Rowan Williams
Biography
Rowan Williams wrote Tokens of Trust, Christ on Trial, and Being Christian.
Bios generated by automated processes. · Report a problem
Fiction
“A . . . vivid and sympathetic picture of the world of the first Christians, opened up through the personality of Paul's colleague and friend, Phoebe. Very few people are as expert as Paula Gooder in communicating biblical scholarship clearly and creatively, and this first venture into historical storytelling will bring the biblical text freshly alive.”
Arts & Literature
“A refreshing, intelligent, and unexpected study. Through a close reading of a diverse cluster of nineteenth-century women novelists, this book very effectively challenges the conventional idea that Christian faith simply reinforced the subjugation of women, and shows how it could in fact nourish and deepen resistance to a 'Miltonic' mythology of passive female perfection.”
History & Biography
“All we have learned to expect from Maggie Ross: transforming perceptions of things we thought familiar, a painful emotional openness, writing of subtlety and grace. This is as fresh and challenging as anything she has done.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Tom Wright is, as always, brilliant at distilling immense scholarship into vivid, clear and accessible form. This book is yet another of his great gifts to the worldwide church.”
Christian Living
Foreword
“Veronica Mary Rolf has written a series of beautifully clear and direct meditations on how the biblical story traces our own developmental history and invites us to understand ourselves more deeply by reading ourselves into the text and the text into ourselves.”
World Religions
“To discover a great thinker of the past as an exciting and challenging contemporary is always a wonderful moment. This book--lively, honest, humane, and wide-ranging--introduces us to one of the most brilliant of all Christian writers and lets us realize just how much good news he has to give amid the muddles and longings of our age.”
World Religions
“To discover a great thinker of the past as an exciting and challenging contemporary is always a wonderful moment. This book—lively, honest, humane, and wide-ranging—introduces us to one of the most brilliant of all Christian writers and lets us realize just how much good news he has to give amid the muddles and longings of our age.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Foreword
“Oliver is a difficult, enriching writer, the stimulus of whose work is excep¬tional for all those who have engaged with it. . . . The present volume is a worthy tribute to one of the most serious thinkers the Anglican family has nurtured in the last cen¬tury or so; a learned, subtle, compassionate voice, ambitious for truthfulness and obedient to grace.”
Arts & Literature
“Giotto’s wonderful frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel depicting the events of Christ’s suffering and death have long been recognized as marking a deeply significant moment of transition in Western art. In these pages, Brian Bishop takes us carefully through the sequence, commenting with a mixture of artistic and psychological insight, and leading us to see how these paintings draw us into ‘participation’—responding to the very human but also spiritually charged images before us in such a way that the humanity of Jesus in his suffering connects afresh with our own experience of pain and transfiguration. This is a powerful reflection on some of the most deeply affecting pieces of Christian art in the Western tradition.”
The Church Has Left the Building
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Michael Plekon has in recent years brought to life a wide variety of extraordinary Christian figures, past and present, and thought through their witness in the light of his richly nuanced understanding of Orthodox theology and tradition. This new book is a sort of wake-up call to all who worry about the future of institutional Christianity: the Church as gift and mystery is a good deal more resilient than the various awkward structures in which it embodies itself, and we need a voice like Plekon's to remind us of this and to recall us to hopefulness.”
Christian Living
“A book to generate the right kind of confidence in the gospel--humble, realistic, celebratory.”
Arts & Literature
“Roger Wagner’s visual world is immediately recognizable—the subtle juxtaposition of familiar and unfamiliar, Syria and Oxfordshire, ancient and modern, so often within a landscape of overwhelming radiance, local and unearthly all at once. Here these images are woven around with reflective prose and with poetry that has the same unsettling radiance. A book of transfigurations.”
History & Biography
“A warm and vivid picture of two very different but unexpectedly related countercultural icons in that extraordinary mid-sixties moment of hope and imaginative enlargement. This book enables us to see some of the deep currents of that era and to reacquaint ourselves with two great, unclassifiable figures.”
The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Anglican Tradition
Preaching & Worship
Foreword
(wrote the foreword)
Theology
“The Naked God is a tremendously engaging and positive book, as timely a reflection as any I’ve read on the uncertain but hopeful future of the community of God’s Kingdom. I hope it will find its proper readership.”
The New Testament, Second Edition
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Good translations take risks and let you read a familiar text as though for the first time. This irresistibly colloquial and energetic version of Christian Scripture keeps up a flow of linguistic vigor and sheds much fresh light: both the narratives of the Gospels and the arguments of the Epistles are presented with memorable vividness, and the rendering of the Book of Revelation is a genuine tour de force. There are definitely some high-risk decisions, but the overall impression is of a text that is wonderfully and confidently alive.”
Arts & Literature
“Greg Wolfe has done something very remarkable for both the Christian community and the fractured, fractious culture we inhabit in the North Atlantic world. In his work as editor of the most energizing and imaginative periodical we have in the field of faith and the arts, he has continually reminded us all of why Christianity still draws the attention of the most imaginative spirits, orthodox and not-so-orthodox. These essays amply show how a theologically informed perspective can generate a serious, adult, joyful inhabiting of creation. They go well beyond journalistic polarities and never fail to give fresh light on our condition. A joy and an enrichment.”
Arts & Literature
“George Hobson's words are like feelers slowly exploring the contours of the world around, feeling for the presence of grace and reporting what they find. These poems have a remarkable physicality, both in the simple evocation of the stuff of a God-drenched world, and in the startlingly fresh metaphors (Christ as Braille, for example, and as the rain that dissolves the fog of contemporary alienation) that slip into the fabric and give it a further sheen.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Theology
Christian Living
Christian Living
Science & Faith
Bible Studies & Devotionals
Theology
Theology
Theology
History & Biography
Theology
See something wrong on this page? Report a problem