Secondhand Books Religion

Home to all the major religions, India is also, inevitably, host to virtually every type of religious fanatic. No other nation has witnessed as much proselytizing or heard as many...

Who is Jesus? This is the fundamental question for christology. The earliest Christians used various titles, most of them drawn from the Old Testament or Hebrew Scriptures, to express their...

In his characteristically endearing and informal style, His Holiness the Dalai Lama examines the nature of the human mind and emphasises the need to transform it if we want to...

Understanding Differently considers the four main religions - Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism - that, along with Christianity, represent ancient and vibrant visions of God at work in the world...

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust, transforming a narrow discussion fixated on...

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...

In Born to Heal, Tony Hogan tells us the story of his remarkable life, from his colourful childhood in County Wicklow to his experiences as one of Ireland's foremost healers....

In Band of Angels, Kate Cooper tells the surprising story of early Christianity from the woman's point of view. Though they are often forgotten, women from all walks of life...

In Calm the Soul: A Book of Simple Wisdom and Prayer, The Poor Clares, an enclosed order of nuns based in Nuns' Island, Galway, draw on the fruit of their...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Are you tired of living with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule and aching with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul? Do you find yourself unable to say no even...

In 2015 Pope Francis published Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home, the first papal encyclical devoted exclusively to the subject of the environment. Released to glowing reviews both...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

These five late biblical books offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. They are artful, entertaining literary works-innovative, even startling. Women often stand centre stage....

In this candid, at times raw, account of a life of turmoil, dissident Bishop Pat Buckley reveals how his battles with Rome were paralleled by an internal battle between his...