Doctrine, Theology & Ethics

'Where On Earth Is Heaven?' - asks Paula Gooder.

'Why Read The Bible?' - asks Tom Wright. The Bible is a big book full of big stories with big characters. They have big ideas (not least about themselves) and make big mistakes. It's about God and greed and about grace. It's about life, lust, laughter and loneliness.

The SPCK Dictionary of Theology and Hermeneutics is a tour de force by one of Britain's leading theological scholars.

'Mere Apologetics' helps the reader work out their own way to effectively communicate the gospel. Armed with the tools we need to engage others on this subject, we are guided on choosing the best approach for our particular personality and how we can adapt our approach to suit our audience. Practical, insightful and warmly affirming, this book will have you longing for a chance to put these techniques into practice.

Drawing on research carried out at part of the Baptism Project, and making helpful connections with popular catechetical material from sources such as Pilgrim, Simon Jones considers how, where, and for whom rites of Christian initiation are celebrated, and how baptism has been rediscovered as fundamental to the Church's identity and mission.

Who was Jesus? This short study, with a historical leaning towards Jesus the historical figure, explores the Jesus who lived 2000 years ago.

'The Landscape Of Faith' is an explorer's guide to the Christian creeds. At Oxford University in the 1970s, Alister McGrath faced a crisis when he realized that his scientific atheism made less sense of reality than the ‘big picture’ offered by Christianity. A reluctant convert, he was astonished by the delight he found iin exploring a previously unknown world of ideas.

Life is at once wonderful and appalling, beautiful and horrific. Although we can all give meaning to our lives by trying to live well, is there some given meaning to be discovered? Science cannot answer this question, and philosophical arguments leave the issue open. The monotheistic religions claim that the meaning has been revealed to us, and Christians see this is above all in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

With characteristic style, John Pritchard takes us on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, as he unpacks the five great events that made Christianity – Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost. We explore: * What happened? * What did it mean? * What does it mean for us?

In this comprehensive study of the life of the apostle Paul, Tom Wright covers all aspects of his ministry including; Beginnings in Damascus and Antioch; through to Athens and Ephesus, then concluding with the challenge of Paul.

Building on his critically acclaimed Gifford Lectures, N. T. Wright presents a richly nuanced case for a theology based on a renewed understanding of historical knowledge. The question of 'natural theology' interlocks with the related questions of

In his latest book Outgrowing God, Richard Dawkins tries to show that all religious belief is intellectually nonsensical and thus highly damaging in practice. But does he even understand what he rejects? In this incisive rebuttal, Rupert Shortt exposes the main flaws in Dawkins’s arguments – his weakness for crude caricatures, selective way with evidence, ignorance of philosophy and history as well as theology, and even his questionable interpretations of science. At the same time Outgrowing Dawkins demonstrates the coherence of a mature, self-critical faith and its contribution to human progress.

Ground Your Faith in the Major Doctrines of the BibleAll the Doctrines of the Bible gives you a grasp of the Bible’s key teachings. Beginning with a chapter on how to study Bible doctrine, this book provides you with studies and analyses of thirty im

Around twenty years or so after his death, the fiery and interesting Jewish teacher Jesus of Nazareth was made into the personification of his own teaching, and given an exalted cosmic status.

Talking about God in Practice details the challenges and complexities of real theological conversations with practitioners, whilst providing an example of appropriate process, and a model of theological understanding by which to negotiate these complexities fruitfully.

A Practical & Theologhical handbook Developing Faithful Ministers aims to support the work of all those involved in supervision and training relationships within the Church.

Theological reflections for human flourishing Helen Cameron, John Reader, Victoria Slater with Chris Rowland

Remixing the Church makes a unique and original contribution to debates about emerging church, by offering a clear and dynamic model of how church traditions change over time.

It is too inhibited. Instead, we need to work out, and start living out, the philosophy and the ethic of the final world, now. It is a world in which the original spirituality of the 'inner life' is replaced by a new religion of 'self-outing' and putting on a 'good show' - the religion of 'solar' generosity that Cupitt attributes to the original Jesus.

It has been said that the day of the sermon is over. Kate Bruce argues that the day of the poorly conceived, ill prepared, dull, disconnected, boring, irrelevant, authoritarian, yawn-inducing, patronizing, pontificating, pointless and badly delivered sermon, is indeed over.