Doctrine, Theology & Ethics

As western awareness of spirituality increases, Peter Mockford believes deliverance ministry will be critical to the church s mission and future success.

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.

A fresh theological exposition that helps us to think and speak more faithfully about God.

In The Meal Jesus Gave Us, Tom Wright - respected professor of New Testament and early Christian theology, and highly readable author of his For Everyone Bible guides, gives you a short, simple and thoroughly biblical overview of the meaning and purpose of Holy Communion.

Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica have assembled this stellar one-stop guide exploring four major interpretive perspectives on the apostle Paul: Reformational, New, Apocalyptic, and Participationist. First elucidated by a scholarly essay, each perspective is then illuminated by three sermons expositing various passages from Paul's magisterial letter to the Romans.

'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.

A short, readable book that explains clearly and simply what Christians believe about the Bible and how God speaks today.

A short, readable book that explains clearly and simply what the Bible says about Jesus' return and the end of the world.

What exactly are we? The modern world has many answers to that question, each of which has consequences for the choices we make about our own life and the lives of others.

Amid all the popular conjecture about Heaven, what does the Bible actually say? And why does it matter? Chip Ingram sets aside the hype and myths and digs into the Scriptures to discover what God actually wants us to know about the afterlife hereafter. Most importantly, Ingram shows why our understanding of Heaven matters now, in this life. Because what we believe about Heaven actually affects us today in ways we may not have imagined.

Many Christians are fearful of engaging in conversation with atheists - thinking they will be hostile to Christian beliefs and conversations about the Bible.

Ethnicity : The Inclusive Church Resource, offers personal experiences together with theological and practical resources. It aims to be the ideal handbook for churches seeking to be welcoming and open to all.

Talking about ethics tends to involve talking about what we should or, more often, shouldn't do. We talk about setting limits on actions that, for whatever reason, we think are either wrong or somehow harmful to ourselves or others. The aim off this book, however, is to explore Christian ethics within a wider, more positive framework – one that that views Christianity's moral resources as part of the good news that it proclaims to all creation.

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

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.

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.

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.