Religion

This guide is aimed at anyone who's ever wanted to get to grips with the content, meaning and relevance of the books of the Bible. For each book there is...

When you hear the word 'worship', what first springs to mind? For many of us we think of singing songs and hymns with fellow believers in a church service or...

The life and wisdom of the desert fathers and mothers is not only retained in historical volumes, but has been a constant presence throughout the development of the church. A...

Eschatology is the branch of theology that deals with the final consummation of all things. Covering such subject matter as death, judgment, and the life to come, the discipline of...

John Pritchard takes an honest look at what the church is really for and how it works. A book for all who wonder what it must be like to be...

Alister McGrath shows how science can take us only so far in answering the big questions about our origins, and how Christianity can take us further. A book for all...

It's a big book, full of big stories with big characters. They have big ideas (not least about themselves) and make big mistakes. It's about God, and greed, and grace;...

The Lambeth Conference in 2008 has included a 'listening process' where people hear the views of others and listen to the experience of homosexual people. This book includes items from...

Robin Gill sensitively examines the various explanations that theologians offer to the problem of why the world contains so much innocent suffering. A book for all who want to believe...

The Bible is among the world's most influential and important books - and the most controversial. It affects not just religious beliefs but every aspect of our culture, including the...

On April 8th, 2002 Andrew Furlong, the Anglican Dean of Clonmacnoise in Ireland, came before a heresy trial for denying the divinity of Christ. This the story of how the...

Why do we exist? Is there a God? What's the point of it all? These are some of the questions that all thinking people ask at some point in their...

Rowan Williams takes you to the heart of what Christianity means for those who practise it, and the hope it offers to the world at large. A book for all...

Language about God is something like the language of poetry - The poetic use of language is not to increase your information about the world. We know facts about the...

Heaven is one of those great mysteries that somehow symbolizes what we don't know about ourselves and the world around us. At the same time it lifts our vision from...

It happens to most of us at some time or other. A faint stirring somewhere that there may be more to this life than meets the eye? The thought just...

In The Story of Christianity, acclaimed theologian David Bentley Hart provides a sweeping and informative portrait of a faith that has shaped the western world and beyond for over 2,000...

'I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another' Jesus ChristChristianity began as a minor sect...

This is a long established bestselling and highly regarded book on the Lion list and is now substantially revised and rewritten with many new articles. New contributors are introduced and...

This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was...

These five superb homilles by the newly elected Pope, Benedict XVI, provide a clear and biblically based explanation of the first few chapters of the Bible. Reissued with a new...

When I go out on these frosty nights and see the pattern of the stars across the sky I ask myself how did all that happen. Micheal O Muircheartaigh When...

This book takes a fresh look at problems we all face at Christmas time: finances; present buying; and family relations. It examines how we can approach the season in new...

With over 500 meditations from across the centuries, this unique collection offers a profoundly absorbing introduction to some of the greatest spiritual guides the world has known and to Christian...

There is a seismic shift necessary from being religious to being a true disciple. Here is the contemplative's perspective. It is an abiding sorrow to the author that many faithful...

A little book to help inspire and transform heart and mind. Teachings such as meditations on generating compassion and calm are the core of this little book that will appeal...

The Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated in the northeast of England at the beginning of the 8th century, is one of the outstanding masterpieces of early medieval European book painting....

'New Zealand probably has more resident birds that can't fly than any other place on earth. I'm told that long ago these birds could fly but life was so good...

Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit, Jacob and the stairway to heaven, Joseph and his brothers, Samson and Delilah, David and Goliath, Jonah and the whale, the miracles and...

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has established itself long since as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable recent discovery of...

The Apostle Paul has shaped the course of Christian ethics for centuries and is widely regarded as the most influential theologian in the Christian tradition. In this authoritative introduction, Morna...

One woman's investigation of the role of women in the Christian Church since its inception, as she counters the Roman Catholic church's argument for excluding them from the priesthoodDetails the...