Lutterworth Press: 54 books
Masters of their Craft
The Art, Architecture and Garden Design of the Nesfields
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In this informative and charming volume, Shirley Evans explores the lives of two of the most prominent designers of the nineteenth century; designers who have left their distinctive mark on buildings and gardens throughout the British Isles. William Andrews Nesfield and Eden Nesfield, father and son,...
by Helmut Thielicke, John W. Doberstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In his introductory essay to this selection from the writing and preaching of C.H. Spurgeon, Helmut Thielicke expresses his surprise and delight at his discovery of the great Victorian preacher. He draws out those qualities which made Spurgeon one of the most influential ministers of his day, and...
Mere Education
C.S. Lewis as Ethical teacher for our Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The word 'mere' is used in the title of this book in its Middle English sense as an adjective 'nothing less than, complete'. This book is about schooling for a fair and vibrant society; it is about an education of hope, education that completes a person.
In 'The Magician's Nephew' (1955), the...
Voice of Nonconformity
William Robertson Nicoll and the British Weekly
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
A study of William Robertson Nicoll, a non-conformist individual who had considerable influence in the late 19th Century. Originally a minister, he was considered a great leader and was also a theological conservative, and therefore committed to maintaining the orthodox stance of the Christian Churches,...
by Roland Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
First published in 1913, Missionary Principles is a classic textbook by genre, but in its controversial evaluation of the Church's missionary theories, it is by no means wholly traditional. At the centre of this discursive study, Allen asserts the distinction which needs to be made in missionary aims...
Heresies and Heretics
Memories from the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
In this enjoyably iconoclastic book, George Watson discusses some of the great heresies of the twentieth century, and the cultural heretics who espoused them, often with surprising results. Watson provides us with examples of 'true', original heretics, from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who asserted that...
Man in God's World
The Faith and Courage to Live - or Die
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
These chapters were first written and spoken in the face of death - when the only thing that was of any help at all was the Gospel itself. Helmut Thielicke faces the people of today with his own basic questions and offers the Christian faith as a vital answer. Delivered during World War II when one...
The Biblical Cosmos
A Pilgrim's Guide to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Bible.
When we read Scripture we often imagine that the world inhabited by the Bible's characters was much the same as our own. We would be wrong. The biblical world is an ancient world with a flat earth that stands at the center of the cosmos,...
Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale
Sport and Exercise in Eighteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale challenges the popular image of Samuel Johnson as a man who favoured energetic discussion over physical exercise, enthroned in an armchair peering short-sightedly at a book. Thanks to the diarist and author Hester Thrale we have many anecdotes that connect Dr...
by Helmut Thielicke, John W. Doberstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
When Dr Thielicke writes about Good Friday or Easter or Pentecost, he sees deeply into the mystery, despair and confusion of life today and speaks a truly prophetic message to today's Christians. As he meditates on Christmas, the reader will understand anew how light shines in the darkness of this...
Revelation
A New Covenant Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Revelation is a book that many Christians find confusing due to the foreign nature of its apocalyptic imagery. It is a book that has prompted endless discussions about the “end times” with theological divisions forming around epicenters such as the rapture and the millennium. In this book, award...
Life Can Begin Again
Sermons on the Sermon on the Mount
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Christians have always turned to the Sermon on the Mount for inspiration. In Life Can Begin Again, Helmut Thielicke, himself one of the great preachers of the 20th Century, comes to grips with what is often seen as a collection of lovely, but impossible ideals. Thielicke makes it clear that the Sermon...
by Palmer, Michael
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Arguing that a 'new atheism', driven largely by Darwinian objections to God's existence, has limited debate to a scientific framework, The Atheist's Primer reinstates the importance of philosophy in the debate about God's existence and in so doing recovers the distinguished philosophical tradition...
The Waiting Father
Sermons on the Parables of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
A collection of sermons offering deep insights into the spiritual message of Jesus’s fifteen major parables by Helmut Thielicke, the great German preacher and theologian. These were originally preached in Michaelskirche, Hamburg, in the mid-1950s.
Thielicke approaches the parables in novel ways....