Christianity Books
SCM Press Crucifixion
Book SynopsisThis learned study may claim to be the most comprehensive and detailed survey ever to have been published of the evidence of the use of crucifixion in the Graeco-Roman world and the way in which it was regarded by the people of the time.
£22.64
SCM Press The Cross of the Son of God
Book SynopsisThis volume conveniently collects together three related short studies by Professor Hengel, The Son of God, Crucifixion and The Atonement. Together they form an important introduction to the crucial period of Christian belief between the crucifixion of Jesus and the writings of Paul.
£25.98
SCM Press The Cult of the Saints
Book SynopsisA stimulating look at the rise of the cult of the saints, weaving it within its social and cultural context. A beautifully written book' (Catholic Herald).
£25.98
SCM Press Divine Disclosure
Book SynopsisThe study of apocalyptic has been David Russell's life-work, and over the years, with the discovery of new material and ongoing study, he has reassessed his earlier interpretation in a number of respects. This new book provides a short but comprehensive guide to the latest state of research into apocalyptic.
£22.64
SCM Press How to Understand the Liturgy
Book SynopsisGoing back to essentials, the first part explores the nature of signs and symbols, sacraments and rites from their earliest appearance. The second part then traces the development of Christian liturgy from the first gatherings to the elaboration of places and forms of worship. The third part turns to the eucharistic liturgy.
£22.64
Hymns Ancient & Modern How to Read the New Testament
Book SynopsisBestselling illustrated introduction to the New Testament which enables readers to find their way around and come back for more.
£28.47
SCM Press Jesus Qumran and the Vatican
Book SynopsisDid the Vatican suppress the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Do they radically call in question the Christian understanding of Jesus? Two distinguished scholars examine these issues and more, producing a highly readable and reliable account of the present state of research on the Scrolls and their implications for Christianity.
£25.98
SCM Press The New Testament Environment
Book Synopsis'This is far more than an account of social conditions at the time of Jesus. It seeks to paint in some of the historical, intellectual and cultural background against which the books of the New Testament must be read if they are to be fully understood... essential reading for anyone who wishes to study the New Testament seriously' (Theology).
£31.56
SCM Press Origen
Book SynopsisIn his Preface, Professor Maurice Wiles writes: 'Augustine has been well served by his recent commentators... But Origen has remained a much more shadowy figure, largely unknown except to the specialist scholar. Joseph Trigg's book should go a long way to remedy that state of affairs.
£31.56
SCM Press Pilgrimage Yesterday and Today
Book SynopsisAll pilgrimages should be stopped.'' This blunt assertion by Martin Luther, echoed unanimously by the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers, is the pivot of Professor Davies''s fascinating and original study. Why were pilgrimages condemned? To answer the question he gathers together material to illustrate the nature of pilgrimages and the motives behind them, extending from patristic times to the Middle Ages. Then he studies the effects of the condemnation on the flourishing pilgrimage trade. During the nineteenth century, the Holy Land again attracted visitors, even among Protestants; here is another change which needs to be explained. Pilgrimages may have been resurrected in our day, but there has been little examination in depth of the criticisms previously levelled against them among Protestants. A substantial chapter attempts to fill this gap, at the same time supplying a modern theology of pilgrimage. The book ends with a review of the devotional aspects of modern pilgrimages, a
£25.98
SCM Press The Practice of Faith
Book SynopsisThis volume is in one sense the spiritual and pastoral counterpart of Rahner's theological masterpiece, Foundations of Christian Faith. Divided into three parts, Faith, Hope and Love, it deals with the sacraments, the theological virtues, the states of life, the various kinds of prayer, and other aspects of ascetical and mystical theology.
£25.98
SCM Press Religion of Jesus the Jew
Book SynopsisFinal volume of the Vermes trilogy (which includes Jesus the Jew and Jesus and the World of Judaism). A reading of the synoptic gospels primarily addressed to those interested in ancient religions, culture and Judaism.
£31.56
SCM Press A Requiem for Hitler and Other New Perspectives on the German Church Struggle
Book SynopsisProf. Scholder's book is a major contribution to our understanding of Christianity under the Nazi regime, in some ways going beyond his definitive history of the German churches under the Third Reich. The volume paints a vivid picture of the problems of living under any kind of totalitarian regime, with a wealth of evidence and insights.
£25.98
SCM Press The Semantics of Biblical Language
Book SynopsisBehind the academic and innocently descriptive title of this book is to be found one of the most explosive works of biblical scholarship to be published last century. Many of those who read it on its first appearance were never the same again, and it signalled the end of what had hitherto been a flourishing literature on 'biblical theology'.
£25.00
SCM Press Spirit of Life
Book SynopsisPart of Moltmann's contributions to systematic theology, this is an invitation to openness and the affirmation of life. A truly charismatic book, offering new hope and vision.
£31.56
SCM Press Studies in the Gospel of Mark
Book SynopsisHere Professor Hengel argues with a wealth of documentation that the traditional views of the origin and content of the Gospel of Mark have far more to be said for them than has been usually allowed by modern New Testament scholars.
£25.98
SCM Press The Trinity and the Kingdom of God The Doctrine of God
Book SynopsisMoltmann considers the interrelation of Christian concepts and doctrines with the aim of overcoming schism both within the churches and with Judaism. Offers profound insight into the relationship between suffering and God.
£30.00
SCM Press Unexpected Messiah or How the Bible Can Be Misleading
Book SynopsisLucas Grollenberg looks again at the messianic prophecies, the political and spiritual background to the life of Jesus, at Easter and Pentecost and the new community to which they gave rise, and its adoption of scriptures old and new. Finally, he considers what Jesus can truly be said to fulfil.
£25.98
Hymns Ancient & Modern Israelite and Judaean History
Book SynopsisIn this book, first issued in 1977, distinguished Old Testament scholars join forces to survey the history of the Old Testament period from earliest times to the Roman era. The present edition is a testimony to the book's enduring value and appeal.
£48.24
SCM Press The PreChristian Paul
Book SynopsisPaul, the first Christian author, the missionary to the Gentiles who may be said to be the founder of Christian theology, has long been a figure of prime importance to New Testament theologians. By contrast Saul, the Jew who had a vision on the Damascus road, has been almost forgotten. In this study Martin Hengel sets out to remedy the imbalance.
£25.00
SCM Press History and the Triune God
Book SynopsisThis new book takes forward Professor Moltmann's thought on the Trinity during the 1980s, It begins with a survey of the doctrine of the Trinity today, which sees the main issues as being the social doctrine of the Trinity, gender and the Trinity, and the Trinity and the cross, and ends with a fascinating retrospect, 'my theological career'.
£25.98
SCM Press Time Being
Book SynopsisDon Cupitt describes time-pessimism as the spiritual disorder of the age, and its cure as the prime task of postmodern religious thought. We must redeem and revalue time, transience and this mortal life of ours. He believes that it can be done. It really can be done.
£24.87
SCM Press A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period Volume 2 From the Exile to the Maccabees
Book SynopsisThis new, encyclopaedic work meets a considerable need. The two volumes cover the history of the religion of Israel and Judah from the earliest recognizable beginnings to the Hellenistic period and constantly take into account not only the other religions of the ancient Near East but also Israelite social history.
£25.00
SCM Press Faith and the Future
Book SynopsisJohann-Baptist Metz and Jurgen Moltmann have been among the most influential European theologians of the past thirty years. In complementary ways they have emphasized the eschatological character of Christianity in a way that does justice both to the transcendent and this-worldly implications of the gospel.
£25.98
SCM Press The Gnostic Scriptures A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions
Book SynopsisBentley Layton's The Gnostic Scriptures is the one indispensable book for the understanding of Gnosis and Gnosticism. No other translations are within light-years of Layton's in eloquence, pathos, and accuracy while no other commentaries match his as an introduction to this perpetually relevant religious stance.
£35.00
SCM Press The Coming of God
Book SynopsisCompletes the systematic theology which Moltmann began in 1980. Offers a rich discussion of belief in life after death, messianic eschatology and cosmic eschatology as advocated down history by its representatives.
£28.00
SCM Press In Memory of Her
Book SynopsisMore than ten years after it was first published, this book is as important and influential as when it first appeared. By way of celebration, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza has written a new introduction, surveying responses and developments over recent years and the issues which arise from them, and commenting on her own intentions.Trade ReviewHere is a classic alternative reconstruction of the early church from a woman's perspective. 'It is a serious contribution to women's history and, at the same time, it carries an argument for major reassessment of Christian living and church structure to the extent that they express partiarchal domination and continue to confirm it.' Theology
£31.35
SCM Press Systematic Theology
Book Synopsis1993 saw the publication in English of Mysterium Liberationis, a mammoth two-volume reference work on liberation theology originally published in Spanish. This abridged version contains the key themes of systematic theology from Mysterium Liberationis, comprising studies by the major liberation theologians on the heart of Christian doctrine.
£31.56
SCM Press Serious Talk
Book SynopsisSerious Talk begins with the search for an acceptable meeting point for science and religion. Following this are examinations of specific theological issues approached in the spirit of such a meeting point: creation, the role of chance, God's engagement with time, the anticipation of a destiny beyond death, and the end of the universe.
£18.19
SCM Press God and the Web of Creation
Book SynopsisThe ongoing ecological crisis keeps raising important questions for traditional Christian theology. If belief in God as creator means not only that God created the world in the first place but is involved in all that goes on in it, valuing creation and desiring its good, what form does divine action take in the world of today?
£25.98
SCM Press Gustavo Gutierrez
Book SynopsisThis book offers a selection of representative texts which should enable readers to perceive the whole breadth and depth of Gutierrez's challenge to late twentieth-century Christians.
£31.56
SCM Press Wolf in the Sheepfold
Book SynopsisThis provocative study, first published by SPCK in 1991, looks at how the Bible has been subjected to ideological manipulation. This second edition contains a substantial new Preface.
£20.42
SCM Press The Historical Jesus A Comprehensive Guide
Book SynopsisThe best available textbook on the historical Jesus.
£35.00
SCM Press The Signs of a Prophet
Book SynopsisHere is a fascinating study which contributes much to our understanding of the Gospel tradition and shows that biblical theology is still alive and flourishing.
£20.42
SCM Press History and Theology of the New Testament Writings
Book SynopsisThe first completely new introduction to the New Testament to appear from Germany since the 1970s and likely to replace the standard work by W.G. Kummel. Provides a comprehensive account of the current state of scholarship.
£28.00
SCM Press The Revelation of Being
Book SynopsisA companion to The Religion of Being which deserves to become a classic of modern spirituality. The analysis of a violent religious experience becomes a postmodern vision of the world and a secular version of the doctrine of the Trinity.
£14.86
SCM Press Signs of Life
Book SynopsisA brilliant collection from the pre-eminent New Testament scholar who wrote The Shadow of the Galilean. He believes that modern sermons are indications that God is alive and getting in touch through the barriers put up by our everyday mentality.
£25.98
SCM Press Animal Rites
£25.98
SCM Press Beyond Resurrection
Book SynopsisArgues that historical investigation of the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus in only the first stage. Investigation is also needed into the systematic and philosophical implications of the exegetical findings.
£30.00
SCM Press How to Read Bible Stories
Book SynopsisA welcome supplement to the bestselling How to Read the Old Testament and How to Read the New Testament, indicating more recent developments in biblical studies especially in the area of narrative criticism.
£24.87
SCM Press Holy Russia and Christian Europe
Book SynopsisInvestigates the Russians' own view of their conversion, the origin and development of the Russian religious-ideological myth from the 14th century to its secular transformation in the 18th century, the controversies of the 19th, and its influence now.
£25.98
SCM Press A Critique of Pastoral Care
Book SynopsisIn this work, the author advances a powerful case for a re-energized, committed public theology, alongside a politicized and compassionate form of pastoral care.
£28.00
SCM Press Practice of Theology A Reader
Book SynopsisThis accessible reader is focused on a standard theme for introductory level university courses in systematic theology. The texts are selected from a variety of positions from across the country, and are designed to promote engagement with major theological debates.Table of ContentsPart I Sources for theology: scripture as the source of Christian theology; the authority of the Christian tradition; the place of creeds and confessions; reasoning about God; reflecting on the experience of God. Part II The nature of theological claims: can we know anything about God anyway?; how do we know what we know?; the nature of religious language; neutral and committed knowledge. Part III Doing theology today: modernity and postmodernity; the rise of local theologies; Christian theology in a multi-faith world; theology in the academy; challenges and opportunities. Part IV Essay on doing theology, Colin E Gunton.
£26.60
SCM Press Spaces for the Sacred
Book SynopsisPhilip Sheldrake examines the sacred narratives which derive from both overtly religious sites such as cathedrals, and secular ones, like the Millennium Dome and suggests how Christian theological and spiritual traditions may contribute creatively to current debates about 'place'.Trade Review"highly original, erudite, and passionate work, which, in its 180 pages, causes you often to pause for breath before setting out down some unexpected route that turns out to offer new views on how faith has developed, and is expressed. (...) By the end, you know you have had a rich feast of reflection." DR Peter Selby, Bishop or Worcester, Church Times, 28 October 2005. "Pattison is offering an important thesis here. His approach is to see doctrine as conversation, and the task of exploring doctrine as participation in a living tradition. (...) I hope that it will be widely read so that we can have a richer mix of ways of doing doctrine today that often occurs." Clive Marsh, University of Nottingham, Epworth Review, April 2006. "It holds some intriguing insights and prescriptions, and may benefit more discerning readers who want a sampling of modern trends in theology and philosophy". Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, Spring 2007
£31.56
Hymns Ancient & Modern Theology of Compassion
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not on a return to outmoded concepts of essence, but in a new understanding of ontology as narrative and performance.
£26.60
SCM Press Honest to God SCM Classics
Book SynopsisOn first publication in the 1960s, "Honest to God" did more than instigate a passionate debate about the nature of Christian belief in a secular revolution. It epitomised the revolutionary mood of the era and articulated the anxieties of a generation.
£19.56
Hymns Ancient & Modern The Shadow of the Galilean SCM Classics
Book SynopsisCombining New Testament study with the terseness of thriller writing, Theissen conveys the Gospel story in the imaginative prose of a novel. This is a story of our times, or how the gospels might have turned out if they were written by John Le Carre: racy, readable and full of incident.
£38.36
SCM Press Theology of Liberation
Book SynopsisThis is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. This powerful, compassionate and radical book attracted criticism for daring to mix politics and religion in so daring a manner.
£33.00