Christianity – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

There’s No More Dying Then

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:03:28 +0000

In this book Stephanie Wilson shares her discoveries about the mystery that is death. This is a book for the living and the younger the better. In spite of her profession as a pathologist, the author had given little thought to the mystery that is death until challenged by a lecture. In this book she shares her discoveries, which she describes as “a personal revelation”. The challenge raised a…

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Springs of Joy: A Biblical Treasury

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:50:02 +0000

Over a period of years Evelyn Scaramanga, a clergyman’s widow, collected some of the best loved and most uplifting passages from the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. Each page is written out in calligraphy, in a modern style, but reminiscent of medieval illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells or Lindisfarne Gospels. The originals are in five colours, the fifth, gold…

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The Advancement of Civilisation in the Western World – Volume 2: The Medieval World

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

This is a series of 3 books. Each are available to purchase separately or can be bought together for a discount. Volume 1: Egypt, Greece & Rome Volume 2: The Medieval World Volume 3: The Modern World “History is the essence of innumerable biographies.” Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian “Histories make men wise.” Francis Bacon, English courtier and essayist The Middle Ages saw the…

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Mithras to Mormon

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:02 +0000

Chosen for Winter 2018 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction When the Romans settled in Britain in 43 CE they could hardly have imagined that the small agricultural settlement of Londinium on the Thames would eventually become one of the biggest cities in the world. Its people worshipped then in small buildings like the Mithraeum, but over the next two thousand years cathedrals…

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The Advancement of Civilisation in the Western World – Volume 1: Egypt, Greece & Rome

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:02 +0000

This is a series of 3 books. Each are available to purchase separately or can be bought together for a discount. Volume 1: Egypt, Greece & Rome Volume 2: The Medieval World Volume 3: The Modern World “The world’s history is the world’s judgement.” Frederich von Schiller, German poet “History is philosophy from examples.” Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Greek historian The general plan of…

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Promoting the Common Good

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:00 +0000

Modern economics has deliberately divorced itself from all moral and ethical considerations in the belief that it needs to be a value-free science. In schools and universities students are taught that what matters is maximising profits and cutting costs – any other considerations are irrelevant to them as economists. This is the philosophy which guides multinationals…

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Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:55 +0000

Even if there is a realm beyond mortality, would finding it improve our lives on earth? What use is Spirit to a troubled world? Do prayer and meditation work? As a young man in search of love and a purpose to live for, the author could not fit within the world he found. Longing to be useful but unwilling to conform, he went out to South America. It wasn’t so easy. Alone on a mountainside one…

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Love is His Meaning

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:47 +0000

This book tells the story of two people, born in poverty, who found each other and married in a world at war. They brought up and educated a family, but while their two sons were still very young, the father, a strong man who had served for twenty-five years in the army in India, developed the symptoms of Huntington’s disease. This cast a deep shadow over the family as his condition deteriorated…

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Christianity and Social Order

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:45:43 +0000

35th in the Church Times 100 Best Christian Books selection This book poses challenging and essential questions on the relationship between Christianity and the nature of a moral society. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1942 until his death in 1944, pointed out that it is the role of the Church to provide the teaching and enunciation of principle upon which the foundation of a…

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