Malcolm Guite
Biography
Malcolm Guite wrote Mariner and The Word within the Words, and provided the foreword to Makers by Nature.
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Arts & Literature
“Perhaps poetry is itself a form of prayer and these well-crafted poems by Peter Lilly will give both literary pleasure and spiritual insight. If, as Lilly asserts in his fine sonnet on CS Lewis, ‘We are remade in every moment.’, then these poems offer a sequence of beautiful momentary remakings. This is a collection that will reward many re-readings.”
Arts & Literature
“D.S. Martin's lovely suite of poems, written in response to the legacy of C.S. Lewis, will delight all lovers of Lewis's work as each new poem picks out and sheds light on different facets of Lewis's genius. . . . Amidst the long shelves of writing about Lewis, this slim volume will give more pleasure, show more insight, and win more friends than most.”
Christian Living
“Once more Gisela Kreglinger’s gifts of clarity, enthusiasm, and scholarship come to the fore in this new book, an exploration and celebration of wine’s central place in faith and Scripture. She writes as much for the sceptic as for the enthusiast, showing a real understanding of how and why temperance movements have arisen, and making the case for moderation as itself part of the pleasure and celebration of wine. There is rich history here, together with wisdom and philosophy but also a great deal of practical help and advice for creating and sustaining a healthy drinking culture.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“This beautifully edited and annotated edition of George MacDonald's Diary of an Old Soul is not only a gift to MacDonald scholars and enthusiasts but also a gift to the world and to the church. Diary of an Old Soul can sit on your bedside reading table as an old friend and companion, something to dip in and out of, to look up the poem for the particular day you take up the book: you will always be challenged, inspired, and ultimately nourished. But Larsen shows that this book offers so much more. It is an inner journal of the hard road of sanctification, the journey all mystics take through purgation, to illumination, and finally to blissful union with the God who loves us and is always enabling our love in return. For those who don't yet know the Diary, this book is the perfect introduction and companion for your journey with MacDonald. For those who do, be prepared to look at an old friend with new eyes and new depths of appreciation.”
Arts & Literature
“Let’s Call It Home is a deft, delicate, carefully assembled collection of poems, each giving a focus and an insight of its own, but altogether intended to take you on a slow journey, an ascent and descent, a venturing out and a return. Time and again these poems do what poetry does best: they transfigure the familiar and so reveal something of its meaning: from the child crawling inch by inch towards a patch of light on the floor to the man holding the body of God inexplicably in his hand.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“This collection of beautifully crafted collects—little prayers for all kinds of occasions, encounters, dilemmas, and moments of celebration—will be a welcome resource for Christians everywhere. These prayers are deeply rooted in Scripture and yet speak powerfully into modern life. Many of them are memorable, beauty crafted little prose poems that will stay with the reader long after they have first been prayed. These prayers are indeed a host of good companions for life's pilgrimage.”
Psalms in an Age of Distraction
Christian Living
“In his Reflections on the Psalms, C. S. Lewis makes the claim that if the psalms are to be understood and used aright, they must be read as poetry, with an understanding of the distinctive modes of poetry: its tropes and metaphors, its particular way of handling language itself. Ethan Jones’s excellent book does exactly that, paying scrupulous attention to juxtaposition, paradox, and metaphor and the way these poetic devices work to enhance meaning. As a result, his reading of the psalms is refreshing, prophetic, and strikingly relevant to the age we live in.”
Pursuing an Earthy Spirituality
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Here is a timely book that takes seriously C. S. Lewis's own emphasis on God as a 'Glad Creator,' on sheer goodness and joy as the core and center of that creation, which, even in its fallen state, still brings us remnants of 'the enormous bliss of Eden.' In a full and thorough survey of Lewis's work Selby draws out the consistent strand of particularity, earthiness, and praise for God's good creation, rooted and redeemed in the incarnation of Christ that is at the heart of Lewis's gospel, and of his wide appeal. But more importantly Selby shows how much our contemporary modes of spirituality, so often intellectualized and rootless, need to be grounded again and earthed in the story of the God who came down. This is a much-needed book that will send people back to Lewis with new appreciation but also encourage them to take a long hard look at some of our contemporary spirituality, and seek for a little more substance, a little more joy.”
Arts & Literature
“C. S. Lewis's narrative poem Dymer is indeed a 'splendour in the dark,' not only because it has been hidden in the darkness of neglect but also because, for those who read and enjoy it, there is still much that remains dark and difficult in the poetry, for all its many splendors. And here Jerry Root has done us all an immense service, by rescuing this neglected poem from obscurity and presenting us with an excellent, scholarly edition. But more than that, in the essays that follow the text, Root has shone considerable light on the poem and, through the poem, on Lewis himself. He shows how much the poem is 'the acorn that contains the oak,' how much of what we love in the later and better-known writings of Lewis has its seed and beginning here. Everyone who loves Lewis will not only enjoy this book but also find that Root's commentary on Dymer enhances their reading of Lewis's other works as well.”
Christian Living
“This tender, beautiful, and entirely original book does indeed offer an art de vivre, an art of living. The age-old wisdom embedded in the traditional seasons of the Christian year is brought to new life and made available to us in new ways.”
History & Biography
“If ‘examination is an act of love,’ as Karen Swallow Prior rightly asserts, then this important book is a loving examination of many of the received ideas, metaphors, and stories that evangelicals have inherited and that inform their worldview. Prior’s examination of this history, this underlying imagination, in light of Scripture and the deepest truths of faith, offers contemporary Christians a chance for self-awareness, renewal, and hope. The insights offered in this book are not always comfortable, but they are just that kind of truth which the gospel promises ‘will make us free,’ free to move through culture to Christ, rather than letting our culture obscure or diminish him.”
Arts & Literature
“Coleridge said that poetry should ‘awaken the mind’s attention’ and remove the ‘film of familiarity’ we have thrown over the world, and the same could also be said of good visual art. By a deft combination of both art forms, Roger Wagner’s new work does just what Coleridge asks. Here are paintings and poems that help us to see in a new way and challenge our habits and assumptions.”
Theology
“It is rare to find such a lucid, and indeed beautiful, account of the theology of beauty. The terms are well defined, the argument precisely advanced and defended, and the range of reference capacious. It's as though, amid a modern debate that has generated more heat than light, one of the classic theologians of the Scholastic period has stepped into the room and brought us at last some clarity, definition, and order.”
“The Hope in Our Scars is at once searing, honest, and encouraging. Aimee Byrd pulls no punches when it comes to the failings of the church, both corporately and individually, showing how often it has wounded and marred the very people it should nurture, leaving them scarred. And yet in the midst of that searing honesty, there is radiant hope, for she always sees the church, and ourselves within it, as also and always the beloved bride of Christ, who has forever wedded his story to ours, and by whose wounds our wounds are healed. In an age when so many are turning away disillusioned or deconstructing their faith, The Hope in Our Scars offers a recovery of vision and confidence; a call to tell and retell our own stories as honestly as possible and so renew our intimacy with Christ and one another.”
Arts & Literature
“There are so many books on Lewis that are simply a rehash of existing knowledge; by contrast, this is a work of fresh, detailed, illuminating scholarship. Barbeau's work on Lewis's long, close, and intimate reading of Coleridge and Wordsworth has unveiled new depths and even given us a newly discovered poem by Lewis. Barbeau dismantles the clichéd idea that the Romantic element is mere subjectivity and shows decisively how Lewis's 'Romantic' engagement with intense personal experience actually dovetails with and reinforces his arguments for the objective truth of Christianity. Barbeau's use of Lewis's personal annotations in the books in the Marion E. Wade Collection is a revelation and makes this book a permanent and important contribution to the study of Lewis's thought.”
History & Biography
“The Making of C. S. Lewis, a work of careful and detailed scholarship, is distinguished by the close attention Harry Lee Poe pays to Lewis’s reading and, most importantly, to his poetry and his early literary scholarship. Poe's assessment of the importance of The Allegory of Love—not simply as a work of scholarship but as the test bed for Lewis’s emerging theology of the imagination—is most impressive. Poe delineates the important links between Lewis the literary critic and Lewis the Christian thinker. New Lewis readers and seasoned Lewis scholars have much to gain from this thought-provoking book.”
Philosophy
“This is a delightful, important, and much-needed book. It is rare to find a profound academic philosopher who can communicate so clearly, and rarer still to find one who can reflect so richly on the experience of motherhood not just from the outside but from the inside. Her account in this book of what it means to be face to face, to be smiled upon, to be loved, takes us right to the heart of what it means to be human. Amidst so many threats to our common humanity this book is a timely reminder of what it is all about, what makes us who we are.”
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