Alan Spence: 11 books

Book cover of Its Colours They Are Fine
by Alan Spence
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018

A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence’s celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of change. From childhood Christmases in small tenement flats and games played on scrubland, to Orange Walks...
Book cover of Clear Light
by Alan Spence
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012

Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit. Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships, breakthroughs and frustrations of the world of the momentary. Simple in form, these haiku request a fresh...
Book cover of Glasgow Zen
by Alan Spence
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

A superb new collection of haiku and other short poetic forms on the theme of Glasgow – its people, landscape, culture. As always, Spence is uniquely illuminating, witty and delightful. Incorporating some of the poems which appeared decades ago in the much sought-after collection of the same title, Glasgow Zen includes mostly new material from this highly popular and exquisite poet.
Book cover of The Pure Land
by Alan Spence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

A “lively and epic . . . thoughtful and vivid” historical novel based on the true story that inspired Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon (Publishers Weekly). The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a gutsy eighteen-year-old in Aberdeen who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes...
Book cover of Seasons Of The Heart
by Alan Spence
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012

This is Spence's first book of poetry since "Glasgow Zen". In this collection he evokes the essence of the seasons with this cycle of haiku.
Book cover of Night Boat
by Alan Spence
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is not the first time he has seen hell. Hakuin's quest...
Book cover of Le monde flottant
by Alan Spence
Language: French
Release Date: September 14, 2017

Un Écossais au pays du soleil levant 1858. Tom Glover, 15 ans, est courtier maritime à Aberdeen, lorsqu'on lui propose le poste de contremaître du comptoir de Nagasaki. Sans trop hésiter, il quitte son Écosse natale pour tenter sa chance en Orient. Prêt à relever tous les défis, il se lance...
Book cover of Love Hurts: The Heart of the Christian Story

Love Hurts: The Heart of the Christian Story

The Heart of the Christian Story

by Alan J Spence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

This book offers a fresh outline of the Christian story shaped by the idea of God's love as it is described in the New Testament. Love Hurts is a fresh and compact summary of the central themes of the Christian message. Journeying through the Bible's rich and diverse world of ideas and stories,...
Book cover of Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed
by Rev Dr Alan J. Spence
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015

Today Christology is of concern to both New Testament scholars and theologians alike and continues to provoke debate within the Church. Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed examines the key debates and defining moments in the early Church and the Reformation. After a brief introduction providing...
Book cover of Who Has Bewitched You? A Study in Galatians
by Alan J Spence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

A study of Paul's letter to the Galatians as a way to understanding the nature of the gospel, justification by faith, the law, the Holy Spirit, Christian freedom, being one with Christ, and the challenges those truths faced in Paul's day, at certain key stages in the history of the Church, and today....
Book cover of Incarnation and Inspiration

Incarnation and Inspiration

John Owen and the Coherence of Christology

by Rev Dr Alan J. Spence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007

Through engagement with the historical debate Incarnation and Inspiration offers a systematic exposition of the person of Jesus that brings together dissonant aspects of the tradition. It serves as an introduction to the theology to John Owen, the most able of the Puritan theologians and provides...
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