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Theological Reflection

Theological reflection - including books on leading theologians, theology in psychotherapy and the Trinity.

Theological Reflection
Message of St. Seraphim

Message of St. Seraphim

Irina Gorainov
Foreword By Donald Allchin This relatively recent Russian saint was born Prokhor Mochnin in 1759 in Kursk, on the northernmost Russian steppes. At 19, he entered a remote monastery and was given the name Seraphim (Hebrew for...

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£5.00

Unicorn

Unicorn

Meditations on the Love of God

Harry Galbraith Miller
Meditations on the love of God, starting from some scriptural texts and inspired by medieval tapestries, interwoven with consideration of the mythical unicorn and the Church’s calendar.

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£1.50

Pondering, Praying, Preaching

Pondering, Praying, Preaching

Romans 8

Bonnie Thurston

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£6.00

Love Unknown

Love Unknown

Meditations on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus

John Barton
The Christian faith, hinging as it does upon the events of Good Friday and Easter Day, has always raised baffling questions for those who reflect upon it. Human life is unpredictable—full of sorrows that no one can foresee and of joys that come...

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£7.50

Gift of Theology

Gift of Theology

The Trinitarian Vision of Ann Griffiths and Elizabeth of Dijon

A. M. Allchin
Ann Griffiths, the 19th century Welsh religious poet who grew up in the Methodist tradition, and Elizabeth of Dijon, a French Carmelite nun who lived a century later, could hardly have been further apart in terms of their life...

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£3.00

Lazarus, Come Out

Lazarus, Come Out

Bonnie Thurston
Set like a play with three acts and seven scenes, each focusing on a dramatis personae. It uses traditional Orthodox theology of the icon of the raising of Lazarus to illumine the text.

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£7.50

I Have Called You Friends

I Have Called You Friends

Suggestions for the spiritual life based on the farewell discourses of Jesus

Reinhard Körner, ocd, Sr Mary Avis, slg
A person’s final words command extra-special attention and in this short yet replete text, the messages contained in Jesus’ final words to his disciples are explored for their significance today. The final discourses, as they are called, fill...

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£4.50

Pondering, Praying, Preaching

Pondering, Praying, Preaching

Bonnie Thurston
In a series of reflections on this pivotal chapter of the Letter to the Romans, the author shares her extensive theological scholarship. Included are suggestions for using the text in study groups or for preaching.

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£6.00

Unknowing & Astonishment

Unknowing & Astonishment

Christopher Scott
Drawing on the traditional theology of the Eastern Churches, and linking this teaching closely with the liturgy, the cataphatic tradition of affirmation is held in tension with the apophatic tradition of negation, the way of unknowing.

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£12.99

Jesus the Undistorted Image of God

Jesus the Undistorted Image of God

John Townroe
The Eastern Orthodox description of Jesus as ‘the undistorted image of God’ is the author’s favourite statement of belief about Jesus in relation to God and of the mysterious attractiveness of Jesus who draws everyone without distinction to God.

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£5.50

Our Deepest Desire

Our Deepest Desire

Prayer, Fasting & Almsgiving in the Writings of Augustine of Hipp.

Sister Susan SLG
This book presents the teaching of St Augustine of Hippo on prayer, fasting and almsgiving in historical and modern contexts, in a way that is accessible for any reader, for use not only during Lent, but for any time for the year as a reflective...

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£6.00

TIME

TIME

Dumitru Staniloae, Kallistos Ware
This book brings together essays by two outstanding Orthodox theologians: Dumitru Staniloae’s, ‘Eternity and Time’, a talk given to the Sisters of the Love of God in 1971, was expanded in the first volume of his Teologia dogmatica ortodoxa (3 vols.,...

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Lent with George Herbert

Lent with George Herbert

Tony Dickinson
The poetry of George Herbert has inspired the faith of countless Christians over the centuries. In this book Tony Dickinson takes eight of the poems from The Temple (1633), that tackle the themes of frailty and forgiveness, as the inspiration for a...

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£6.00

Sacrifice and Spirit

Sacrifice and Spirit

Michael Ramsey
Sacrifice and Spirit contains the transcripts of two talks on major New Testament themes given by Michael Ramsey. The first is on the Christian concept of sacrifice - a notion rooted in rather gruesome Old Testament custom but now often overlaid...

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£2.00

Saint John Cassian on Prayer

Saint John Cassian on Prayer

John Cassian, A.M.C. Casiday
The fourth century European saint, John Cassian, has been honoured for over 1600 years by the universal church as one of the greatest of early monastic writers. His two great works, the Institutes and the Conferences, set out a vision for western...

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Hymns of St.Ephrem the Syrian

Hymns of St.Ephrem the Syrian

Mary Hansbury
St Ephrem the Syrian who lived in the 4th century is a great visionary poet and spiritual teacher of the earliest Christian centuries. A lyrical delight in the beautiful things of creation, rich theological symbolism, striking and simple imagery...

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£5.50

Augustine Baker

Augustine Baker

Frontiers of the Spirit

Victor Alexande de Waal
David Augustine Baker (1575-1641), Welshman, lawyer, Benedictine monk and priest, was an individualist who lived in a number of boundary situations - geographical, linguistic, cultural, religious - and often crossed frontiers. He encouraged...

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£4.00

Suffering

Suffering

Why All This Suffering? What Do I Do About It?

Reinhard Korner, Sister Avis Mary
Throughout history, the question has been asked, ‘Why does God allow suffering?’ No-one has found a satisfactory answer, but what complicates the question is the widespread notion that God has two sides – one loving and forgiving,...

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£3.00

Ann Griffiths and Her Writings

Ann Griffiths and Her Writings

Llewellyn Cumings
Ann Griffiths (1776-1805) is regarded as the greatest female poet who wrote in Welsh, and one of the greatest of hymn writers. Her Christian journey began at the local parish church, but she later sought spiritual enlightenment among the Methodists....

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£5.00

Prayers of Jacob of Serugh

Prayers of Jacob of Serugh

Mary Hansbury
Jacob of Serugh (451–521) is one of the great poets of the early Syriac tradition. His meditations, prefaces to his homilies, focus us on the centrality of divine love in the context of scripture. These are some of the richest, theologically...

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£8.00

Shem`on the Graceful

Shem`on the Graceful

Mary Hansbury
The late seventh century in the Syrian Church saw the flourishing of several noted monastic writers, amongst them Shem`on, a monk of an abbey in south-west Iran. Few of his writings remain, but this homily has been preserved as a model of...

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£5.00

Poet of the Word

Poet of the Word

Re-reading Scripture with Ephraem the Syrian

Aelred Partridge
St Ephraem’s layered approach to interpreting Scripture formed a tapestry of spiritual wisdom. This essay examines the principles that guided Ephraem’s biblical interpretation and reveals why he is indeed a Poet of the Word.

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£6.50

Letters of Saint Antony the Great

Letters of Saint Antony the Great

Derwas Chitty
The late Derwas J. Chitty translated into English seven letters addressed by Saint Antony the Solitary to his disciples. They centre our attention on those things which are essential in the spiritual life. As the reader ponders the text the dominant...

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£6.00

Reflections of Abba Zosimas

Reflections of Abba Zosimas

Monk of the Palestinian Desert 3rd Edn

John Chryssavgis
A presentation of the teaching and example of Abba Zosimas, a sixth-century Palestinian hermit, based in obedience to the gospel and love of neighbour.

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£5.00

The Victory of the Cross

The Victory of the Cross

Poetry by the Sisters of the Love of God

Dumitru Staniloae
The Cross is the symbol of victorious love because of Christ’s acceptance of it as the way to life transfigured through suffering.

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£5.50

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury

Teacher of Prayer

Benedicta Ward SLG
For those who study St Anselm, his prayers provide an intimate personal introduction to his thinking and his spirituality. For Anselm, who never considered himself a teacher of prayer, his prayers were simply personal devotions that he occasionally...

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£6.00

Prayer and Holiness

Prayer and Holiness

2nd Edition

Dumitru Staniloae
In these five essays Fr Staniloae gives us the essentials of his teaching on prayer. They are the fruit not only of personal experience and long familiarity with the hesychast writings of Orthodox monasticism, but also of the spiritual tradition of...

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£6.00

Bernard & Abelard

Bernard & Abelard

Sister Edmee SLG
This essay examines the theology of, and relationship between, the saintly Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), customarily considered a traditionalist, and the arrogant, brilliant and controversial philosopher Peter Abelard (1079–1142), disruptive and...

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£8.00

Facing Depression

Facing Depression

Gonville ffrench-Beytagh

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£3.00

Out of the Depths

Out of the Depths

Encountering Depression

Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, Wendy Pannell Robinson
This candid, personal account of depression, and recovery from ‘out of the depths’, has helped many to come to terms with their own experiences, or provide support to other sufferers. By continuing to say the Psalms and read the Bible, through force...

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£4.00

Towards a Theology of Psychotherapy

Towards a Theology of Psychotherapy

The Spirituality of Wendy Robinson

Andrew Louth
Wendy Robinson (1934–2013) was a trained psychotherapist who became a member of the Russian Orthodox Church in England in 1980. To be able to combine these two vocations was, for her, to discover herself. She practised psychotherapy both with...

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£8.00

Cosmos, Crisis and Christ

Cosmos, Crisis and Christ

Essays of Wendy Robinson

Andrew Louth
Wendy Robinson’s work was primarily interpersonal and in retreat talks or lectures where she could engage with her audience directly; many of the essays here are transcriptions of those talks. Even ten years after her death, her theology and her...

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£14.00

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