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R N Bhattacharya The Relevence of Latin American Church to Indian
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£15.00
Diamond Books Gautam Buddha: The Spiritual Light of Asia
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£11.24
HarperCollins India Mystics and Sceptics: In Search of Himalayan
Book SynopsisThe stories herein are as varied as the flora and fauna of the mountains.
£20.42
HarperCollins Publishers BEST LOVED PRAYERS AND WORDS OF WISDOM
Book SynopsisA timeless collection of prayers, quotes, poems and speeches for every occasion. Complete with a brief introduction to each piece and its author, this book features words and prayers from 300BC to the present day. It provides a great source of inspiration when planning a speech or ceremonial occasion or can be used for personal devotions.
£14.24
Oxford University Press Billy Graham American Pilgrim
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Oxford University Press Inc Recycled Lives A History of Reincarnation in Blavatskys Theosophy Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
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Oxford University Press Bodies of Song
Book SynopsisKabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song. Scholars and translators usually attend to written collections, but these present only a partial picture of the Kabir who has remained vibrantly alive through the centuries mostly in oral forms. Entering the worlds of singers and listeners in rural Madhya Pradesh, Bodies of Song combines ethnographic and textual study in exploring how oral transmission and performance shape the content and interpretation of vernacular poetry in North India. The book investigates textual scholars'' study of oral-performative traditions in a milieu where texts move simultaneously via oral, written, audio/video-recorded, and electronic pathways.As texts and performances are always socially embedded, Linda Hess brings readers into the lives of those who sing, hear, celebrate, revere, and dispute about Kabir. Bodies of SonTrade ReviewRecommended. * J. Bussanich, CHOICE *Hess decodes (for the uninitiated) the experience, confidence, and wisdom of ordinary men and women of India. She shows us how people have been living out their inner and outer lives and how they have been enriching further the traditional "bodies of song" through performance. By this decoding, Hess has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of some of the most poignant aspects of Indian religiosity. * Purushottam Agrawal, ITM University, The Journal of Religion *Table of ContentsTransliteration ; Acknowledgements ; Preface ; 1. "You Must Meet Prahladji!" ; 2. Oral Tradition in the Twenty-first Century: Observing Texts ; 3. "True Words of Kabir": Adventures in Authenticity ; 4. In the Jeweler's Bazaar: Malwa's Kabir ; 5. Oral Tradition in the Twenty-first Century: Exploring Theory ; 6. A Scorching Fire, A Cool Pool ; 7. Fighting over Kabir's Dead Body ; 8. Political/Spiritual Kabir ; References ; Index
£52.25
Oxford University Press Empire of Souls Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Book SynopsisRobert Bellarmine was one of the pillars of post-Reformation Catholicism: he was a celebrated theologian and a highly ranked member of the Congregations of the Inquisition and of the Index, the censor in charge of the Galileo affair. Bellarmine was also one of the most original political theorists of his time, and he participated directly in many of the political conflicts that agitated Europe between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. Stefania Tutino offers the first full-length study of the impact of Bellarmine''s theory of the potestas indirecta in early modern Europe. Following the reactions to Bellarmine''s theory across national and confessional boundaries, this book explores some of the most crucial political and theological knots in the history of post-Reformation Europe, from the controversy over the Oath of Allegiance to the battle over the Interdetto in Venice. The book sets those political and religious controversies against the background of the theological and institutional developments of the post-Tridentine Catholic Church. By examining the violent and at times surprising controversies originated by Bellarmine''s theory, this book challenges some of the traditional assumptions regarding the theological shape of post-Tridentine Catholicism; it offers a fresh perspective on the centrality of the links between confessional affiliation and political allegiance in the development of the modern nation-states; and it contributes to our understanding of the development of ''modern'' notions of power and authority.Trade Reviewan important contribution to and arguably necessary for studies of Bellarmine and of early modern Catholicism * Orlando O. Espín, Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Stefania Tutino is emerging as one of the more influential younger scholars on Catholic political theory ca. 1600, and her most recent book is yet another valuable contribution to this area of research. * Marcus Friedrich, Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1570s-1580s: the foundations of Bellarmine's potestas indirecta ; 1580s-1590s: the controversies over the Controversiae ; The controversy over the Interdetto and the attacks against Bellarmine's theory ; Bellarmine and the Oath of Allegiance ; Robert Bellarmine and the potestas indirecta: Continental repercussions ; The making of a scapegoat: the case of Martin Becanus ; Robert Bellarmine and the Catholic Church: questions of power and authority ; Bibliography ; Index
£104.50
Tellwell Talent Canadian Catholic Spirituality Saints and Sinners over Four Centuries 1 Saints and Sinners in Canadian Spirituality Over Four Centuries
£20.56
Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd Ministry and Priesthood
Book SynopsisTraining books for church colleges and lay training courses.
£19.57
Zondervan Serving as a Church Greeter
£7.26
Zondervan The Monkey and the Fish
Book SynopsisOur world is marked by unprecedented degrees of multiculturalism, ethnic diversity, social shifts, international collaboration, and technology-driven changes. The changes are profound, especially when you consider the unchecked decline in the influence, size, and social standing of the church. There is an undercurrent of anxiety in the evangelical world, and a hunger for something new. And we're sensing the urgency of it.We need fresh, creative counterintuitive ways of doing ministry and church and leading it in the 21st century. We need to adapt. Fast. Both in our practices and our thinking. The aim of this book is simple: When we understand the powerful forces at work in the world today, we'll learn how something called The Third Culture can yield perhaps the most critical missing ingredient in the church todayadaptabilityand help the church remain on the best side of history. A Third Culture Church and a Third Culture Leader looks at our new global village and the church's role in t
£11.39
Zondervan Gospel Coach
Book SynopsisMany ministry leaders serving in churches find themselves overwhelmed, disillusioned, and depressed by the enormous and challenging task of leading and serving others. When leaders aren’t healthy, the result is often an unhealthy church. Leaders need someone to shepherd their soul so that they can then lead others to the Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Every church leader—from fulltime ministers to volunteer leaders—needs a Gospel Coach who will come alongside them with words drawn from Scripture and godly wisdom, grounded in the gracious saving work of Jesus Christ, and presented in the context of a trusting relationship. Gospel coaching is an intentional relationship of skillful caring for others based on four ancient shepherding principles: 1) Know the sheep 2) Feed the sheep 3) Lead the sheep 4) Protect the sheep Gospel coaches inquire about the personal, spiritual, and missional aspects of a leader’s life in a loving yet focused manner, probing the heart f
£15.71
Zondervan Bourgeois Babes Bossy Wives and Bobby Haircuts
Book SynopsisTaking a stand over the gender-issue divide Author and New Testament scholar Michael Bird was formerly in favor of distinct gender roles in ministry, a viewpoint commonly called complementarianism. But inconsistencies in practice and careful biblical study convinced him to rethink his position.Originally published as a short ebook, Bourgeois Babes, Bossy Wives, and Bobby Haircuts offers an engaging, incisive perspective on biblical gender equality and the egalitarian viewa preference for allowing women to hold teaching and leadership positions in ministry.While Bird is now egalitarian, he nevertheless strikes a respectful tone toward those in his previous camp, seeking to craft a perspective that both values women and upholds biblical differences between the sexes. Humorous and hard-hitting, Bird will challenge readers on both sides of the gender-issue divide.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Fretting over Phoebe 2. Who is Who in the Zoo? 3. Women in Pauline Churches Conclusion Epilogue: Who the Heck Was Ilse Fredrichsdorff?
£12.89
Zondervan Hearing Her Voice Revised Edition
Book SynopsisA fresh approach to the hot-button topic of women in ministryBased on his study of a key word for teaching in the New Testamentan activity often thought to be prohibited to womenand on various other kinds of public speaking in which women in Scripture clearly participated, scholar John Dickson builds a case for women preachers.This expanded edition of Hearing Her Voice, published originally as a short ebook, presents an entirely new and convincing biblical argument. Focused and purposefully limited in its conclusions, Dickson's case has the potential to change minds and merits careful consideration by complementarians and egalitarians alike.This book will be useful for pastors, Bible teachers, college and seminary students, professors, and lay leaders who wrestle with the topic of women's roles in ministry, and it will appeal to many with its fresh approach to this hot-button topic.
£12.89
Palgrave MacMillan Us A Womans Way The Forgotten History of Women Spiritual Directors
Book SynopsisGiven the significance of spiritual direction in modern Christianity, surprisingly little attention has been given to the tradition upon which today s spiritual direction is built.Trade Review'A Woman's Way promises to make a valuable contribution to these continuing debates, contesting accepted understandings of gender hierarchies in the past and providing detailed evidence of the contribution women have made to the universal search for meaning.' - Shurlee Swain, Journal of Religious HistoryTable of ContentsDirection in the Desert Direction Comes West The Age of Spiritual Advice The Visionary and the Confessor-Interrogator The Dawn of the Golden Age The Golden Age Continued Direction and Revolution Contemporary Spiritual Direction
£44.99
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 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 Jesus and the World of Judaism
Book SynopsisThese studies develop further the investigation carried out in Dr Vermes' books Jesus the Jew and The Dead Sea Scrolls and shed light on many important and controversial issues from that period.
£25.98
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 Anselm of Canterbury
£25.98
SCM Press Jesus the Jew SCM Classics
Book SynopsisFreed from the weight and onus of Christian doctrine or Jewish animus, Jesus here appears as a vividly human, yet profoundly misunderstood, figure, thoroughly grounded and contextualized within the intellectual and cultural cross-currents of his day.
£35.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Secrets Of Shamanism
Book SynopsisFor untold centuries, the shaman was the tribe's most revered and respected member, possessing the unique ability to tap into the universal source of wisdom by journeying deep within the self -- seeking, and finding, answers to pressing questions, achieving profound understanding by avoiding the stumbling blocks of the outer material world. Developing techniques for communicating with the innermost world of the spirit can be a valuable boon in these modern times with their contemporary problems and concerns. Through a series of easy-to-follow exercises, lessons, and rituals, psychologist Jose Stevens and wife, Lena, can show you how to identify your inner spiritual guides -- and how, through a unique and powerful communication with them, you can achieve undreamed-of professional success, psychological enlightenment, and personal fulfillment ... and completely change the way you live your life
£8.54
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Jesus of Nazareth The Infancy Narratives 3
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling final volume in the Pope’s Jesus of Nazareth series, detailing how the stories of Jesus’ infancy and childhood are as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago. In 2007, Joseph Ratzinger published his first book as Pope Benedict XVI in order “to make known the figure and message of Jesus.” Now, the Pope focuses exclusively on the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life as a child. The root of these stories is the experience of hope found in the birth of Jesus and the affirmations of surrender and service embodied in his parents, Joseph and Mary. This is a story of longing and seeking, as demonstrated by the Magi searching for the redemption offered by the birth of a new king. It is a story of sacrifice and trusting completely in the wisdom of God as seen in the faith of Simeon, the just and devout man of Jerusalem, when he is in the presence of the Christ child. Ultimately, Jesus’ life and message is a story for today, one that speaks to the restlessness of the human heart searching for the sole truth which alone leads to profound joy.
£17.00
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Journal of a Soul The Autobiography of Pope John
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Martyrdom A Guide for the Perplexed Guides for the Perplexed
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£24.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Women and Ordination in the Christian Churches International Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe is a minister in the United Reformed Church.Janet Wootton is minister of Union Chapel, Islington, and founder-co-chair of the International Congregational Theological Commission.Trade ReviewMention -Book News, February 2009Title mention in Women in Ministry, October 2009Review in Theologische Literaturzeitung 35, 2010"This substantial volume of essays ... [and their] deliberations ... offer a 'state of the art overview of women in ministry at the beginning of the 21st century' ... All its chapters are both accessible and informative..." - John Drane, Theological Book Review, Vol 21 No 1, 2009 -- J. Drane * Theological Book Review *The expressed hope of the editors is that the volume “will contribute to the wider debates of feminist theology and ecclesiology” (p. 17). This is a collection rich in theological, historical and social insight, offering a number of perspectives into the challenges facing the ordained ministry of women, and also the challenges presented by it, as Rachele Vernon’s Caribbean perspective suggests: “The admission of women to the threefold order of ministry does far more than change the face of Anglican priesthood. It profoundly alters the entire anatomy of ministry’ (p. 223). The volume more than lives up to the editors’ hope, and it deserves to be read and engaged with more widely than its expensive, hardback publication will perhaps allow. -- Reverend Dr. Hannah Cleugh, Diocese of Oxford, UK * Equinox Online *This is a collection rich in theological, historical and social insight, offering a number of perspectives into the challenges facing the ordained ministry of women, and also the challenges presented by it... The volume more than lives up to the editors’ hope, and it deserves to be read and engaged with more widely. -- Revd Dr Hannah Cleugh, Diocese of Oxford * Theology and Sexuality *Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Ian Jones, Kirsty Thorpe and Janet Wootton; Part I: Theological Perspectives; 1: Hermeneutical Questions: the Ordination of Women in the Light of Biblical and Patristic Typology Frances Young; 2: The Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church Catherine Gyarmathy-Amherd; 3: The Ordination of Women from an Orthodox Perspective Katerina Karkala-Zorba; 4: Should Theological Education Be Different for Clergywomen? Doing Women's Work; in a Mainline Protestant Seminary Ellen Blue; 5: Doing Leadership Differently? Women and Senior Leadership in the Church of England Rosie Ward; Part II: Historical Perspectives; 6: Winifred Kiek, Migration and the Prophetic Role of Congregational Women Ministers in Australia, 1927- 1977 Julia Pitman; 7: Women and Ministry within the British Unitarian Movement Ann Peart; 8: The Process in the Church of Sweden towards the Ordination of Women as Priests and the Consecration of Women as Bishops Christina Odenberg; 9: The Ordination of Women in Africa: a Historical Perspective Esther Mombo; 10: Women's Ordination in the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht: Discussion, Decision- Making and Reception Angela Berlis; Part III: Sociological Perspectives; 11: Forever pruning? The Path to Ordained Women's Full Participation in the Episcopal Church of the United States of America Adair Lummis; 12: The Feminisation and Professionalisation of Ordained Ministry within the M'ohi Protestant Church in French Polynesia Gwendoline Malogne-Fer; 13: Neither Male nor Female: Tradition, Ordination and Nigerian Female Leaders of New Generation Churches Bolaji Bateye; 14: One Ministry, Separate Spheres: The Experiences of Ordained Women in Senior Leadership in The Salvation Army in the UK Helen Cameron and Gillian Jackson; 15: Daughters of Jerusalem, Mothers of Salem: Caribbean Women in the Ministry of the Anglican Church Evie Vernon; Afterword Ian Jones.
£37.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Forward Fire
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iUniverse Praise Goeth Before Thee A Study of the Praise Life of the Believer
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iUniverse Dear Timothy
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iUniverse Maiden Voyage Practical Advice for New Pastors
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£12.21
iUniverse BRINGING IN THE SHEEP MINISTRIES A Leadership Guide and Workbook
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iUniverse Azure Wind Lessons for Ministry from Under Sail
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iUniverse Spirit Leadership How the Experience of the Spirit Fashions Leaders for the Church
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iUniverse From a Womans Heart A Feminine Perspective of God
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iUniverse Unexpected Company Former Jesuits Talk About Their Lives
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iUniverse Making Church Matter
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iUniverse Praise Goeth Before Thee A Study of the Praise Life of the Believer
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Cityharvest International Inside Out A Biblical and Practical Guide to Selfleadership
£17.53
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. The Soul of Ministry Forming Leaders for Gods People
Book SynopsisRay Anderson offers an inspiring call for Christian leaders to view Jesus as a model for their own ministry today. The Soul of Ministry explores the idea of ministry across denominations and discovers its soul in God's love for the world. Designed for pastors of all denominations, this book combines social biblical theology with numerous...
£28.50
Westminster John Knox Press John NTL A Commentary
£61.13
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. Matthew
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Westminster John Knox Press A ThreeDimensional Jesus
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Abingdon Press To Spread the Power Church Growth in the Wesleyan Spirit
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Deputation Trail Ministry or a Means to an End
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Small Groups for the Rest of Us
Book SynopsisMost churches in America struggle to have a significant percentage of their adult attendance in small groups. According to recent research done by Lifeway Research, only “33 percent of churchgoers attend classes or groups for adults (such as Sunday school, Bible study, small groups, or Adult Bible Fellowships) four or more times in a typical month. Fourteen percent attend two or three times a month.”Life transformation happens best within the context of community, so if a church is going to be intentional about discipleship they have to develop on-ramps to small groups that reach people on the fringes and beyond. If we continue to offer small groups to the normal church attenders, a majority of the people who show up to church are never reached.Pastors, church staff and small group leaders are trying to figure out how to make small groups work in their church and they don’t know how. Small Groups For The Rest Of Us gives them practical, prove
£13.29
Thomas Nelson Publishers One Thing
Book SynopsisCHRISTIANS SHOULD BE REVOLUTIONARIES! WE SHOULD BE BRINGING A REVOLUTION TO OUR WORLD.Today''s world needs a revolution. But not a violent one. We''ve had plenty of those. We need a revolution that changes hearts and minds. Jesus didn''t come to earth just to change your Sunday morning routine. He came to change your life every day and in every way.The Right and Left are growing farther apart each week. Liberal politicians and conservatives are in a moral and political take-no-prisoners civil war. And the expanding divide is evident, not just in politics, but also in the arts, education, business, journalism, science, technology, social services, the military, and even in the faith community.Today''s emerging generation is fed up with an unengaged, judgmental Christianity that is afraid to get its hands dirty with real change but is more than willing to shout at the decaying world from a distance. We simply must take a different stance in this world if we w
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