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Prepare your heart for the joy of Christmas in the company of one of the best-loved poets in the English language

A beautifully presented anthology of quotes from Queen Elizabeth II, artworks of the life of Christ, and words of wisdom from the Gospels, commented on by former Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries

Iconic Tattoo. Iconic Tattoo follows Richard Harries wildly sucessful Awakening with yet another beautiful, funny and sad volume wher he visits a childhood friend, and ponders what humanity has done to our natural world.

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A timely, collaborative re-evaluation of Reinhold Niebuhr's work that reflects on his notable contribution to Christian social ethics, the Christian doctrine of humanity and the engagement of Christian thought with contemporary politics.

After a decade of performing sharply focused observational, protest and war poetry Richard has gathered together a collection of his best known work which is as fresh on the page as it is on the stage.'Richard writes sensitively and with heart about some difficult topics, the truest of poets.' Louise Beech, author of Maria in the Moon'Richard is an excellent performer so I was worried about his poems being in print, as part of his charm is his...

Hearing God in Poetry is a lovely Lent book for 2022 from Richard Harries, that reflects on how some of the best-loved poems in the English language communicate a sense of God's presence.

The evil of the holocaust demands a radical rethink of the traditional Christian understanding of Judaism. This does not mean jettisoning Christianity's deepest convictions in order to make it conform to Judaism. Rather, Richard Harries develops the work of recent Jewish scholarship to discernresonances between central Christian and Jewish beliefs. This thought-provoking book offers fresh approaches to contentious and sensitive issues. A key c...

Austin Farrer is often called the one genius the Church of England produced in the 20th Century. His innovative ideas crossed a host of theological disciplines.Assessing his continuing importance and introducing him to a new generation of readers, Austin Farrer for Today brings together a stellar collection of writers to re¿ect on Farrer's contribution to biblical theology, philosophy, language, doctrine, prayer and preaching.Chapters include:...

W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Elizabeth Jennings, C. S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Stevie Smith . . . These are some of the great poets and novelists whose struggles with faith find expression in their works, and who demonstrate the fascinatingly different forms that faith can take in different times and places. Richard Harries considers the work of twenty of these writers, painting vivid pictures of their lives and times. He also ...

The influential Christian intellectual Richard Harries considers the work of twenty authors in terms of how their Christian faith impacts on it, with insightful readings of T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, William Golding and many others.

A major new defence of Christianity which makes a point of asking the difficult questions about the kind of God who has created the world we now live in. *Also appeared in January Buyer's Notes*

Takes a looks at decision making in our lives. This book includes chapters that focus on the drivers of human life: sex, money, power and fame.

In recent centuries, with the notable exception of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Christian theology has failed to find a proper place for beauty. The Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, shows how a biblical faith can give a key place to beauty, and he argues for a distinctively Christian approach to art that is also sensitive to the spiritual dimension in all art.Originally published in 1993, Art and the Beauty of God was selected by Anthony Burgess ...

Life is at once wonderful and appalling, beautiful and horrific. How can we live with this contradiction? And how can we believe in a just and loving God in the face of all the evils of the world in which we have evolved?

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Is it ethical to manufacture designer babies or experiment on human embryos? Is abortion morally justifiable as well as legally acceptable? Do terminally ill people have the right to choose when to end their lives? Sinse the birth of the first baby through in vitro fertilization just over thirty years ago, scientific advances in this field have been startling. Developments associated with cloning, human-animal hybrids and pre-implantation gene...

Is the Church a box from which God has escaped? Are people finding spirituality and relating to God in ways that have nothing to do with the Church? Men and women today have strong values and beliefs about caring for animals and for the creation, about tolerance for others of different beliefs and customs, and about how we each may live mature and fulfilled lives. They often feel that the Church's moral teaching does not come up to their stand...