Spck imprint: 330 books
by Miranda Threlfall-Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This book combines theological reflection on key issues in chaplaincy with a collection of stories from those engaged in chaplaincy in a wide variety of contexts. The essays cover issues, skills and tensions - discussing what chaplaincy is and how to do it.
What Clergy Do
Especially when it looks like nothing
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Clergy have a pivotal role in creating and nurturing church communities in which all people can grow up into Christ. This book explores the nature of that role by considering key similarities with the essential but often conflicting demands of motherhood. Like mothers, clergy need to preserve and...
Love Is His Meaning
Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Jesus’ teaching has changed the world. Yet his sayings can often seem cryptic and hard to understand.
In Love Is His Meaning, Keith Ward explores the various figures of speech and images that Jesus used, and finds they are all ways of expressing and evoking the self-giving love of God, manifested...
by Edited by Rima Devereaux
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Spend a month in the company of St Augustine, with sixty-two reflections to enrich your mornings and evenings.
‘[The Confessions] has a perennial power to speak, even though written virtually sixteen centuries ago.’ - Henry Chadwick, translator of The Confessions (Oxford World’s Classics)
Praise...
The Essential Trinity
New Testament Foundations And Practical Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The Trinity is foundational to Christian theology, with immense relevance for practical living. This volume offers trinitarian readings of each New Testament corpus and focuses on the importance of the doctrine for Christian life and ministry.
God Created Humanism
The Christian basis of secular values
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Gloriously maddening though this book will be to those who want humanism to have no connection to religion whatever, its purpose is both generous and hopeful: to demonstrate, to both Christians and post-Christians alike, how much better we understand each other than we think we do. - Francis Spufford...
The Rule of Taizé
In French and English
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
For more than fifty years, the international ecumenical community at Taizé has had an enduring and unparalleled attraction for young adults, whether Christian or not. Its roots go back to wartime France, when a young man, who was to become Brother Roger, settled in the impoverished and largely abandoned...
Celebrating the Reformation
Its Legacy And Continuing Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Too often, the Reformers and their doctrines have been caricatured, misrepresented or misappropriated in the service of agendas they would never have recognized, let alone endorsed. Happily, there has been a great deal of fine scholarship in recent years that has exploded some of these myths, but...
Brand New Church
The Church and the postmodern condition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Brand New Church? aims to make sense of what 'postmodern' actually looks and feels like in real life, and to ask what this means for the church. Over the past few years, Graeme Fancourt has travelled around the UK and USA consulting with a wide range of church leaders, including Sue Wallace, who founded...
The Power of Pictures in Christian Thought
The Use and Abuse of Images in the Bible and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Part One considers key philosophical and aesthetic evaluations of literary images and symbols. The power of pictures is widely appreciated, as in the adage 'a picture is worth a thousand words'. Sometimes Christian discourse can be smothered by endless prose, which demands much inferential reasoning....
by The Rt Revd Stephen Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The book explores the reality of grief from different perspectives and provides some insightful help primarily to those trying to support a colleague, friend or family member who is being overwhelmed by their primal grief, Though the book will contain important and practical material for those who...
The Second Intercessions Handbook (reissue)
More Creative Ideas for Public and Private Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Over 12,000 copies of this book have sold since publication in 2004. Containing completely new material, this user-friendly sequel to the bestselling Intercessions Handbook is for individuals and groups involved in the vital task of leading prayers in public worship. Easy to adapt to particular situations...
by The Revd Dr Malcolm Patten
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Over the last 60 years the ethnic diversity of the western world has changed dramatically as a result of successive waves of immigration. The impact of this on the church is evident in the growing number of congregations that are now multicultural to a greater or lesser extent. This presents challenges...
Windows on a Hidden World
Exploring the Advent landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
As a priest, married to a vicar, with four young children, Jane Maycock is all too familiar with the struggle not to be engulfed by busyness in the run-up to Christmas. As a result, the reflections she has written for this lovely book are engagingly infused with real-life happenings, even as they...