Rowan Williams

The Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ According to the Four Gospels

Arts & Literature

“This is a beautiful and utterly distinctive sequence of poems, opening out from a densely evocative group of pieces on the Eucharist and the Passover, utilizing to great effect the spare technique of haiku and interweaving a more extended lyrical voice, with interjections in Hebrew and a deep liturgical echo. It is spacious, patient poetry, slowing us down to take the time to sink into the mystery of the great three days of Easter.”

The Role of Death in Life

Science & Faith

“For once, it is not a polite exaggeration to say this is a 'unique' book. The breadth of disciplines represented and the originality of the analysis offered make it an exceptional contribution to current debates. Anyone who thinks the dialogue between theology and the natural sciences is, at best, an exchange of uncomprehending platitudes, will have to think again in the face of these expert, challenging essays, which show that an orthodox theology of our embodied condition can be culturally transformative.”

The Second-Century Apologists

History & Biography

“Here is a book that offers both a thoroughly clear exposition of the writers who’ve been called the first Christian philosophers, and a guide to how their thoughts might relate to the challenge of making good intellectual sense of Christianity today. It is a learned, accessible, insightful survey of one of the great formative periods in the history of the Christian mind.”

The Social Philosophy of Gillian Rose

Philosophy

“This is a book of exemplary clarity and comprehensiveness about one of the most important British thinkers of the last fifty years. Andrew Brower Latz traces Gillian Rose’s unusual intellectual evolution and patiently expounds her notoriously demanding prose to display a powerful, coherent and enormously timely social vision, much needed in a culture of growing political barbarism.”

The Sunrise Liturgy

Arts & Literature

“The Sunrise Liturgy does what it says on the cover: it is a liturgical celebration of dawn. That is, it goes over again and again the kind of change that a new day is--materially and spiritually--and makes us participants in this event that makes the entire world look different. It is constantly surprising and very beautiful . . . It is by turns full of a Joycean exuberance and an extraordinary stillness. . . Exciting poetry, demanding and enlarging.”

The Three Gospels

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a fine piece of work, creatively challenging a number of paradigms in New Testament scholarship and making use of all kinds of early Christian evidence to reconstruct a full and persuasive chronology for the biblical documents. . . . [I]t is argued with energy and clarity and insists, rightly, on the significance of many neglected sources and arguments. A real achievement.”

The Witness of Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch

History & Biography

“A fitting tribute to one of the most independent and creative church leaders in our age, who has done so much to renew our vision of the human calling in the context of the material creation.”

Things Fall Apart?

Church Leadership & Ministry

“One of the questions this book left me with was ‘How on earth can Christians be counter-cultural if they don’t understand their culture in the first place?’ Michael Paget-Wilkes does what very few writers about the church manage to do and invites us to a genuinely theological re-examination of what we think about human beings, where credibility comes from, what we think about thinking itself and much more. A rich, provocative, hopeful study.”

Things Seen and Unseen

Philosophy

“Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is at last beginning to receive the attention it so richly deserves. It remains one of the most fertile sources in recent thought for reshaping the way we think about knowledge, time, and embodiment--a reshaping made all the more urgent by the political and ecological disasters of our times. It is also a style of thought with obvious theological resonance, a question that has long been in need of the kind of careful, insightful, and creative attention that Orion Edgar provides in this really admirable study, which brings Merleau-Ponty's analyses of bodily existence together with central themes of the Christian imagination--incarnation and sacrament--in a deeply original and fruitful way.”

Transfiguring Life

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a thoughtful and—in the best sense—demanding meditation, drawing together a wealth of scriptural scholarship, a deep experience of prayerful reflection, and a warmly sympathetic understanding of some of the treasures of Eastern Christian spiritual discipline. It is a model of how to hold together tradition and contemporary challenge.”

We Say NO!

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Dick Sheppard's extraordinary ministry at the heart of London is one of the great stories of the twentieth-century church; and in this little book we see some of the deepest passions that motivated his service as a pastor and prophet (a rare combination). For all the unanswered questions it leaves, it still presents a simple challenge that can't be ignored: why is it so hard to take Jesus seriously when we think about conflict and reconciliation?”

Without Precedent

Theology

“I read it with appreciation for its clarity and comprehensiveness. It is undoubtedly a lucid and helpful survey, which quite rightly punctures some awful historical nonsense.”

Writing the Icon of the Heart

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Maggie Ross has established a very distinctive voice in writing about the life of the spirit. Richly resourced from the historic tradition, but constantly pressing the most radical question of all, the question of how we can speak of a reality that requires us to let go of controls, images, systems, even--or especially--'spiritual experiences,' this book is a welcome addition to a series of deeply focused and challenging works from a very serious and substantial thinker.”