Bloomsbury Continuum imprint: 108 books
by Father Thomas Keating, Lucette Verboven, Abbot Joseph Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In these conversations with film maker and writer Lucette Verboven, Thomas Keating OCSO – bestselling author, Trappist monk and founder of the Centering Prayer movement – looks back on his long life and spiritual development. Following on from his previous books Invitation to Love, Open Mind,...
Confession
The Healing of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Confession: The Healing of the Soul is not just about what is termed sacramental confession. Its frame of reference is much wider and includes discussion of those celebrated writers who wrote confessions – Augustine, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Foucault, Freud, Jung, John of the Cross and Wittgenstein....
by Harry Mount
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Planet-brained, snortingly ambitious and given to comic one-liners that the public and press take equal delight in, Boris Johnson is the most talked-about politician in Britain. This collection of his wit and wisdom, edited and introduced by eminent journalist Harry Mount, covers his background, education,...
Aquinas at Prayer
The Bible, Mysticism and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas's life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten. Today Aquinas is almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding scholastic philosopher and theologian. But what is little known is that Aquinas was, first and last,...
Divine Discontent
The Prophetic Voice of Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Thomas Merton continues to speak with a prophetic voice. The 2015 centenary of his birth provides an opportunity to reconsider both the international reputation and the relevance in today's world of a man who still intrigues, perplexes and challenges - as a Trappist monk, as a writer, as a contemplative,...
Out of the Shadows
Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
'Lisbon and Portugal's best days are behind them' is a common theme put forward by writers who focus their attention on the golden era of Portuguese discoveries, the Empire and the role of Lisbon as a major Atlantic power. Neill Lochery's book demonstrates that Portugal is not suffering from such...
The Great Deception
The Secret History of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Now published with a new preface explaining why The Great Deception is of the utmost importance today as it was when it was first published and to coincide with Great Britain's EU referendum in 2016, this book suggests that the United States of Europe and its edict of 'ever closer union' have been...
Newcomers' Lives
The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner, Joseph Conrad, Nancy Astor, C.L.R. James and Lucian Freud is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this country have made on our national culture and character. Indeed, these people have been crucial to the development of recent...
Scared to Death
From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making "scares" - from mad cow disease to SARS -- which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book is the first to tell the inside story of each of the major...
Take the Plunge
Living Baptism and Confirmation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Timothy Radcliffe holds a unique position in the modern Catholic Church. As Master of the Dominican Order in Rome for nine years, he held one of the most senior and influential appointments the Catholic Church has on offer. But he is a member of an Order of Preachers and is thus truly apostolic. The...
Teresa of Avila
Doctor of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
In this strikingly original book, published to mark the fifth centenary of Teresa of Avila's birth, Dr Peter Tyler takes the writings of the sixteenth-century Spanish reformer and brings them into dialogue with some of the foremost thinkers who have shaped our contemporary notion of self. Starting...
Choose Life
Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The addresses that Rowan Williams has given in Canterbury Cathedral for Christmas and Easter are small masterpieces of this kind. They constitute part of Rowan Williams' essential legacy to Christian believers.
With a new introduction by Dr Williams, this is the first time these pieces have appeared in print. Perfect reading material for Lent or Advent.
The Unknown Pope
Benedict XV (1914-1922) and the Pursuit of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Best known for his efforts to end World War I, Benedict XV was the first contemporary pope to assume the role peacemaker, a role that has persisted in the papacy since. Although Benedict's 1917 Peace Note was rejected by officials, he went on to help establish Save the Children and to lead European...
Prayers of Great Traditions
A Daily Office
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Forms of daily prayer have been used throughout Christian history, and every Christian tradition encourages its adherents to practise regular personal prayer, calling it variously the Daily Office, the Divine Hours, Forms of Prayer, the Quiet Time or, more simply 'daily devotions'.
This book...