Spck imprint: 330 books
by Alister McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The Christian Belief for Everyone series comprises five guides to the basic ideas of the Christian faith. Full of stories and helpful illustrations, these guides have been written primarily for ordinary churchgoers, though they will no doubt also appeal to interested readers outside the church. The...
Making God Possible
The task of ordained ministry present and future
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
What are clergy for? In this lively and provocative volume, Alan Billings argues that they serve the mission and ministry of the Church, which is to make God possible. In each new era, how to carry out this mission effectively will vary, as the Church seeks to respond to changes in society and culture,...
Lost Church
Why We Must Find It Again
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
In trying to understand the relationship of the British people to religion - specifically Christianity - we tend to say that people: believe - or do not; attend - or do not. The argument of Lost Church is that the majority of people do not really fit either of these categories. Rather, they 'belong'...
The Things He Did
The story of Holy Week
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
One extraordinary week. Jesus rides a colt into Jerusalem. He shows righteous rage in the temple. He eats with the wrong sort of people. He lets a woman anoint him with oil. He washes his disciples’ feet. He breaks bread and shares wine. He prays passionately in the garden. He allows himself to...
by John Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
The bestselling Intercessions Handbook is designed for use in a wide range of formal and informal settings. In two introductory chapters, John Pritchard considers the importance and challenges of the vital task of intercession. He then offers practical examples of intercessions in traditional services,...
Is God for Real
Signposts and stories for people who wonder
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
There are moments in life when the everyday is touched by something more glorious than we usually encounter. The beauty of a summer dawn, the kindness of a stranger, the comfort of feeling held during a time of great personal difficulty - perhaps an experience like this has got us wondering. Perhaps...
Just Forgiveness
Exploring the Bible, weighing the issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Anthony Bash offers new insights into forgiveness from a biblical perspective, taking into account important findings in philosophy, politics and psychology. The book explores what the Bible says about forgiveness so that we can better experience its regenerative and renewing effects. It also looks...
The Anglican Understanding of the Church
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
What is the Church? The Anglican answer to this question is clearly given in this unrivalled short guide to what the churches in the Anglican Communion believe about themselves and their position in relation to others, such as the Orthodox Churches, the Roman Catholic Church and the Churches of the...
Steel Angels
The personal qualities of a priest
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The nine criteria the Church of England uses to discern potential vocations to the priesthood are explored, and linked with personal qualities that are necessary for new, but also existing, leaders in a church and culture which has changed much over the last 50 years. The nine criteria are: • Vocation...
Developing in Ministry
Handbook for effective Christian learning and training
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book describes how, in adopting an organic approach to ministry development, it is possible to make a real impact on people's lives and ministries; this approach is based on the organics model proposed by James Hopewell. Backed by thorough research, and wide reading in the literature, this book...
Making New Disciples
Exploring the Paradoxes of Evangelism
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Ten years on from their first book, Evangelism: Which way now? which has become a valuable and much recommended resource, Mark Ireland and Mike Booker aim to take people a step further. Making New Disciples offers a practical approach, based on careful theological reflection and years of hands-on...
Saint Patrick
The Man and his Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The only true apostle of Ireland who more or less converted the country single-handed? or A Christian bishop from the embattled edge of a crumbling empire? All that can really be known of Patrick comes from his authentic writings - the Confessio and the Epistola (Address to the Soldiers of Coroticus)....
Christianity and the New Social Order
A Manifesto for a Fairer Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Is Britain a broken society? Written in accessible language that speaks directly into church, public sphere and also academy it enters the current political, economic and social policy/civil society debates concerning the values and directions of British society. It covers religion and the public...
Introducing Science and Religion
A path through polemic
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
We can look at science and religion and see conflict; or we can separate them into different worlds. This book helps the reader understand both sides of this 'conflict' and how they throw light on each other's approach. Of particular interest is what we are learning about personality, mind and psychology,...