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This word for word record of a seminar in the University of California has been recognized by many reviewers as the easiest approach to Paul Tillich's often complex thought.

'Among historians of the Early Church in Europe today, none surpasses Professor Cullmann, wrote Professor F. F. Bruce in a review of this book, adding: 'this volume of studies is assured of wide and eager acceptance.' A reviewer from a quite different religious background, Father Gervase Mathew, O.P., noted that these essays are 'marked by three rare qualities: strong sanity, exact scholarship and Christian charity'. 'All are written with the author's customary distinction, clarity and orderliness, ' said an Anglican, Canon Montefiore, about this 'fine collection of brilliant essays'. The Early Church was first published in English in 1956. For this edition five of the chapters (2-6) have been selected as being of special importance, but the original pagination has been retained for the convenience of scholars. This arrangement, suggested by the volume's editor Dr A.J.B. Higgins, has been approved by Dr Cullmann

'Maurice Wiles shows that it doesn't require a vast tome to present a penetrating challenge to traditional doctrinal positions... This book is important. It deserves to be read carefully and its challenge profoundly considered' (David Pailin in The Expository Times).

A brief and accessible commentary on the Fourth Gospel.

John Heywood Thomas' outlines and evaluates the work of Paul Tillich who is one of the most important Protestant theologians of the twentieth century.

Intended for the clergy as well as academics and students to provide guidance in reading the Bible under the rule of faith, this title aims to recover classical theological commentary for the 21st century. It demonstrates the intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible.

Seeks to address the contemporary crisis of theology, exploring the possible future for an academic discipline that is rooted in the life and teaching of the Christian church, in a situation of intellectual pluralism. Argues for a commitment to dialogue.

For all those who have been trained of influenced by the Community of the Resurrection or who have any association with it, this book will be essential reading. For others it will provide a fascinating picture of developments and changes within an important part of Anglicanism and a thought-provoking account of God's remarkable ways with men.

Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Küng, Gregory Baum and Edward Schillebeeckx, and the editors of the review belong to the international "who's who" in the world of contemporary theology.

A dictionary with a diverse array of perspectives offering a quick introduction to differing themes, academics and clergy.

Provides liturgies which are animal-friendly and animal-inclusive. Includes services of celebration for animal companionship, services for animal welfare, healing liturgies, eucharistic prayers and animal burial services.

Classic work of ecclesiastical history, exercising original and independent judgement. Volume II also available.

This book based on public lectures provides an accessible introduction to the work of one of Europe's great theologians. Moltmann looks towards a future in which God will restore everything; this is the great hope which strengthens our little hopes.

The first volume of his systematic theology.

This book collects together samples from the writings of key Pentecostals and charismatics going back about 100 years and, over a range of issues and practices, shows how they vary and how they have developed historically.

This second edition has been revised and updated where necessary, and three new chapters have been added, on 'Eucharistic Sacrifice', 'Confession and Absolution', and 'Rest and Restlessness in Christian Spirituality'.

Dr Jeremias argues that the historical truth can be detected beneath the traditions preserved in the New Testament about the Last Supper. It was a climax of a series of Messianic meals, this time a passover meal. Jesus himself abstained but at it the disciples received a share in the atoning power of their Lord's sufferings.

The eucharist is central to the life of the churches, but not in the forms in which it is so widely celebrated today. What began with sacrifice for the liberation of others has long been a means of domesticating believers. Such is the passionate argument of Fr Balasuriya, a Roman Catholic priest writing from his native Sri Lanka.

A book which must rank among the significant examinations of the subject not only for New Testament studies, but in the current ecumenical debate.

Features contributors who have been asked to re-read the book that inspired them the most at the outset of their career, or earlier, and then describe what that book offers them, and how the book and the reader have changed - be it theologically, culturally, politically, personally or professionally - since that first inspiring read.

Ind response to the interest aroused in the west by eastern religions, this book offers readers with little knowledge of hinduism the essential keys for understanding it.

An international journal of theology; a catholic journal in the widest sense: rooted in Roman Catholicism yet open to other Christian traditions and the worlds faiths. Promotes discussion in the spirit of Vatican II. Annual subscriptions available.

Reveals how the divorce of divine perfection from human perfection undergirds the divorce of theology and philosophy. This work shows how these discourses were originally joined by the Church Fathers, to how they were separated in the Middle Ages and modern Anglicanism, to how they can be rejoined.

The second of Don Cupitt's Everyday Speech books, which introduce a new empirical way of doing theology - by examining ordinary language for evidence of our current religious outlook . This book studies our use of the terms It and It All.

Plato's "The Republic" is arguably the most important work. It is a philosophical masterpiece containing acute political theory as well as being great literature, and as such is not easily understood on first acquaintance. Part of "SCM Briefly" series, this title seeks to serve as a support resource for students. It summarises the original text.

An international journal of theology; a catholic journal in the widest sense: rooted in Roman Catholicism yet open to other Christian traditions and the world's faiths. Promotes discussion in the spirit of Vatican II. Annual subscriptions available.

This is the second part of a three-volume history of Christianity in England from Roman times to the Reformation. It covers the period from the Norman Conquest to the death of John Wycliff.