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St. Edith Stein’s Aesthetic by Elizabeth A. Mitchell
A JEWISH convert, the philosopher Edith Stein became a Carmelite, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. She died in Auschwitz and was declared a saint and martyr, recalled in her last days as a “living Pietà”. Her aesthetic…
Churches of Hertfordshire by David Gouldstone
Temperance, with downcast eyes, wearing armour and carrying two water pitchers, is one of the four female figures supporting the black marble slab with the effigy of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (d.1612), in the Cecil…
Understanding and countering spiritual abuse in faith communities by Tom Wilson
THE author of Safer Faiths, Safer Followers, Tom Wilson, has spent the past ten years as Director of St Philip’s Centre, Leicester. Founded in 2006, the centre’s work focuses on the contribution of Christianity to wider…
Knowing and loving in spirit and truth, edited by George Westhaver and Jonathan Price
THIS book invites us to meditate on the presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church. It is a collection of papers from theologians and leaders of churches, including Roman Catholics, Orthodox, and Anglicans, from…
Britain between the Wars by Alwyn Turner
THE prevalence of powerful and idiosyncratic world leaders in the present day is having an effect on the past. History faculties report a renewed interest in the “great men” approach to the subject, i.e. the thesis that…
An introduction to the philosophy of Richard Swinburne by Joshua R. Sijuwade
AS AN example of devoted advocacy on behalf of one of Christianity’s most prolific and systematic apologists, Joshua Sijuwade’s comprehensive introduction to the writings of Richard Swinburne is remarkable. Sijuwade not only…
The real women behind the myths that shaped Europe by Janina Ramirez
THE title of this book by the historian Janina Ramirez concisely sets out its underlying thesis. The author realised that medieval figures, both real and mythical, had been used in the construction of historical-political…
End or beginning? by Mary Daly, edited by Meg Stapleton Smith
THIS is a many-layered book, and so, as with an archaeological dig, the reader needs to engage both with process and content. At its heart lies an original manuscript, discarded incomplete and abandoned by the celebrated…
Navigating Christian faith, conscience and matters LGBTQ+ by James Alison
RECENT controversies over sexuality and gender identity have been made all the more frustrating and tedious by having to hear the same arguments on both sides repeated over and over again.In this respect, James Alison, an…
Power with purpose by James Macintyre
CURRENT events have overtaken this biography. Nowhere does Jeffrey Epstein get a mention. With hindsight, Gordon Brown has now admitted he should never have brought Peter Mandelson (with whom, James Macintyre indicates, Brown…
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