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  • Desire and Mental Health in Christianity and the Arts

    by David Torevell ...
    Series series Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
    This book considers the connection between the world of mental health in the twenty-first century and the traditional concept of desire in Christianity and the Arts. It draws parallels between the desire for rest from anxiety among mental health sufferers with the longing for peace and happiness in Religion and the Arts. The author presents Biblical, philosophical and theological insights ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown

    Another Place

    by David Torevell ...
    Contemporary culture is rediscovering the importance of beauty for both social transformation and personal happiness. Theologians have sought, in their varied ways, to demonstrate how God's beauty is associated with notions of truth and goodness. This book breaks new ground by suggesting that liturgy is the means par excellence by which an experience of beauty is communicated. Drawing from both ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Exploring Catholic Faith in Shakespearean Drama

    Towards a Philosophy of Education

    by David Torevell, Brandon Schneeberger, Luke Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Education
    This pioneering study investigates the connection between Shakespeare and Catholic education. Its authors contend that Shakespeare’s plays explore Catholic understandings of human life in ways that remain relevant for Catholic educational institutions today.Through chapters focusing on ethical and existential themes – love, desire, the body, marriage, virginity, evil, finitude, jealousy, and lies ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Training the Body

    Perspectives from Religion, Physical Culture and Sport

    Edited by David Torevell, Clive Palmer, Paul Rowan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This is the first book to examine the body in training in the context of religion, sport and wider physical culture, offering important insight into the performative, social, cultural and gendered aspects of somatic discipline and exercise.The book presents a series of fascinating thematic and case-study led chapters from around the world, examining topics including the martial discipline and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger

    by Michael Paul Gallagher ...
    In Faith Maps a theologian of great flair and originality ‘translates’ the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith and contemporary life and culture. The result is both a delightful introduction to theology and religion for students and general readers and a thought-provoking improvisation on familiar themes that will delight specialists.Gallagher devotes a ... Read more

    $9.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Holy Living

    The Christian Tradition for Today

    by The Rt Hon Rowan Williams ...
    Rowan Williams writes accessibly and for the general reader on belief, Christianity and the place of religion today.Apart from being a scholar and theologian, Rowan Williams has also demonstrated a rare gift for speaking and writing plainly and clearly about essentials of the Christian faith. In the chapters of this book he writes with profound perception about the life of holiness to which we are ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Looking East in Winter

    Contemporary Thought and the Eastern Christian Tradition

    by The Rt Hon Rowan Williams ...
    In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world.In this new book, Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and a noted scholar of Eastern Christianity, introduces us to some aspects and personalities of the Orthodox Christian world, from the desert contemplatives of the fourth century to philosophers, novelists and activists of the modern era, that suggest ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism

    Edited by Amy Hollywood, Patricia Z. Beckman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The book is thematically organized in terms of the central contexts, practices and concepts associated with the mystical life in early, medieval and early modern Christianity. This book looks beyond the term ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration

    Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation

    by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ...
    Series series Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
    Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues from the Orthodox point of view, this volume (with contributions from many of the most influential ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • God and the Universe of Faiths

    by John Hick ...
    Hick addresses many of the major issues posing challenges to contemporary Christian belief, and offers his much-debated proposal for a Copernican revolution in our understanding of Christianity and the wider religious life of humanity. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality

    Edited by Arthur Holder ...
    The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality is a comprehensive single-volume introduction to Christian spirituality, and represents the most significant recent developments in the field.Offers a thoroughly interdisciplinary, broadly ecumenical, and representative overview of the most significant recent developments in the fieldComprises essays combining rigorous academic scholarship with ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • A Soul-Centered Life

    Exploring an Animated Spirituality

    by Michael Demkovich OP ...
    People today are searching for meaning and purpose. They know that something is missing in their lives and long to fill this void. Many books on spirituality attempt to fill this need, and the approaches are nearly as numerous as the searchers themselves. Such a widespread desire in the human heart speaks to the spiritual hunger at the core of each one of us. It is this hunger of both the head and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD