Doctrine, Theology & Ethics

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.

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.

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.

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

In God, Neighbour, Empire, renowned Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggeman brings us a characteristically penetrating and provocative account of the ways in which the Old Testament is offered as an alternative to the imperial narrative that dominates ordinary imagination both in ancient times and in the present.

In this second edition of this provocative and important book, Post-Christendom identifies the challenges and opportunities of this unsettling but exciting time. Stuart Murray presents an overview of the formation and development of the Christendom system, examines the legacies this has left, and highlights the questions that the Christian community needs to consider in this period of cultural tra

Theology, says Brian McLaren, is at its best when it is in conversation with the wild world that flourishes beyond our walls and outside our windows and cities.

The Christian Life and Hope by Alister McGrath explores the great theme of the Christian hope, and the way in which this transforms and sustains the Christian life.

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?

On 29th May 1919, British astronomers tested Einstein's theory of relativity by measuring the path of the stars travelling near the sun during an eclipse. On 7th November 1919, the results of that experiment were announced in London, proving Einstein's theory of relativity. A Theory of Everything (that Matters) has been written in celebration of this 100th anniversary.

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.

Philosophy of religion contains some of our most burning questions about the role of religion in the world, and the relationship between believers and God.

'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.