colleges of Education by Clare Debenham
Booksplease Price: £25.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780718895501Author Clare DebenhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint -
The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas: A Sketch by Stephen L. Brock
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.18If Saint Thomas Aquinas was a great theologian, it is in no small part because he was a great philosopher. And he was a great philosopher because he was a great metaphysician. In the twentieth... -
Interweaving Innocence: A Rhetorical Analysis of Luke's Passion Narrative (Lk 22:66-23:49) by Heather M. Gorman
Booksplease Price: £23.93In this study Heather Gorman analyses Luke's portrayal of Jesus' death in light of the ancient rhetorical tradition, particularly the progymnasmata and the rhetorical handbooks. In addition to... -
Brewing for Victory: Brewers, Beers and Pubs in World War II by Brian Glover 9780718896737
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.99'In the black out visit a bright inn.' So read stickers on the windows of Watney's pubs all over London. In Brewing for Victory, Brian Glover shows in lively detail how beer and pub culture aided... -
This Monastic Moment: The War of the Spirit and the Rule of Love by John W. De Gruchy 9780718896829
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.99Kairos is used in the New Testament to signify a pivotal moment in history: a critical time of judgement and opportunity where chaos must be faced and one must change their ways before it becomes... -
Thomas Merton and the New World: God's Messenger on the Road by Paul R. Dekar 9780718896850
Booksplease Price: £22.60'Merton still matters', writes Paul R. Dekar about Cistercian monk Thomas Merton. Calling people to act justly, love kindness and walk humbly, Merton used his contemplative practice to see beyond... -
Richard Aldington (revised edition): Poet, Soldier and Lover 1911-1929 by Vivien Whelpton 9780718895464
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £30.41A new and insightful biography of the war poet and novelist Richard Aldington, exploring his pre-war, wartime and post-war experiences, writings and relationships.Book InformationISBN... -
The Misunderstanding of the Church by Emil Brunner 9780718891343
Booksplease Price: £53.87Brunner sees St Paul's Epistle to the Romans as 'the chapter of destiny of the Christian Church'. Here, in Luther's words, is the 'purest gospel' upon which the very existence of the Christian faith... -
Journals of Brother Roger of Taizé, Volume I by Brother Roger 9780718897604
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £18.62Roger Schutz-Marsauche, known as Brother Roger, is one of the most influential figures in Christianity in the twentieth century. He was founder and first prior of the Taize Community in France, where... -
Wagner's Theatre: In Search of a Legacy Patrick Carnegy 9780718897406
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.75In Wagner's Theatre, Patrick Carnegy presents the turbulent story of Wagner and his interpreters over the course of the twentieth century. Carnegy gives vivid accounts of Gustav Mahler's radical... -
Cambridge Liturgical Psalter Andrew Macintosh 9780718897710
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.61The Cambridge Liturgical Psalter represents the best modern understanding of what is on occasions a very difficult Hebrew text. The revised edition of the book includes a new introduction by Andrew... -
Learning to Look: Velázquez, Fra Angelico, Canaletto, Pollock Robert Cumming 9780718897741
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.61Slow Looking can lead to unexpected and huge rewards. In Book One - Learning to Look Robert Cumming shares his own slow discovery of the pleasures of looking and aesthetic experience, and in so doing... -
Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation?: Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum American South Iain Whyte 9780718897963
Booksplease Price: £25.72Examining the history of slavery in the American South, it is impossible to separate the interpretations of Christianity from the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding liberation. In Tools of... -
From Historical to Critical Post-Colonial Theology: The Contribution of John S. Mbiti and Jesse N.K. Mugambi by Robert S. Heaney 9780227175804
Booksplease Price: £27.60What is post-colonial theology? How does it relate to theology that emerged in historically colonial situations? These are two questions that get to the heart of Robert S. Heaney's work as he... -
Boundless Grandeur: The Christian Vision of A.M. 'Donald' Allchin by David G. R. Keller 9780227175811
Booksplease Price: £25.55Donald Allchin was an ordained priest in the Church of England, a historian, ecumenist, and contemplative theologian. The essays, poems, and memoires in this book represent what his Christian vision... -
Religion and Violence: A Dialectical Engagement through the Insights of Bernard Lonergan by Dominic Arcamone 9780227175712
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.18The aim of Religion and Violence is to engage dialectically key symbols of religiously motivated violence through the insights of Bernard Lonergan. Sociologists and psychologists argue the link... -
Things Seen and Unseen: The Logic of Incarnation in Merleau-Ponty's Metaphysics of Flesh by Orion Edgar 9780227175941
Booksplease Price: £27.60The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty was developing into a radical ontology when he died prematurely in 1961. Merleau-Ponty identified this nascent ontology as a philosophy of incarnation that... -
Men of One Book: A Comparison of Two Methodist Preachers, John Wesley and George Whitefield by Ian J. Maddock 9780718892616
Booksplease Price: £27.60The proposal of this book is to guide the reader to the contrastive ministries of the two most dominant preachers of the eighteen-century evangelical revival. In a wonderful comparative approach the... -
Can I Let You Go, My Love by Kay van Dijk 9780718892333
Booksplease Price: £23.93Combining the poignant appeal of a love story cut short with the theme of personal growth and the spiritual search for meaning, this book will help to give comfort to those who have shared the pain... -
The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley: A Reader (Expanded Edition) by S. T. Kimbrough, Jr. 9780718893385
RRP: £34.50Booksplease Price: £33.52The theological concerns of Charles Wesley are expressed primarily through his repertory of over 9,000 hymns and sacred poems. They include inquiries into the meaning of the Church's sacred rites,... -
Canadian Churches and the First World War by Gordon L. Heath 9780718893583
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £30.41Most accounts of Canada and the First World War either ignore or merely mention in passing the churches' experience. Canadian Churches and the First World War addresses this surprising neglect,... -
Liminal Reality and Transformational Power: Revised Edition: Transition, Renewal and Hope by Timothy L. Carson 9780718894016
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.61Liminal Reality and Transformational Power explores, draws together, and integrates the many facets of liminality, and informs our understanding of liminal phenomena in the world. Through... -
Ecclesial Identities in a Multi-Faith Context: Jesus Truth-Gatherings (Yeshu Satsangs) among Hindus and Sikhs in Northwest India by Darren Todd Duerksen 9780718894061
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.60When Hindus and Sikhs become followers of Christ, what happens next? Should they join Christian churches that often look and feel very unfamiliar to them? Or to what degree can or should they remain... -
Jesus and Pocahontas: Gospel, Mission, and National Myth by Howard A. Snyder 9780718894191
Booksplease Price: £26.07Most Americans know the story of Pocahontas, but not the fact that she was a Christian, and the reasons for her dramatic conversion. Pocahontas had a history-altering encounter with Jesus Christ. A... -
The Book of Womanhood by Amy F. Davis Abdallah 9780718894245
Booksplease Price: £22.60There are many questions that surround Christian womanhood: What does it mean? When does it happen; at a certain age, status, or maturity? How do we know we're no longer girls? And when we've figured... -
Recognising Other Subjects: Feminist Pastoral Theology and the Challenge of Identity by Katharine E. Lassiter 9780718894467
Booksplease Price: £23.93How do we care justly when the self suffers because of the identity that they inhabit? Pastoral theologian Katharine E. Lassiter approaches this interdisciplinary question from a feminist perspective... -
The Universe is Indifferent: Theology, Philosophy, and Mad Men by Jacob L. Goodson 9780718895181
RRP: £35.50Booksplease Price: £32.44Centred on the lives of the employees at a Manhattan advertising firm, the television series Mad Men touches on the advertising world's unique interests in consumerist culture, materialistic desire,... -
Liturgical Feasts and Seasons: Novitiate Conferences on Scripture and Liturgy 3 by Thomas Merton 9780718897352
Booksplease Price: £39.79In this third volume of papers from Thomas Merton's conferences during his decade (1955-1965) as novice master at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani, his insight into the liturgical pattern of the... -
Living Deeply: A Psychological and Spiritual Journey by Revd. Dr. Fraser Watts 9780718895129
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £18.20Here is a book that takes people on a personal journey, a journey that is both spiritual and psychological: a three-fold journey that leads you, the reader, to face issues about yourself, raises... -
Andrew Young: Priest, Poet and Naturalist: A Reassessment by Richard Ormrod 9780718895136
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £24.78Andrew Young was one of the most original, inventive and paradoxical poets of the twentieth-century. C.S. Lewis called him, 'A modern Marvell and a modern marvel', and Philip Larkin remarked that,... -
Sin, Grace and Free Will: A Historical Survey of Christian Thought: Volume 2 by Matthew Knell 9780227176559
Booksplease Price: £27.60In the first volume of Sin, Grace and Free Will, Matthew Knell embarked on a journey through centuries of Christian thought, from the Apostolic Fathers to St Augustine of Hippo. In this second... -
Philip of Spain and the Netherlands: An Essay on Moral Judgments in History by C.J. Cadoux 9780718896768
Booksplease Price: £27.60In Philip of Spain and the Netherlands, C.J. Cadoux discusses the expression of moral judgements regarding leading figures in major historical events. Indeed, Cadoux, using the case of the Dutch... -
The The Intelligible Ode by 9780718896430
Booksplease Price: £96.66From its first publication, what is now known as the Immortality Ode has been praised for the magnificence of its verse and disparaged for its paucity of meaning - the 'immortality' of the subtitle... -
Forging Modernity: Why and How Britain Developed the Industrial Revolution 9780718896898
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.71The Industrial Revolution provided the greatest increase in living standards the world has ever known while propelling Britain to dominance on the global stage. In Forging Modernity, Martin... -
Deserted Medieval Villages by John G. Hurst 9780718898120
Booksplease Price: £99.35Deserted Medieval Villages combines archaeological and historical expertise to produce a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the studies of deserted medieval villages. Including an extensive... -
Queer Street: The Curious Connections Between Boxing and the Homoerotic Cornelius Chapman 9780718898519
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00Physical displays of affection between opponents are most intense in the most violent sports, such as American football and boxing. Queer Street: The Curious Connections Between Boxing and the... -
Well Played: A Christian Theology of Sport and the Ethics of Doping by Michael R. Shafer 9780718894337
Booksplease Price: £27.70Should we allow performance-enhancing substances in competitive athletics? The first book of its kind, Well Played answers this question by urging us to a deeper appreciation for the purpose of sport... -
Jesus and Women: Beyond Feminism by Niamh Middleton
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.34In Jesus and Women, Niamh Middleton combines insights from evolutionary biology, feminism and the #MeToo movement to highlight the revolutionary attitude of Jesus towards women. Her careful exegesis,... -
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Neurophilosophy of History and the Future of Civilisation by Nayef Al-Rodhan
Booksplease Price: £85.13In Sustainable History and Human Dignity, Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan shows that it is the human quest for sustainable governance, balancing the ever-present tension between nine human dignity needs...