Catherine Pickstock

God and Phenomenology

Philosophy

“Jean-Yves Lacoste has blended phenomenology and theology with a special degree of subtlety, based upon his remarkable scholarly acquaintance with both. He has also further extended the legacy of the nouvelle theologie by questioning the division between theology and philosophy more radically than anyone else. These excellent essays do justice to both aspects of his enterprise and subject them to critical questioning and development. They make a vital contribution to the emerging Christian thinking of the twenty-first century.”

Lying

Theology

“Griffiths' exacting and beautifully wrought analysis helps us to understand the centrality of deception in Western thought and practice: the lie resides silently at the center of our structures of speech and theoretical speculation as well as our equivocal practice. Most interestingly of all, he shows how Augustine's unequivocal ban upon lying, so unpalatable to our ears, provides a key to reordered ontology, moral philosophy, politics, and theory of language.”

Metaphysics

Philosophy

“In this marvelous book Adrian Pabst gives perhaps the fullest account to date of why Christianity is closely allied to Platonism and why this alliance came unnaturally unstuck, with disastrous consequences for the realm of practice as well as the realm of thought. . . . This is a significant work.”

Remarks on Time

Arts & Literature

“Time is at once subjective and objective, a delicate weaving between rose and silk, garden and house, lover and beloved. These poems seem to sustain time itself, like a daytime lullaby. Without them, the reader feels, time’s passing might be lost. Rarely does such a minimalist idiom retain a true symbolist resonance as it does here consistently and with intensity.”

Spiritualism and Phenomenology

Philosophy

“Maine de Biran was an important influence upon French spiritualist metaphysics and upon French phenomenology. In this stimulating book, Emmanuel Falque suggests that, in his complexly engaged life and in his subtle and private thought, Biran mediated both perspectives through a more complex understanding of human interiority as being embodied and ecstatically aspiring. The view that this ultimately led him to the embrace of a Christian vision of reality is also convincingly expounded and defended here. A vital contribution to the remarkable revival of Biranianism in our own day.”

Stewards of God’s Delight

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Every Christian priest and minister is a gardener, tending God's creation and renewing it to bring forth blooms that radiate forth the creative love of the Trinity. In expounding this thesis so beautifully, Clavier offers an alternative, at once orthodox, Celtic, and ecologically contemporary, to dire visions of ministry as managed sympathy, or else as world-abandoning mission to isolated individuals. Here a return to the cure of souls is demanded, but seen as also the cure of the cosmos. Who could fail to be enthralled by this call?”

The 1662 Book of Common Prayer—Pew Format

Preaching & Worship

“This splendid new edition of the Book of Common Prayer, adapted for international contemporary use, opens up a unique liturgical treasure for the benefit of all Christians and all nations.”

The Resounding Soul

Philosophy

“These exacting essays variously suggest that the apparently problematic category of the soul nonetheless secures the reality of mind without reduction, and without a dualistic contrast to body and matter. Both body and mind live, and it is the living force of the soul which combines them in growth, motion and reflection.”

Water Basin

Arts & Literature

“Fleeting glimpses of recurrent modulating particulars—marigolds, violets, the planting of seeds, rainwater—exchanges of love tokens between a lover and a beloved, cede place to a sense of the manifold, but then return us again to the particular, now changed. The reader is taken up into an oscillation between the miniscule vicissitude and the carapace and is left with a sense of luminous exactness. In this second volume of verse, Allison’s delicacy is matched by her translucency which does not compromise the materiality of the moment but embraces it.”

Why Sacraments?

Preaching & Worship

“In this book, Davison shows . . . how the performance of the sacraments is central to the religion of incarnation and atonement. The extremity of divine presence, which is sustained by a sacramental continuation of the incarnation, uniquely sacralizes in its wake all of the natural world and human society. The extremity of the divine undergoing that is hereby invoked and renewed, uniquely holds out a hope for the final healing of nature and the political order.”