Christianity Books
Griffin Publishing Murder at Golgotha A Scientific Investigation into the Last Days of Jesus Life His Death and His Resurrection
Book SynopsisApproaches Jesus' crucifixion from the perspective of a crime scene investigator: What do we know is fact? What can be historically documented? What can we deduce may have happened? Taking the popular CSI television dramas as inspiration, this work outlines what is known for sure about Jesus' trial and crucifixion.
£13.60
St. Martins Press-3PL Life Love Laughter
Book SynopsisA collection of reflections on three things that make us human - our longing to know the meaning of life, our capacity for love, and our ability to laugh. It mixes ancient Zen stories and contemporary jokes - and helps us to find love, laughter, and ultimately, happiness.
£11.99
Pan Macmillan Miracles True Stories of how God Acts Today
Book SynopsisGeoff and Hope Price present some cases of divine intervention illustrating various ways in which ordinary people have experienced the touch of God.
£12.34
Hymns Ancient & Modern Anthropology of the Old Testament
£25.00
£20.42
SCM Press Biblical Exegesis A Beginners Handbook
Book SynopsisThis is an excellent guide to the various methods of biblical criticism to put into the hands of students. There are chapters on textual, historical, grammatical, literary, form, tradition, and redaction criticism, each concluding with a bibliography.
£23.51
SCM Press Church in the Power of the Spirit
Book SynopsisThe last of a famous trilogy, including The Crucified God and Theology of Hope. Those whose churches have become over-conservative and self-centred will find its impact refreshing.
£36.10
SCM Press Christology at the Crossroads
Book SynopsisAll theology is contextual; but not all contextual theology is good theology. Truly great theology must be rooted in a double context: it must be obedient to the living Jesus, and it must work out that obedience in the time and place in which it is set.
£25.00
SCM Press Call for God
Book SynopsisThis second collection of sermons preached by Karl Barth in Basel prison won the same high praise as its predecessor, Deliverance to the Captives. Whether beginning from the Old Testament or the New, Barth has a unique gift of becoming a vehicle for conveying the majesty and the mercy of God.
£18.19
SCM Press Dating Pauls LIfe
Book SynopsisDating Paul's letters is of vital importance for understanding the development of his thought, and dating Paul's letters means dating the main events of his life. This is a very difficult task, provoking much argument among scholars; Dr Jewett's book represents a real advance in solving the problem, above all because of the method which it adopts.
£25.98
SCM Press Diversity and Communion
Book SynopsisHow can communion be restored between the great traditions of contemporary Christianity, and yet diversity in theology and in liturgical and institutional forms still be retained? That is the major problem for ecumenism today. As a step towards a solution Pere Congar looks back on the main features of the debate.
£25.98
SCM Press Early Arianism
Book SynopsisThe traditional critique of Arianism is that its errors arise from an over-intellectual approach to Christianity, that it failed because it lacked a gospel of salvation. Questions about that traditional view have been raised here and there in recent years. This book challenges it head on
£25.98
SCM Press Early Christian Worship
£20.42
SCM Press Easter in Ordinary
Book Synopsis'I propose,' says Professor Lash, 'to argue, on the one hand, that it is not the case that all experience of God is necessarily religious in form or content and, on the other hand, that not everything which it would be appropriate to characterize as "religious" experience would thereby necessarily constitute experience of God.'
£25.98
SCM Press The Eucharist and Human Liberation
Book SynopsisThe eucharist is central to the life of the churches, but not in the forms in which it is so widely celebrated today. What began with sacrifice for the liberation of others has long been a means of domesticating believers. Such is the passionate argument of Fr Balasuriya, a Roman Catholic priest writing from his native Sri Lanka.
£20.54
SCM Press Escaping from Fundamentalism
Book SynopsisThis is a pastoral rather than a controversial book. Its main aim is not to show fundamentalists that they are wrong, but rather to help those who have grown up in the world of fundamentalism or have become committed to it but in the end have come to feel that it is a prison from which they must escape.
£20.42
SCM Press The Eucharistic Words of Jesus
Book SynopsisDr Jeremias argues that the historical truth can be detected beneath the traditions preserved in the New Testament about the Last Supper. It was a climax of a series of Messianic meals, this time a passover meal. Jesus himself abstained but at it the disciples received a share in the atoning power of their Lord's sufferings.
£25.00
SCM Press Exodus Old Testament Library
Book SynopsisThe commentary by Professor B. S. Childs of Yale on the book of Exodus represents a major attempt to break new ground, both in its understanding of the biblical book itself and also in its conception of the purpose of the commentary writer . It is readily evident that the task Professor Childs has set himself is a mammoth one, and everywhere the reader becomes impressed with the thoroughness and care with which the task has been carried out. in consequence a vast store of biblical and theological learning is compressed into the book making it an invaluable guide to the book of Exodus in its contents and in the way they have been understood by Jews and Christians. The preacher will find a rich collection of comment to provoke further thought and reflection. However, the more traditionally critical biblical scholar will also find a great deal that is fresh here regarding the modem understanding of the book of Exodus. in particular the amount of attention given to tradilio-historical and
£48.24
SCM Press Ezra Nehemiah
Book SynopsisThis commentary has grown out of the author's long-standing interest in the religious history of the Second Temple period. It follows the usual pattern of the series with introduction, text, critical notes and commentary; the translation of the biblical text is the author's own.
£31.56
Hymns Ancient & Modern The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality The ReadTuckwell Lectures for 1990
Book SynopsisIn this book, Professor Barr presents a reading of the story of the Garden of Eden, not as a tale of the origins of sin and death, but as a tale of a chance of immortality, briefly accessible to humanity but quickly lost.
£20.54
SCM Press Greek Apologists of the Second Century
Book SynopsisApologetic literature emerges from minority groups seeking to come to terms with the larger cultures within which they live. Its authors are not entirely at home in either their own groups or the larger society, and their position is one with which many Christians today can sympathize. This book looks at the first Christian apologists of all.
£31.56
SCM Press God in Creation
Book SynopsisThe first volume of Moltmann's systematic theology.
£26.60
SCM Press Hosea Old Testament Library
Book SynopsisThe Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
£23.51
SCM Press Jesus as They Saw Him
Book SynopsisA companion volume to The Mind of Jesus and Crucified and Crowned. Jesus as They Saw Him has been Unavailable for a number of years, and now makes a welcome reappearance.
£25.98
SCM Press Many Witnesses One Lord
£16.59
SCM Press The Ministry of the Word
Book Synopsis'Few preachers will lay down this book without an unhappy feeling of the cheapness of their own preaching; but equally, few preachers will lay it down without a new sense of the mystery and the splendour of the gospel which they preach. This will inevitably never be one of the popular books on preaching; it makes too many mental and spiritual demands on the reader for that; but it will remain one of the great books on preaching' (The Expository Times). With a biographical memoir by Ronal H. Preston.
£18.19
SCM Press The Myth of Christian Beginnings
Book SynopsisThere never was a Golden Age when the church was whole, perfect, pure-virginal. The faith was not purer, the Christians were not braver, the church was not one and undivided: In the light of this, Dr Wilken concludes that Christianity should forgo its preoccupation with the past and become a much more forward- looking movement.
£25.98
SCM Press The Myth of God Incarnate
Book SynopsisFor many people, the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ is the essence of Christianity. Yet this assumption is open to a great many questions. In this book a group of theologians asks whether the idea of the incarnate God is not another of those patristic doctrines which need to be criticized and interpreted afresh in the modern world.
£25.98
SCM Press On Having a Critical Faith
Book SynopsisThere are good reasons, concludes Dr Theissen, for being a Christian. But this does not mean that Christianity can be defended in its traditional form. It will have to change if it is not going to lose all credibility in the modern world.
£18.19
SCM Press Old Testament Theology
£28.00
SCM Press Old Testament Theology Volume 2 The Theology of Israels Prophetic Traditions
Book Synopsis''Essential books for the serious student of the Old Testament.... It is scarcely possible to read von Rad without having the understanding and enjoyment of the Old Testament greatly increased. No serious student of the Bible at the level of theological student or minister can afford not to read him'' (Theology). ''A work of commanding range and penetration. . . . The skilful translation has made von Rad''s book accessible to a greatly enlarged circle of readers. This, the most distinctive of modern Old Testament Theologies, has already exercised and will continue to exercise a profound influence on the study of the Old Testament'' (The Expository Times). Until his death, Gerhard von Rad was Professor of Old Testament in the University of Heidelberg. The companion to this volume is Vol 1: The Theology of Israel''s Historical Traditions.
£31.56
SCM Press The Prayers of Jesus
Book SynopsisThis volume, which was formerly published as one of the series Studies in Biblical Theology, is now reissued independently. It contains three essays which 'show the combination of massive learning with fresh and limpid piety that distinguishes all Jeremias's work' (Theology).
£20.54
SCM Press Planetary Theology
Book SynopsisFr Balasuriya puts forward the outline of a theology which takes account of the spiritual needs of the whole world, seen in terms of north and south as well as east and west. Not perhaps since John Taylor's Enough is Enough has there been such a clearly written, simple and demanding challenge to Western churches, their priorities and life-style.
£23.51
SCM Press The Power of the Powerless
Book SynopsisA collection of Juergen Moltmann's sermons on the themes of power and powerlessness.
£16.59
SCM Press The Rediscovery of Apocalyptic
Book SynopsisA polemical work on a neglected area of biblical studies and its damaging effects on theology and philosophy.
£25.98
SCM Press Rediscovering the Parables
Book SynopsisJoachim Jeremias' The Parables of Jesus is a classic of twentieth-century New Testament scholarship. Before he died the author worked on this shorter and simplified version which was subsequently also translated into English. Long unavailable, it is now reissued for a new generation of readers.
£23.51
SCM Press The Sayings of Jesus
Book Synopsis'Invaluable to everyone engaged in the study of the New Testament.' (The Times Literary Supplement)
£31.56
SCM Press Situation Ethics
Book SynopsisIn its new paperback form, this book is certain of continued attention in the current discussion of ethical problems.
£20.42
SCM Press The Synoptic Gospels
Book SynopsisThe Synoptic Gospels usefully fills the gap between the brief treatments of the synoptics to be found in New Testament introductions, and exhaustive commentaries.
£25.98
SCM Press A Theological Word Book of the Bible
Book SynopsisThis is a book which every minister worth his salt theologically ought to have; it will do his preaching more good than many volumes of ready-made sermons.' (A. M. Hunter in The Expository Times)
£31.56
SCM Press Theological Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to the history and significance of hermeneutical thinking in theology. Discusses text interpretation throughout history and the significance of text linguistics in a modern and postmodern context.
£24.87
SCM Press The Trial of Jesus
Book SynopsisSCM Studies in Biblical Theology Second series 13
£25.98
SCM Press Way of Jesus Christ Christology in Messianic Dimensions
Book SynopsisThis 3rd volume in his systematic contributions to theology is devoted to christology. Biblical and narrative in character rather than patristic and dogmatic it looks at the ecological significance of Christ, developing Teilhard de Chardin's views.
£36.10
SCM Press Creating a Just Future
Book SynopsisHere is Moltmann discussing the questions that matter more than any others for our world: How is it possible to create a world society worth living in? What positive contribution can Christians make in the face of the nuclear threat? What can be done to mobilize concern for the future of the environment and its natural resources?
£18.19
SCM Press Chapters in a Life of Paul
Book SynopsisIn New Testament study, a handful of books stand out as having significantly affected the course of interpretation. John Knox's Chapters in a Life of Paul is one of these. The revision to the book has been carried out by John Knox himself, now approaching his ninetieth year, taking account of subsequent work.
£18.19
SCM Press Church Charism and Power
Book Synopsis'We are living in privileged times. There is an upsurge of life in the church that is revitalizing the entire body from head to toes. The church has been placed on the road to renewal, which will surely result in a new manifestation of the church as institution...'
£25.98
SCM Press The Courage to Doubt
Book SynopsisThe Hebrew Bible is, in part, a history of individuals who, in order to retain faith in God, were led to rebel against and question what was being confidently affirmed about God. Robert Davidson helps the reader see that this theme is particularly relevant today when many within the believing community find themselves forced to question and doubt.
£25.98
SCM Press Crisis of Moral Authority
Book SynopsisWritten in 1970, this was the beginning of a course which took Don Cupitt, as he himself confesses, much further than he ever expected. Many have parted company on the way at various stages; they, and those who find Cupitt speaks to them more than most modern theology, will find that these early stages, in retrospect, make fascinating reading.
£20.42