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Latest & Forthcoming Releases
Theology & Religion
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Pre-order now! In Awesome Wonder: Bridging Faith and Science
Paperback £9.99 Special pre-order price!
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-148-4For many Christians there is still a gap between science and their faith. Exploring topics like cosmology, evolution and climate change, In Awesome Wonder shows how science and faith can mutually enrich each other and can be incorporated, confidently and healthily, into an orthodox Christian worldview.
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Using Vintage Hymns in Worship: Hidden Treasures Rediscovered for Today’s Church
Paperback £9.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-164-4Can hymn-singing continue as a flourishing tradition with old and new coexisting comfortably alongside each other? Gillian Warson invites us to see that vintage hymn texts should be lovingly preserved so that they can be enjoyed for generations to come.
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Made in the Image of God: Being Human in the Christian Tradition
Paperback £24.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-170-5A collection of essays on what it means to be human and made in the image of God from a wide range of theological and philosophical perspectives.
History
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And Did Those Feet: The Story and Character of the English Church AD 200-2020
Hardback £40.00
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-152-1Patrick Whitworth charts both the contribution and shortcomings of the English Church. An extraordinary story well told, this will remain the standard work on the Church in England for many years to come.
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Sink or Swim: Catholicism in Sixties Britain through John Ryan's Cartoons
Paperback £12.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-138-5Cartoons by John Ryan, better known as the creator of Captain Pugwash, provide a personal portrait of the extraordinary ups and downs of religion in the Sixties—encompassing the machinations of popes and cardinals, the testimony of expert witnesses, runaway priests, radical reformists and lay protest movements.
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Saints and Holy Places of Yorkshire: A Pilgrims' Guide to God's Own County
Paperback £9.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-103-3A unique guide for visitors to the many pilgrimage sites in Yorkshire and the holy people who have been associated with these places.
Fiction & Poetry
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Not of This Worldview: Poetry for the Kingdom Among Us
Paperback £9.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-158-3In poems that range from loose informality to tight structure, and from the humorous to the sombre, Richard Briggs seeks to let poetry open our eyes and ears to the strange and elusive work of God among us.
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A New Heaven and a New Earth: St Cuthbert and the Conquest of the North
Paperback £12.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-125-5Caught between the Northumbrian rebels and their brutal new Norman masters, the Community of St Cuthbert at Durham is struggling to survive. The final novel in the Cuthbert trilogy, set at the time of the Harrying of the North, tells the story of the survival of the shrine and the foundation of Durham Cathedral.
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Place of Repose: St Cuthbert’s Last Journey
Paperback £12.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-078-4A tale of violence and intrigue, revenge and reconciliation – and of true love lost and found. Set in the ninth century at the time of the Viking invasions, Place of Repose follows the flight of St Cuthbert's monks from Lindisfarne and their turbulent journey in search of a new home for the saint.
BOOK LAUNCH: Made in the Image of God
Transgenderism, artificial intelligence (AI), our relationship to animals and the natural world... Join seven distinguished theologians for the launch of Made in the Image of God, live at 2.30pm BST on Friday 28 May 2021. This will be a wide-ranging and fascinating insight from members of …
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Taking Back Control?
GUEST BLOG: #BookOfTheMonth author David Newman takes stock of what we have learned from a year of pandemic, and explores aspects of life in lockdown that he hopes will continue into the future. As spring has begun to show its colours of late, it has been impossible not to journey back a year a…
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Busking the Gospel in Secular Employment
GUEST BLOG: Self-supporting ministry is not a new phenomenon, but it has experienced renewed interest of late. Is this the model for twenty-first-century ministry? James M. M. Francis explores some of the issues. Busking the Gospel is a book on non-stipendiary or (as a now preferable term)…
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