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Our Church
A Personal History of the Church of England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church...
In Search of Authority
Anglican Theological Method from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Anglican theology has been a hotbed of debate about the
issue of authority since the Reformation. What do we really appeal to when
attempting to decide matters of doctrine, worship, ministry or ethics? The
debate is very much alive today, between Evangelical, Liberal and Catholic
Anglicans around...
Enlightenment and Modernity
The English Deists and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into a more modern form.
Animating Liturgy
The Dynamics of Worship and the Human Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Liturgy forms both individuals and the community in the faith and life of the Christian gospel. Animating Liturgy invites you to consider the liturgical offering which stands at the heart of the Christian faith. It brings together essays by liturgist Stephen Platten which take us in three main directions:
the...
by Frank Sargeant
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Peter Green is a legend in the Diocese of Manchester, and a figure held up as an example, whose writing featured in my confirmation preparation long ago. His writings emphasise the need for the Anglo-Catholic faith and devotion to go hand in hand with evangelism, resulting in personal commitment to...
The English Deists
Studies in Early Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.
Battling the Gods
Atheism in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh...
The Devil's Delusion
Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Bestselling author David Berlinski's wise and witty assault on the pretensions of the scientific atheists
Militant atheism is on the rise. In recent years Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have produced a steady stream of best-selling books denigrating religious...
Brotherly Love
Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Friendship, an acquired relationship primarily based on choice rather than birth, lay at the heart of Enlightenment preoccupations with sociability and the formation of the private sphere. In Brotherly Love, Kenneth Loiselle argues that Freemasonry is an ideal arena in which to explore the changing...
Spirituality for the Skeptic : The Thoughtful Love of Life
The Thoughtful Love of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2002
Is it possible to be spiritual and yet not believe in the supernatural? Can a person be spiritual without belonging to a religious group or organization? In this book philosopher Robert Solomon offers challenging answers to these questions as he explodes commonly held myths about what is means to...
The Magic of Self-Respect
Awakening to your Own Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
So much of the experience of everyday life, says Osho in this insightful guide, is shaped by religious and social conditioning - and we are not even aware of the fact. We are constantly being pulled away from the unique nature that is our birthright. In place of that original and unique self, a false...
Danger: Truth at Work
The Courage to Accept the Unknowable
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Danger: Truth at Work goes to the heart of our most fundamental human issues. Why can’t we just live happily and be content? While we seem to have all the knowledge we need to solve our problems, we haven't. In this timely book, Osho explains that religious conditioning has held us back. Each chapter...
by Damon Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
DEISM (Lat. deus, god), strictly the belief in one supreme God. It is however the received name for a current of rationalistic theological thought which, though not confined to one country, or to any well-defined period, was most conspicuous in England in the last years of the 17th and the first...
by Christopher P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Christian and Pagan uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity.