The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession by John Cornwell
$39.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
Would you tell your deepest secrets to a relative stranger? And if you did, would you feel vulnerable? Cleansed? Or perhaps even worse than you did before? Confession has always performed a complex role in society, always created mixed feelings in its practitioners. As an acknowledgement of sinfulness, ...Show more
Why Can't They Get Along by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
$24.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
Christians, Muslims and Jews all stem from one man, Abraham, and yet relations between them are so often strained. Three men of faith - one Jew, one Muslim and one Christian - debate the differences between them. The result is a compelling discussion: What do their faiths teach on the big issues of life ...Show more
Atheist's History of Belief by Matthew Kneale
$27.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltering in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits? And why has belief thrived ever since, leading us to invent heaven and hell, sin and redemption, and above all, gods? Religion reflects our deepest hopes and fears; whether you are a beli ...Show more
The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives by Zondervan Publishing
$32.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion | Series: Case for ... Ser.
The Case for a Creator explored the scientific evidence for God; The Case for Christ investigated the historical evidence for Jesus; The Case for Faith responded to eight major objections about Christianity; The Case for The Real Jesus refuted the current challenges to the Bible and Christ ... Now, in T ...Show more
Conversations with God: Awaken the Species (Book 4 HB) by Neale Donald Walsch
$37.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
This is the brand new fourth book in the bestselling Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch. In the middle of the night on 2 August 2016, he found himself drawn into a new and wholly unexpected dialogue with God - one in which he suddenly faced two questions: Is the human race being offere ...Show more
The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis by Garry Wills
$37.00 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
Secondhand. The New York Times bestselling historian takes on a pressing question in modern religion--will Pope Francis embrace change?Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first from the Americas, offers a challenge to his church. Can he bring about significant change? Should he? Garry Wills ...Show more
The Path to Change - Thoughts on Politics & Society by Francis; Dominique Wolton
$37.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
Pope Francis recounts his early life, including his relationship with his mother and his grandmothers, former girlfriends and childhood sweethearts, as well as the psychoanalysis he underwent aged 42. Dominique Wolton asks Pope Francis about his decision not to live at the grand Apostolic Palace, about ...Show more
Our Church : A Personal History of the Church of England by Roger Scruton
$49.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church ...Show more
The Story of the Jews : Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more
Living With the Gods - On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor
$70.00 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion | Reading Level: very good
A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition. One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a s ...Show more
Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World by Alec Ryrie
$26.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk - today, it includes a billion people across the globe. The upheaval Martin Luther trig ...Show more
The House of Islam by Ed Husain
$32.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
'Not just timely but important too. Ed Husain does not just set out the fundamentals of Islam as a religion but explains how and why understanding it properly matter. This should be compulsory reading' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads A fascinating and revelatory exploration of the intricacies ...Show more