James Clarke Co: 50 books
Accessing Alcuin
A Master Bibliography for 'Alcuin: His Life and Legacy' and 'Alcuin: Theology and Thought'
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Accessing Alcuin enables an excellent multi-disciplinary appreciation of the scholar and theologian, Alcuin, through the manuscript collections and scholarship of medieval history and culture, European Church history and theology. Douglas Dales has provided an authoritative bibliography that comprehensively...
Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720-1798
A Political and Religious Crisis in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
In this compelling narrative, Bernard Heyberger relates the fascinating history of Hindiyya 'Ujaymi, a highly charismatic eighteenth-century mystic of sinister repute.
Heyberger makes a careful study of Hindiyya's life from earliest childhood, with a detailed picture of her formative years...
God, Man and the Church
The Spiritual Foundations of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
During the year after its first publication in Russian in 1885, "God, Man and the Church" rapidly established a reputation as a seminal work of Russian theology. It is a penetrating examination of man's relationship - both as an individual and in society - with God. For Solovyev, personal...
Alcuin
His Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Douglas Dales provides a comprehensive study of the life of one of the most underrated figures of the early medieval Western Church. Alcuin left behind him a varied selection of correspondence and other documents which attest to his prominence as a statesman, theologian, poet, friend, and teacher....
Richard Hooker and the Vision of God
Exploring the Origins of 'Anglicanism'
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Finally filling the gap between specialist volumes and ‘companion texts’, Charles Miller's rigorous and well written exploration of the works and theology of Richard Hooker is a comprehensive and critical testament to one of the most important founders of Anglican thought
Miller introduces...
Send Back the Money!'
The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
‘Send Back the Money!’ is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery campaign ‘Send back the Money!’ named after...
The One and the Three
Nature, Person and Triadic Monarchy in the Greek and Irish Patristic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The One and the Three explores parallels between Byzantine and early Irish monastic traditions, finding in both a markedly trinitarian theology founded on God’s contemplation and ascetic experience. Chrysostom Koutloumousianos refutes modern theological theses that affect ecclesiology, and contrasts...
Traces of the Trinity
Signs, Sacraments and Sharing God's Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Traces of the Trinity is a masterful exploration of Christian theology through the lens of semiotics – the study of signs. Andrew Robinson provides helpful analogies and clear explanations throughout to lead even the non-specialist through the subject with ease.
Although the variety of signs is...
by Søren Kierkegaard, A.S. Aldworth, W.S. Ferrie Ferrie
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
“On the way where a man follows Christ, the height of suffering is the height of glory.”
So writes Kierkegaard, long considered the father of existentialism, in his comprehensive explanation of how suffering in all its forms is transformed into joy by faith in God. As an integral part of his ‘Edifying...
Reading Scripture to Hear God
Kevin Vanhoozer and Henri de Lubac on God's Use of Scripture in the Economy of Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Recent theological discussions between Catholics and Evangelicals have generated a renewed appreciation for God's ongoing use of Scripture for self-mediation to the Church. Noting the significant influence of Henri de Lubac (one of the drafters of 'Dei Verbum' and proponent of a renewal of the Patristic...
The English Connection
The Puritan Roots of Seventh-Day Adventist Belief (2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
"Seventeenth-century England was a confused world of conflicting religious thought, made more complex by the tumultuous events of the English Civil Wars and the Interregnum under Oliver Cromwell. Puritanism, a thoroughly Protestant off shoot of the Reformation in England, was to take centre stage...
The Dialogical Spirit
Christian Reason and Theological Method in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Contemporary proposals for Christian theology from post-liberalism to Radical Orthodoxy and beyond have espoused their own methodological paradigms. Those who have ventured into this domain of theological method, however, have usually had to stake their claims vis-à-vis trends in what may be called...
Alcuin
Theology and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Scholar, ecclesiastic, teacher and poet of the eighth century, Alcuin can be seen as a true hidden saint of the Church, of the same stature and significance as his predecessor Bede. His love of God and his grasp of Christian theology were rendered original in their creative impact by his gifts as...
The Philokalia and the Inner Life
On Passions and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Philokalia was published in Venice in 1782. It is an anthology of patristic writings from the Eastern Church, spanning the 4th to the 15th Centuries, which has been the subsequent focus of a significant revival in Orthodox spirituality. It presents an understanding of psychopathology and mental...