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This book is in very good condition. There is very little wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the cover boards. There is very little, if any, bumping or fraying on the cover boards. The pages are free of yellowing and are clear of markings. "What the church needs, more than anything else, is a new reformation - nothing less will do! Without a new theological reformation, the Christian church as the authentic body of Christ may not survive. As a Christian, a theologian, and a churchman within the Reformed tradition, I must believe that it is possible for the church to exist even though it may be in serious error in substance, strategy, style, or spirit. Martin Luther faced this haunting and recurring question: 'Am I alone right and is all the rest of the church wrong?' "... - Chapter One from Self Esteem: The New Reformation

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, spine, back and edges of the cover board. The corners are slightly bumped. The previous owner's name is written on the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowing but clear of any markings. "This book is written for the reader who is interested in theology but is not a theologian; in philosophy, but not a philosopher; in society, but not a sociologist. There is one other assumption about the reader: he is either an active or a latent Churchman-and, according to Temple, this covers everybody!" - Preface from William Temple: Twentieth-Century Christian

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine, and edges, of the covers. The pages are yellowing somewhat, but the pages are clear of any markings. "Mark Robinsky's mind was not on God as he knelt in the back pew of a small church in the black belt of Alabama, one Saturday morning in the fall of 1961. However, he bowed his head and let the words, "In the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" flow through his consciousness...." - Chapter One from Wine of the Spirit

This book is in good condition. There is a significant amount of wear and stains on the dust jacket. The cover board has some wear on the front, back, spine and edges. The corners of the cover board are bumped. The pages are tanned but clear of any markings."The Layman's Bible Commentary is based on the conviction that the Bible has the Word of good news for the whole world. The Bible is not the property of a special group. It is not even the property and concern of the Church alone. It is given to the Church for its own life but also to bring God's offer of life to all mankind-wherever there are ears to hear and hearts to respond...." - Preface from The Layman's Bible Commentary: Volume 23: 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

This book is in good condition. The is minimal wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards. There is minimal wear on the edges of the cover boards, and there is no bumping. There are some stains on the front cover board. the pages are just turning yellow and tanned.The pages are clear of any markings. "Obtaining information about America's religious groups can be difficult, providing it to others is a king-sized undertaking. For one thing, there are so many. For another, finding a way to make contact with them to gather facts and figures, especially from the smaller, less highly organized ones, can be a mystery. And then there is the question of which ones to include in a reference book of this kind. Finally, classifying them - that is, under which heading, if any, to place them and how to list them by title - sometimes requires a judgement call or even a bold venture...." - Preface to the Eighth Edition from Handbook of Denominations in the United States

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the cover. The previous owners name and motto is affixed to the inside of the front cover. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "For several intense days in the fall of 1993 the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church gathered to reflect on the central role of scripture for our life as a church, and to look at the various ways in which the authority of scripture is expressed. Working in groups of eight, we had an opportunity to share our understandings and being informed by one another. At the conclusion of our time together we were in full accord that it had been time well spent. I believe we were enriched, both individually and as a House of Bishops, by our discussions...." - Preface from The Bible's Authority in Today's Church

This book is in very good condition There is little to no wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The original owner's name is affixed to the inside of the front cover board. The pages are clear of any markings. "There are two ways of writing a short book on a vast subject. One is the potted survey, where everyone appears in the index but very little is added about them in the text. The other is a more impressionistic approach. It is the way of a photographer, choosing certain significant images to suggest a broader scene. And it is the way best suited to the text of an illustrated book, highlighting certain moments at the price of others." - Preface from The Christians

This book is in very good condition. There is minimal wear on the front, back, and the spine. There is minimal wear on the edges and the corners are slightly bumped. The back of the cover board does have two dents in it, and the top of the cover board and spine are discolored. The pages are crisp, clean and white and free from markings. The binding is tight and solid. "Stained glass is unique among the arts of the world because of the relationship That exists between glass and light. We see colour on a painted surface through the reflection of light; the colour we see in a stained- glass window is from the light refracted through it. The colours of the glass are deadened by reflected light, and when darkness falls a stained-glass window cannot be brought to life." - Stained Glass

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover board. The corners are slightly bumped. The pages are yellowed but clear of any markings."To write the histories of the churches of the Diocese of Northwest Texas! I first became aware of this project of Katharine Waring in 1990, while working on a history of St. Mark's, Coleman. There was a definite need for such a work. In my own research, I had used the works of Claude A. Beesley, the Rev. Dr. Lawrence L. Brown, the Rev. DuBose Murphy and even my own Vicar, the Rev. Timothy Perkins...." - Foreword from The Episcopal Church In Northwest Texas: 1874-1990

This book is in very good condition. There is some minor wear on the front, back, and spine of the cover boards. The edges are slightly worn and the corners are bumped. The previous owners stamp is affixed to the inside of the front cover board and his seal is stamped on the title page. The pages are clean, crisp and free of all markings. "The Alternative Service Book 1980, billed as the greatest publishing event in the Church of England for 300 years, marked a turning point in the Church's worship. Before 1980 the services, all in booklets, seemed always to be changing. From 1980, the services are fixed in a book which will shape Anglican worship for ten years or more. Now is the time for learning about the ASB 1980 services, and learning to use them better...." Introduction from Collins Illustrated Guide to the Alternative Service Book 1980

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The corners are bumped. The previous owners name is written on the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowed and tanned but clear of any markings. "This work has been in preparation for a number of years – – – which may account for some repetition here and there. Certainly there can be no claim to finality or definitiveness for it. It represents only one more slight effort in furthering our understanding of the magnitude and significance of Chronicles in the light of recent study and discoveries, archaeological and linguistics...." - Preface from I Chronicles: Introduction, Translation, And Notes

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "In this book I have gathered together a number of lectures, sermons and addresses given during the thirteen and a half years in which I was Archbishop of York, and during my opening months as Archbishop of Canterbury...." - Preface from Convictions

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is bumping on the corners. The previous owners name is written on the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowed and tanned but clear of any markings. "The biblical book of Chronicles is actually one book which, because of its length when translated from Hebrew into Greek, was divided into what we know as I and II Chronicles. The division into two volumes has been retained here, but the interrelatedness of the two precluded two separate introductions that would, by avoiding repetition, tend to mislead the reader into thinking that I and II Chronicles or two distinct works...." - Translator's Note from The Anchor Bible's II Chronicles: Introduction, Translation, And Notes

This book is in very good condition. The front and back cover have minimal wear as well as the spine. The edges have minimal wear and the corners have hardly been bumped.The previous owners signature is written on the inside of the front cover. The pages are clean but are starting to yellow and tan. The binding is tight and solid. "No one can foretell the future. Even the most imaginative and farsighted of the men of the mid-19th century-men like Jules Verne in technology or Admiral Mahan in naval strategy-saw only in dim outline a few features of the middle of the twentieth century. We now have a range of technology that would have astonished even Jules Verne and it is by no means clear to us what the shape of the mid-twenty-first century will be. We too may see some shapes, some outlines. That is what this book is about." - Foreword, Man on a Spaceship

This book is in good condition. There is significant wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover. The corners are worn. The previous owner's name is written on the inside of the front cover. The pages are tanned but clear of any marking."Why a new edition of the documents of Vatican II? For eighteen years I have been involved in the translation and publication of official Church documents, including those of Vatican II and its aftermath, and I have long felt that there is need for a volume containing not only the sixteen Council documents, but also as useful a selection as possible of the relevant subsequent official documents, those which dot the i's and cross the t's, as it were, of the sixteen...." - Introduction from Vatican Council II The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents

This book is in good condition. The cover is worn and the corners are damaged.The previous owners names and organizations are attached and written on the inside front cover and on the first pageA devotional book in the uniform series of the Roodcroft Library, this volume contains twenty-six studies of "the great and exceeding precious promises"' of Holy Scripture. These are brief chapters of meditative reading, having also a pronounced teaching value. They are based on texts from the Old and New Testaments, mainly from the New. Each chapter closes with a group of "Aspirations and Prayers," all quoted from the Scriptures and chosen with excellent perception of their relation to the subject matter of the chapter.

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover. The corners are slightly bumped. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. The author has signed the title page."...that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Isaiah 50:4What does one say to a congregation in need of revival? what does one say to disheartened Catholics in need of renewal? I pondered these questions on a daily basis from 1983 to 1997. Living out the answers to these questions became the primary focus of my life when Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly called me from a thriving rural parish to the heart of the city to "do something with the cathedral." Introduction from One Heart At A Time: Renewing The Church In The New Millennium

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards The corners are slightly bumped.on the cover boards. The previous owners name is stamped on the inside of the front cover board. The pages are white, crisp and clear of all markings.The binding is cracked on the front of the spine and the previous owner used clear tape to repair the binding. "The Book of my esteemed friend Dietrich von Hilderbrand entitled True Morality and its Counterfeits was heralded when it first appeared as the most fully considered answer to a law-defying situation ethics as well as to an ossified legalistic ethics. The book is a positive and constructive answer. The reader can understand with little difficulty the basic principles in question...." - Preface from Morality And Situation Ethics

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards. There is also some staining on the cover boards. The edges of the cover boards show minimal wear as well as the corners. The pages are just beginning to yellow and tan, but are free from markings. The binding is starting to loosen but still solid and tight. "The substance of this book was first given as five Lent Lectures in Norwich Cathedral in 1967. I should like to record my appreciation to the Dean and Chapter for the honour of this invitation, and also to my audience for their discussion afterwards. The original content of these lectures is here considerably revised and expanded...." - Preface from Healing Miracles: An Examination from History and Experience of the Place of Miracle in Christian Thought and Medical Practice

New York: Palgrave, ( 2001 ). First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo; 308 pages, cloth Sixteen essays on Sin by John Portmann, Ludwig Feuerbach, Seneca, Nietzsche, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde ("The Decay of Lying"), Bernard Mandeville, Sigmund Freud, etc.