The Lutterworth Press: 51 books
1 Timothy
A New Covenant Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
In a thorough and insightful commentary on Paul’s letter to his co-worker Timothy, which the Apostle wrote before and during Nero’s persecution, Aída Besançon Spencer carefully examines each part of the letter and reveals Paul’s rhetorical and stylistic features, as well as placing the letter...
Anglo-Catholic in Religion
T.S. Eliot and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Barry Spurr's eagerly-awaited, definitive study of T.S. Eliot's Anglo-Catholic belief and practice shows how the poet's religion shaped his life and work for almost forty years, until his death in 1965. The author examines Eliot's formal adoption of Anglo-Catholicism, in 1927, as the culmination of...
C.T. Studd
Cricketer and Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
Nurtured in the lap of comfort, educated at Eton and Cambridge, the hero of the British sport-loving public, C. T. Studd, whose Cambridge career has been described as "one long blaze of cricketing glory", created a stir in the secular world of his youth by renouncing wealth and position...
Words of Power
Reading Shakespeare and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
"Shakespeare and the Bible are two of the icons of world culture. They are interwoven into the language and customs of much of the English-speaking world, from turns of phrase which people instinctively borrow to express their own feelings, to the grand state occasions which bolster their own...
How did Long John Silver Lose his Leg?
And Twenty-Six Other Mysteries of Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
How did Long John Silver Lose His Leg? is a wonderfully diverting tour through some of the best-loved classics of children's literature, addressing many of the unanswered questions that inspire intense speculation when the books are laid down. Could Bobbie's train really have stopped in time (The...
Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner
Coleridge and his Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
A fascinating new study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner illuminates the poet's deeply troubled personality and stormy personal life through a highly original study of his relationships. In her last published work the celebrated Coleridgean, Molly Lefebure, provides...
Pope Francis
His Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The election of Pope Francis in March 2013 marked an important moment within the Roman Catholic Church, a moment of continuities and discontinuities. On the one hand he is the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to be elected to lead his Church; on the other hand he provides continuity through...
by Roland Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
If it were once believed that the freedom of churches should be restricted to bring greater control to missions, Roland Allen sets out to overturn this conception. Warning against the danger of imposing greater limits on churches, the Author advocates that all members of the church, 'natives' and...
The Final Days of Jesus
The Thrill of Defeat, The Agony of Victory: A Classical Historian Explores Jesus's Arrest, Trial, and Execution
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The Final Days of Jesus is not only a book about religion, but also of Roman history. The events which took place during the Passover of 33 AD may have changed the course of the entire western world, but it is important to recognise that our understanding of them have been shaped by almost two thousand...
How the World Began
Sermons on the Creation Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The question of where we come from and where we are going is one of the elementary challenges of life. Perhaps it is THE question of life. Only when we get an answer to it do we learn who we are. With these striking words, Prof Helmut Thielicke begins this book about the most fundamental of all questions;...
by Eustace Percy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
John Knox has suffered in this century from that trick of the popular imagination that seizes on one aspect of a historical figure and elevates it into the whole man. At one time he was the foremost Scottish genius, but in our day there have been those who would have us believe that he was a ranter,...
by Alan Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Church of England and the First World War (first published in 1978) explores in depth the role of the church during the tragic circumstances of the First World War using biographies, newspapers, magazines, letters, poetry and other sources in a balanced evaluation.
The myth that the war...
Rock of Ages?
The Changing faces of the Christian God
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Far from being the immutable ‘Rock of Ages’ He is often assumed to be, the God of Christian history and tradition has had many different and often conflicting faces. Rock of Ages? opens with the emergence of the Biblical God from the pantheon of deities in bronze age Canaan, and culminates in...
Romans
A New Covenant Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
A helpfully concise commentary on Paul's letter to the early Christians in Rome, which the Apostle wrote just a few years before the outbreak of Nero's persecution. Keener examines each paragraph for its function in the letter as a whole, helping the reader follow Paul's argument. Where relevant,...