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by Professor Keith Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Many commentators today claim that religion is dangerous and harmful. In addressing this question, Keith Ward begins by defining what religion actually is and how most human harm has been caused. He then looks at why people say that religion is dangerous, focusing particularly on religious wars and...
More than Matter?
What Humans Really Are
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
The question of what it is to be a human person is the biggest intellectual question of our day.' Keith Ward has taught philosophy and theology in British universities for the past 40 years, and he is now weighing in on a major intellectual battle: whether human persons are purely materialistic -...
by Keith Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
If the New Atheists are to be believed, religious belief is not only dangerous and irrational, but just plain stupid. With increasingly intolerant polemic they are dismissing the views of religious people, and misconstruing them in the process. In this book, Keith Ward debunks the notion that rationality...
What Matters Most
Finding spiritual treasure in everyday life
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
If you feel that you are hurtling through life, pouring energy, money and time into things that may not matter in the end - and you want to STOP - then this book is for you. It will help you find the space to discover WHAT REALLY MATTERS to you - and how to integrate it more fully into your daily...
Slaying the Dragons
Destroying myths in the history of science and faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Are science and faith, particularly Christianity, inevitably in conflict, as the New Atheists proclaim? Have they not always been so? Weren't early scientists hounded for their discoveries until Darwin burst on the scene and sent faith packing? Not if you look at the facts, says Dr Allan Chapman,...
The Bible Guide
An all-in-one introduction to the book of books
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The Bible Guide is comprehensive in its scope and yet easy to read and enjoyable to use. Here in one volume is a detailed and illuminating guide to every book of the Bible. Unlike traditional commentaries, The Bible Guide is self-contained; readers do not have to cross-refer to Bible texts. The fact...
Gunning for God
Why the New Atheists are missing the target
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Atheism is on the march in the western world, and its enemy is God. Religion, the New Atheists claim, is dangerous, it kills or poisons everything. And if religion is the problem with the world, their answer is simple: get rid of it. But are things really so straightforward? Tackling the likes of...
by Simon Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
What is dementia? Is it the same as Alzheimer's? What symptoms should you look out for? Where can you go to find help? What treatments are available? In this short but comprehensive introduction, Dr Simon Atkins clears away the myths, and sets out the facts about this increasingly common condition....
Making Marion
Where is Robin Hood when you need him?
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
She had been looking for somewhere to stay, but instead Marion Miller finds herself on the wrong side of the reception desk at the Peace and Pigs campsite and, despite her horrible shyness, promptly lands herself a job. Marion came to Sherwood Forest to discover her father's mysterious past, but all...
by Margaret Silf
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Wisdom for life's journey from around the world
Why can't they get along?
A conversation between a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Christians, Muslims and Jews all stem from one man, Abraham, and yet relations between them are so often strained. Three men of faith: one Jew, one Muslim and one Christian debate the differences between them. The result is a compelling discussion: What do their faiths teach on the big issues of life?...
In the Eye of the Storm
The autobiography of Sir John Houghton
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
For John Houghton, the Chief Executive of the Met Office at the time of the Great Storm in 1987, and founding member of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), childhood curiosity about the natural world led to a quest for answers through science. Inspired by new,...
by Carsten Meedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Jesus Christ is one of the most revered and, at the same time, maligned figures in human history. What is the truth about him? Can we reliably know anything at all? In this clear and authoritative book, a leading historian and theologian faces head-on the difficult questions about the historical Jesus....
The Essential Guide to Burnout
Overcoming Excess Stress
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Increasing numbers of people are enduring huge levels of stress, economic pressures, family concerns, worries about jobs and health all contribute. And for many, the stress gets worse, increasing until they cannot even get out of bed to start the day. Their personality changes, their relationships...