Cuttle Fish, Clones and Cluster Bombs
Michael Northcott is a priest who is also Professor of Ethics at Edinburgh University. This book of his sermons is in the best tradition of…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
The Gospel in Brief
This year is the centenary of Tolstoy's death, so the appearance of this powerful book is timely. Some readers will know that Tolstoy was excommunicated…… Read More »
There Once Was a Serpent
This original book is an informal outline history of theology, with key stages wittily captured in a series of limericks. For instance, Pascal's famous wager…… Read More »
The Spiritual Dimension of Childhood
Authors: Brendan Hyde, Kate Adams, Richard Woolley
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
This book emerged from a conference on children's spirituality held in 2006. It contains a useful discussion of the nature and meaning of contemporary spirituality,…… Read More »
Who Chose the Gospels?
In the wake of the Dan Brown books and other arguments about the origin of the canonical gospels, this book seeks to set the record…… Read More »
The Book of One
One cannot help agreeing with Alan Jacobs, the author and chairman of the Ramana Maharshi Foundation that this is a 'masterful and profoundly insightful survey…… Read More »
New Proofs for the Existence of God
An extraordinary book drawing on contemporary developments in physics and philosophy and written as an antidote to recent books championing agnosticism or atheism. The author…… Read More »
The Secular Outlook
This book makes a refreshing change from the vituperative polemics of some new atheist writers, and has a more modest agenda, namely to show how…… Read More »
Between Relativism and Fundamentalism
The aim of this important book is to provide religious resources for reaching a middle position between relativism and fundamentalism. Peter Berger is well-known for…… Read More »
The Quest for Meaning
The author of the thoughtful book is professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford. He tackles a crucial issue of our time, namely how to…… Read More »