Summer Sale: Textbooks

Christian Youth Work in Theory and Practice

A Handbook

Churches today face unique challenges as they seek to help young people engage with the Christian faith and youth workers, whether employed or volunteer, play a key role in supporting this process. This book provides a comprehensive overview of...

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£25.00

£5.00

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£25.00

Companion to the Old Testament

Introduction, Interpretation, Application

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Hywel Clifford, Douglas Earl, Ryan P. O'Dowd

Have you ever wondered what the Old Testament is about and what it is for? Companion to the Old Testament answers that question with guidance and enrichment for both first-time and experienced readers of the Old Testament, the first part of the...

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£25.00

£10.00

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£25.00

Controversies in Interreligious Dialogue and the Theology of Religions

Paul Hedges

Provides a guide and critical extension to contemporary controversies in the theology of religions and interfaith dialogue.

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£30.00

£6.00

Through Us,with Us,in Us

Relational Theologies in the Twenty-first Century

Lisa Isherwood and Elaine Bellchambers, Elaine Bellchambers

Relational theologies, such as feminist theology, ecotheology and liberation theologies of various kinds, turn our traditional starting point for theology on its head. They ask what it is that we experience. This book aims to explore the concept of...

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£25.00

£6.00

Advancing Practical Theology

Critical Discipleship for Disturbing Times

Eric Stoddart

Practical theology as a discipline does not at present fulfil its radical potential. Eric Stoddart addresses some directions that the discipline needs to take in order to respond adequately to changing social, ecclesial and global...

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£25.00

Trans/Formations

Marcella Althaus Reid, Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood, Lisa Isherwood

Highlights a range of trans lived experience [transgendered and transsexual]. This book offers theological reflection on these experiences, creates challenging theology from this experiential base, and provides a resource for churches and theology...

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£25.00

£6.00

Controversies in Body Theology

Marcella Althaus Reid, Marcella Althaus-Reid, Lisa Isherwood

Controversies in Body Theology will be the third volume in SCM’s Controversies in Contextual Theology series, aimed at drilling down further into the arguments and discussions taking place amongst theologians within contextual theologies,...

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£19.99

£6.00

Controversies in Feminist Theologies

Marcella Althaus Reid, Marcella Althaus-Reid, Lisa Isherwood

Exposes the controversies within key areas of feminist theology eg Christology, ethics, prayer and the after life, the virgin Mary, hermeneutics, the body and to examine whether feminist theology is now bankrupt as both discourse and praxis. It is...

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£19.99

£6.00

Controversies in Political Theology

Development or Liberation?

Thia Cooper, Marcella Althaus-Reid, Lisa Isherwood

Addresses the question of whether Christians should be struggling towards development or liberation. This book explores the theologies of development and liberation, from their beginnings in the 1960s through their changes to the central arguments....

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£19.99

£6.00

A Conversation Waiting to Begin

the Churches and the Gay Controversy

Oliver O'Donovan

The debate about homosexuality in the Anglican Communion and the wider church, continues to be the subject of controversy and debate in the churches and in the media. A Conversation Waiting to Begin deals with this controversial issue.

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£14.99

£4.00

Controversies in Queer Theology

Susannah Cornwall, Lisa Isherwood

Queer theology is a significant new development and central to much current teaching and thinking about gender, sexuality and the body.

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£30.00

£6.00

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£16.25

Conversations with the New Testament

John Holdsworth

Conversations with the New Testament presents an innovative approach to introducing the study of the New Testament. It has a user-friendly narrative style, telling the story of various members of a Church Learning Group as they learn...

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£14.99

£7.00

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£8.13

Conversations with the Old Testament

John Holdsworth

The Learning Church series offers a range of brief and accessible introductions to the key themes of Christian discipleship and theology. Conversations with the Old Testament introduces major themes and critical issues of the Old Testament in a...

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Encountering the Bible

Andrew Village

What do Christians believe the Bible to be, and what are the consequences of these beliefs? For many people, tackling the Bible is rather like sorting the attic: lots of obscure and long forgotten paraphernalia, a certain amount of...

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£14.99

£7.00

God Matters

Peter Vardy, Charlotte Vardy

Perhaps human beings are animals, driven by the will to survive and reproduce, perhaps responsibility is a useful fiction and religion is the opium of the masses. Perhaps death is the end, life is ultimately meaningless, brutish and short. Perhaps...

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£10.99

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Listening for God's Call

Susan H. Jones

Listening for God's Call: Discipleship and Ministry provides a general introductory text for theological reflection on the call of God. It begins by exploring the idea of listening to the call of God, which is at the heart of the Christian...

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£14.99

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£8.13

Pastoral Supervision

Second Edition

Jane Leach, Michael Paterson

Pastoral Supervision is increasingly sought out by people working in ministry. It offers a safe space to reflect theologically and constructively on pastoral experience. Pastoral Supervision: A Handbook is the standard text for what is a...

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£25.00

Kingdom Learning

Experiential and Reflective Approaches to Christian Formation

David Heywood

David Heywood explains how churches can become learning communities in which people grow as disciples and find their place in a collaborative pattern of ministry.

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£21.99

£10.00

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£11.91

Paul

The Apostle's Life, Letters and Thought

E. P. Sanders

E. P. Sanders offers a comprehensive study of Paul's life and work, drawing on a lifetime of studying Christianity's most controversial apostle, a rabbi who became the apostle to the Gentiles

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£40.00

£15.00

Re-Imagining the Bible for Today

Anne Claar Thomasson-Rosingh, Sigrid Coenradie, Bert Dicou

This textbook seeks to reclaim the Bible for a Christianity that is open to society and keen on participating in conversation about major issues.

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£19.99

£8.00

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£19.99

The Bible and Literature

Alison Jack

The first textbook to engage with the crossover between the Bible and literature, covering all the key methods of literary criticism and presenting a truly inter-disciplinary approach.

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£30.00

£8.00

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£16.25

Black Theology

Anthony G. Reddie

An accessible introduction to Black Theology, helping readers understand the inherited legacy of 'race', ethnicity, difference and racism, as well as the diversity and vibrancy of this movement.

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£25.00

£8.00

Modern Church History

Tim Grass

A text book that provides an introduction to global Christianity from 1700 to the mid 20th century. It aims to help students understand the processes, movements and individuals who have contributed to making the contemporary Christian landscape the...

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£30.00

£8.00

Paul

Geoffrey Harris

Seeks to reconcile Paul the thinker and Paul the man of action. This book provides information about research and writing on Paul, and shows how Paul's early life held important strands of thought which informed his later theology.

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£25.00

£8.00

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£25.00

The Pentateuch

Walter J. Houston

The SCM Core Text The Pentateuch offers a comprehensive introduction to the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, for students with some background in Biblical Studies. The Pentateuch is the foundation document (Torah) of the religious...

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£30.00

£8.00

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£25.00

Pentecostalism

SCM Core Text

William K. Kay

Examines the background to the Pentecostal movement and describes the different elements of the movement found internationally. This title draws together historical, sociological and theological evaluations of the subject. It is suitable for...

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£30.00

£8.00

SCM Core Text: The Book of Revelation

Simon Woodman

This textbook identifies the sections of Revelation in a sensible and helpful way, as well as identifying the key theological themes with a view to their context and interpretation

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£25.00

£8.00

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£25.00

Sociology of Religion

Andrew Dawson

Andrew Dawson outlines how sociologists approach the subject of religion and introduces sociological research methods, before highlighting some of the key areas studied by sociology of religion such as the rise of fundamentalism, gender issues and...

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£25.00

£8.00

The Philosophy of Religion

Gwen Griffith-Dickson

This is the only textbook of its kind to offer the reader such a wide and inclusive overview of contemporary philosophical study of religions.

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£30.00

£8.00

Theological Ethics

Edward Dowler

The SCM Core Text: Theological Ethics is intended for those studying Christian ethics at upper undergraduate level. The book offers a discussion of Christian moral thought in a variety of key areas. Many discussions of ethics start by considering...

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£25.00

£8.00

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£12.45

SCM Core Text: New Testament

Richard Cooke

An undergraduate textbook for use on modules introducing the New Testament. It argues that the New Testament reflects four streams of apostolic tradition, reflected in the 4 gospels. It includes bibliographies at the end of each section to guide the...

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£30.00

£8.00

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£16.25

Theology and Sexuality

Susannah Cornwall

'Theology and Sexuality' provides a clear overview of the theological debate surrounding sexuality as broadly understood. It gives an outline of the major themes surrounding sexuality in theological perspective, focusing on key thinkers, concepts...

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£25.00

£8.00

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£25.00

SCM Core Text: Christianity and Science

John D. Weaver

Offers an introduction to the debate between the relative truth claims made by science and the absolute truth claims made by religions, and Christianity in particular. This title examines the interaction between science and the Christian faith and...

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World Christianity in the 20th Century

Noel Davies and Martin Conway, Martin Conway

Provides readers with an overall insight into and analysis of Christianity became a genuinely worldwide faith in the 20th century for the first time. Written for 2nd and 3rd year university students and in seminaries, the book maps out the...

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£25.00

£8.00

Between Truth and Fiction

A Reader in Literature and Christian Theology

David Jasper, Allen Smith, David Jasper

Offers an introduction to textuality and literature, with an overview of hermeneutics and question about reading and reception. This title deals with issues such as intertextuality, the relationship between the Bible and other texts in literature,...

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£30.00

£4.00

Christian Approaches to Other Faiths

SCM Reader

Paul Hedges, Alan Race

A reader designed to work on courses concerned with World Religions, Interfaith Dialogue and Interfaith Encounter.

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£30.00

£5.00

Christian Doctrine

Lindsey Hall, Murray Rae, Steve Holmes

A student-friendly Reader designed to allow easy access to all the necessary primary texts required for a typical level 2 / 3 course on Christian doctrine. Suitable for undergraduate students.

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£35.00

£5.00

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£29.17

World Christianity in the 20th Century

Noel Davies, Martin Conway

Addressing World Christianity in an introductory way, this title serves primarily as a guide to the history of Christianity in the century and as such examines theological issues that have often been at the heart of key historical events and...

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£30.00

£5.00

Deuteronomy

SCM Theological Commentary on the Bible

Telford Work

The book "Deuteronomy" is the final part of the Torah, the second Law, which features regularly in the Old Testament lectionary readings. This commentary, like each in the series, is designed to serve readers by demonstrating the continuing...

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£19.99

£5.00

Jonah

Phillip Cary

The book of Jonah, though listed among the prophets, is a short novella which has inspired the imagination of writers and theologians from the gospels onwards.

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£19.99

£5.00

Leviticus

SCM Theological Commentary on the Bible

Ephraim Radner, R. R. Reno, Robert W. Jensen

Demonstrates the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible. This commentary is intended for the clergy as well as academics and students to provide guidance in reading the Bible under the rule of...

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£19.99

£5.00

Ezrah and Nehemia

Matthew Levering

This commentary, like each in the series, is designed to serve readers by demonstrating the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible.Figures of the classical church such as Augustine, Calvin, Luther,...

Hardback

£19.99

£5.00

Seeking the Church

An Introduction to Ecclesiology

Stephen Pickard

Seeking the Church is an ideal introduction for all who want to engage with the churches theological self-understanding in the present day and through the ages.

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£25.00

£4.00

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£25.00

Pastoral Epistles with Philemon and Jude

Risto Saarinen

A commentary, like each in the series, designed to serve readers by demonstrating the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible.

Hardback

£19.99

£5.00

Ezekiel

Robert W. Jenson

Presents a theological exegesis of Ezekiel that is well suited for Old Testament, Ezekiel, prophets, and theological interpretation courses. This title is part of the "SCM Theological Commentary" series which enlists leading theologians to read and...

Hardback

£19.99

£5.00

Bible Matters

Peter Vardy, Charlotte Vardy

In clear and straightforward language and with plenty of lively examples, Bible Matters charts the development of Biblical Criticism and explores the philosophical assumptions which underlie Historical Criticism and more contemporary approaches to...

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£10.99

£5.00

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£5.95

The Love of Wisdom

An Introduction to Philosophy for Theologians

Andrew Davison

The Love of Wisdom offers a comprehensive introduction to Western intellectual history and philosophy for all studying Christian Theology. The history of Christian theology is interwoven with the wider history of Western thought. A good...

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£25.00

£5.00

Theological Reflections: Methods

Methods

Elaine Graham, Heather Walton, Frances Ward

This title provides a basic introduction to a variety of models of theological reflection and identifies their strengths and weaknesses, providing historical and contemporary examples of these models. It reflects the diversity of church and global...

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£25.00

£5.00

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£25.00

What Do We Believe? Why Does It Matter?

Jeff Astley

What do We Believe? Why Does it Matter? provides a general introduction to the basic beliefs of Christian theology; together with their significance for Christian worship, living and thinking, and the intellectual problems they raise.

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£14.99

£7.00

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£19.99

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