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    Book Reviews

    The Book of Common Prayer – A Very Short Introduction

    The Book of Common Prayer – A Very Short Introduction

    Author: Brian Cummings
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion / Church History
    Many of us were brought up on the Book of Common Prayer, and I think back fondly to the many winter evenings when I attended…… Read More »
    The Middle Way

    The Middle Way

    Author: Robert M. Ellis
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality / Philosophy
    This wide-ranging study argues the case for Christian faith but against Christian belief with its absolutes and openness to intolerance rather than a provisional confidence…… Read More »
    Martinus

    Martinus

    Author: Martinus
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Mysticism / Cosmology
    Martinus lived in Denmark from 1890 to 1981 and had an opening in 1921, which he describes in terms of becoming his own source of…… Read More »

    Authors: Margarita Riakkenen, Roza Riakkenen
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spiritual Philosophy / Science
    This is an important and comprehensive work synthesising spiritual philosophy and science and written by a mother and daughter. Among the key sources are Madame…… Read More »
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    [Title not present in source text]

    Author: Alan Jacobs
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion / Christian Thought & Culture
    This is an interesting book about Christian humanism in an age of crisis, specifically during the Second World War. It features five Christian intellectuals –…… Read More »
    Western Philosophy Made Easy

    Western Philosophy Made Easy

    Author: Dennis Waite
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy
    Dennis Waite is the author of many books on Advaita, series provides an excellent and concise introduction to Western philosophy in a mere 100 pages.…… Read More »
    The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene

    The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene

    Authors: Jon Wittrock, Richard Polt
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy / Environmental Philosophy
    This volume this volume seeks to answer the question implicit in the title given our unprecedented situation characterised by the geological era of the Anthropocene.…… Read More »
    Why We Need Religion

    Why We Need Religion

    Author: Stephen T. Asma
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Religion
    The author is a professor of philosophy at Columbia College in Chicago who has also been a visiting professor at the Buddhist Institute in Cambodia.…… Read More »
    Being Spiritual but not Religious

    Being Spiritual but not Religious

    Author: William B. Parsons
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Religion
    Regrettably, Routledge continues to apply its policy of overpricing its hardback books, unlike Oxford University Press, so that only libraries can afford the hardback. You…… Read More »
    Art and Spiritual Experience

    Art and Spiritual Experience

    Author: David Greenwood
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Art & Spiritual Experience
    David Greenwood is an engineer and theologian who has been involved in the Alister Hardy Trust researching religious and spiritual experience, especially in relation to…… Read More »
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