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    Jesus in the World's Faiths

    Jesus in the World's Faiths

    Author: Gregory A Barker
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Comparative Religion / Interfaith Studies
    A unique book giving perspectives on Jesus from five religious traditions: Buddhism, Christianity itself, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. The format is a lead essay with…… Read More »
    The Kabbalah Experience

    The Kabbalah Experience

    Author: Naomi Ozaniec
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    This book is true to its subtitle - it is indeed a comprehensive practical guide to the Kabbalah, bringing it into a contemporary idiom corresponding…… Read More »
    Providence in the Book of Job

    Providence in the Book of Job

    Author: Jeremy I Pfeffer
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion / Theology
    A scholarly work addressing the problem of theodicy - the search for God's mind as the author puts it - through an analysis of the…… Read More »
    God's Advocates

    God's Advocates

    Author: Rupert Shortt
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion / Christian Theology
    Rupert Shortt is Religion Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and author of books on Rowan Williams and Benedict XVI - hence he is well…… Read More »
    On the Nature of Significance of the Crafts

    On the Nature of Significance of the Crafts

    Author: Brian Keeble
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Arts & Crafts / Philosophy
    Three short essays on the architect W. R. Lethaby, the calligrapher Edward Johnston and the writer Ananda Coomaraswamy, with an introduction by Keith Critchlow. The…… Read More »
    This Holy Man

    This Holy Man

    Author: Gillian Crow
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Biography / Spirituality
    I remember listening to the wisdom of Metropolitan Anthony at an early Mystics and Scientists conference in Winchester. He had a remarkable presence, to which…… Read More »
    Tomorrow's Faith

    Tomorrow's Faith

    Author: Adrian B Smith
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    This book could serve well as a text for a discussion of various aspects of faith. In the introduction Fr Smith urges the reader to…… Read More »
    The Worlds We Live In

    The Worlds We Live In

    Authors: Claire Foster, Edmund Newell
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Politics & Society
    A series of four dialogues on global politics and economics with Rowan Williams, organised by the St Paul's Institute and held in the Cathedral. The…… Read More »
    Meanings of Life

    Meanings of Life

    Author: Alex Wright
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    This book follows up an earlier work entitled 'Why Bother with Theology?' in putting forward an understanding of a secular spirituality in the sense of…… Read More »
    The Way of the Practical Mystic

    The Way of the Practical Mystic

    Author: Henry Thomas Hamblin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Mysticism
    Henry Thomas Hamblin launched the Science of Thought Review in Bosham, Sussex, in 1921 and the publication continues to this day under the new title…… Read More »
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