Theology & Religion

Stimulating and engaging theological and religious books to suit all interests and religious backgrounds.

• Consecrated Celibacy: A Fresh Look at an Ancient Calling

  by Christine Barnabas ★★★★★

  Paperback £14.99
  

  A unique and engaging resource for all who feel drawn to explore a calling to consecrated celibacy and know that life in a traditional religious order is not for them.

  

• Living Culture, Living Christ: On Becoming Fully Human

  by Alan M. Suggate

  Paperback £14.99
  

  Alan M. Suggate offers a diagnosis of the root failings of our culture and commends a humanism centred on persons and grounded in an integralist approach to the Christian faith.

  

• Keeping Time: Time, Liturgy and Christian Discipleship

  by Timothy Gorringe

  Paperback £16.99
  

  Aimed at clergy and laypeople, Keeping Time gives a fresh account of the liturgical year and how it shapes our lives as Christian disciples.

  

• Where Two Rivers Meet: Russian Windows on the Gospel

  by Nicola Vidamour and Pádraig Ó Tuama (foreword) ★★★★★

  Paperback £12.99
  

  A unique exploration of the Christian faith through an encounter with Russian Christianity and culture.

  

• Alfred Hope Patten and the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham

  by Michael Yelton ★★★★

  Paperback £19.99
  

  The definitive history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and its founder Alfred Hope Patten

  

• Peace is a Doing Word: Prayer Patterns for Peacemakers

  by ​Barbara Glasson

  Paperback £16.99
  

  Peace is a Doing Word, uses poetry, story and prayers to reflect on what practicing peace means in every moment of our daily lives. The book offers insights throughout the course of the day, from ‘waking’ to ‘resting’ and concludes each section with a blessing.

  

• Writing the Wisdom: Creative writing as healing from childhood trauma

  by ​Barbara Glasson and Penny Johnson

  Paperback £14.99
  

  Writing the Wisdom explores the emotional impact of childhood sexual abuse in an informative and accessible way whilst also giving a rare insight through writing, into the lived experience of survivors.

  

• The Roman Catholic Bishops of Hexham and Newcastle

  by Paul Severn

  Paperback £16.99
  

  A chronological survey of the Bishops of Hexham and Newcastle from 1850 to the present day.

  

• Creating Space: Story, Reflection and Practice in Healthcare Chaplaincy

  by Sacha Pearce and Jan Collis ★★★★★

  Paperback £16.99
  

  Creating Space tells a professional and personal story of healthcare chaplaincy and models the way in which practice development emerges from reflecting on the human story.

  

• A Very Byzantine Journey: Discovering the New Testament Story through Icons and Pilgrimage

  by J. Richard Smith

  Paperback (full colour) £16.99
  

  ​​Part travelogue, part exploration of religious images and pilgrimage, J. Richard Smith tells the story of icons and the places where the New Testament story really happened.

  

• Posting the Word: Chris Harris and the Story of Life Light Home Study Courses

  by Chris Harris

  Paperback £16.99
  

  Posting the Word recounts the origins of Life Light Home Study Courses – a distance learning organization for biblical and theological study for Catholic lay people.

  

• Birthpangs and Blessings: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis

  by Clare Amos

  Paperback £19.99
  

  Birthpangs and Blessings is an invitation to listen in on, and perhaps join in, the voyage of mutual discovery between God and humanity which is the central thread of the book of Genesis.

  

• A Life-Long Springtime: The Life and Teaching of Fr George Congreve SSJE

  by Luke Miller

  Hardback £25.00
  

  A biography of George Congreve showing his contribution to SSJE and the Church of England by describing his teaching and quoting much of his unpublished or out-of-print writing.

  

• Tuscany's Noble Treasures: Conceptualizing Female Religious Life in Medieval Italy

  by Paula Clifford

  Paperback £19.99
  

  A comprehensive study of female religious life in medieval Tuscany and the development of new categories of religious women

  

• Wicked Weather for Walking: A Passiontide Progress

  by Stephen Platten

  Paperback £9.99
  

  A short guide through Holy Week, linking the story of Jesus' way to the cross with themes of pilgrimage and Christian discipleship in the twenty-first century

  

• Literature and Devotion in Later Medieval England: A selection of manuscripts from Durham University Library

  by Richard Gameson

  Paperback £16.99
  

  Embracing poetic and prose writings on philosophy, contemplation and bibliophily, key service books for the clergy, and devotional texts for the laity, this book explores the interrelated themes of literature and devotion in England from the Black Death to the Reformation as seen through the lens of twenty-six precious manuscripts in Durham University Library.

  

• Prayers for Living: 500 Prayers for Public and Private Worship

  by Rosalind Brown

  Paperback £19.99
  

  Prayers for Living offers 500 new accessible, contemporary and wide-ranging intercessory prayers suitable for public worship or private devotion.

  

• Gospel of the Kingdom: Exploring the Gospel of Mark

  by Patrick Whitworth

  Paperback £12.99
  

  A short accessible guide to the Gospel of Mark for individuals and groups

  

• Imagining the Church: Keeping Faith in a Fragmented World

  by Tim Gibson ★★★★

  Paperback £12.99
  

  Exploring the ways in which the church is imagined in contemporary society, drawing threads of history, present and future together through poetry, art, literature and theology.

  

• The Spring of Hope: Sermons for the Seasons of Faith

  by Douglas Dales

  Paperback £14.99
  

  Sermons for many occasions throughout the Christian year which can be a source of comfort and strength for those alone on their Christian journey or inspiration for preachers.

  

• In Awesome Wonder: Bridging Faith and Science

  by Daniel Ruy Pereira and Luiz F. Cardoso

  Paperback £12.99
  

  For 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.

  

• Using Vintage Hymns in Worship: Hidden Treasures Rediscovered for Today’s Church

  by Gillian R. Warson ★★★

  Paperback £12.99
  

  Can 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.

  

• Made in the Image of God: Being Human in the Christian Tradition

  by Michael Fuller and David Jasper (editors), et al.

  Paperback £25.00
  

  A 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.

  

• Fuzzy Church: Gospel and Culture in the North of England

  by Nigel Rooms and Elli Wort, and Philip North (foreword) ★★★★★

  Paperback £16.99
  

  Rooms and Wort analyse what the North actually is, and why we need to study our context if we want to understand more about God and God’s ways.