CHRISTIANITY from Bookhome Sydney

Oyster Bay, NSW: St Francis Community, 2008. Paperback large trade, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 328 pp. This book is an edited version of a course of lectures at the Academy of the Word, the teaching arm of the St Francis Community. Franciscans do not believe in living lavishly while other Christians live in poverty. Dr Alex Reichel… Read more about this item

Leominster, Hereford: Gracewing Publishing, 2010. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear, sticker mark rear cover. 140 pp. A book of essays, edited by William Oddie, about the Christian and spiritual life of the famous English essayist and novelist, G. K. Chesterton. He was well known for his Father Brown mysteries. Six distinguished contributors explore his religious… Read more about this item

Mulgrave, VIC: John Garratt Publishing, 2011. 1st ed.. Paperback wide trade, very good condition, minor edgewear corner tips. 129 pp. Sister Joan Chittister considers how the insights and values of the sixth-century monk St Benedict can illuminate today's search for a meaningful life. The book has twelve stories from Benedict's life, one for each month.

Bedford, UK: Printed by Newnorth-Burt Ltd, 1980. Paperback quarto, very good condition, thin card covers, stapled, colour photos, few marks inside front cover, small scuff rear cover, minor edgewear corner tips. 16 pp. This pamphlet is the first popular profile of a great Cathedral choir, its musicians, and its heritage. There are two photos inside the rear cover of… Read more about this item

Windsor: Dean and Canons of Windsor / Printed by Shenval Press Limited, 1980. Paperback tall trade, very good condition, folded pamphlet, black & white drawings, plan, minor edgewear. 8 pp. This pamphlet is about the St George's Chapel at Windsor. The building is an outstanding architectural part of history, and an important place of prayer. The pamphlet includes a… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press (OUP), 1991. Reprint ed.. Paperback large trade, very good condition, minor edgewear, cover design differs from stock photo. 169 pp. Canadian academic Schuyler Brown investigates the new religious movement of Jesus, the experiences that catalysed missionary activity after his death, how Christianity separated from Judaism, and how the new Christian ecclesial structures influenced later… Read more about this item

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), 1937. 1st ed.. Hardback thick octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), navy colour top edge, endpaper maps, black & white photos, frontispiece, foxing edges, light foxing & toning endpapers, light foxing some pages (mostly top edge), flap price-clipped dustjacket (rear cover split at join to spine, slight loss spine ends &… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Raven Press, 1982. Paperback wide trade, good condition, stapled pamphlet, few black & white photos, top corner front cover & few pages little creased, light foxing inside covers & title page (few spots elsewhere), few marks rear cover, minor edgewear corner tips covers. 36 pp. This pamphlet is a history of the growth of the Deepdene church in… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Richmond: Design and Printing / Jesuit Publications, 2004. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet (fold-out page loosely inserted), colour photos, spine rubbed & creased, corner tips covers slightly creased, minor edgewear. 20 incl. insert pp. This pamphlet is set out in three parts: a biographical note on St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits and patron of… Read more about this item

Bowral, NSW: Church of St Simon and St Jude, 1974. Paperback large trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, card cover, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear. 48 pp. A history of St Jude's Church, Bowral (New South Wales), by the former churchwarden, written to mark the centenary of its founding in 1974.

London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1994. 1994 ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, creases along spine, minor edgewear, light foxing rear cover, minimal pencil annotation. 27 pp. In this small pamphlet the Catholic author has written a few simple stories of everyday meetings with people of living and different faiths. The six sections touch briefly on a… Read more about this item

Napier: Cathedral Publicity Committee / Printed by The Daily Telegraph, 1965. Paperback trade, good condition, stapled pamphlet, stiffened card covers, black & white photos, front cover little rubbed, staples rusted, spine little rubbed, minor toning covers, rear cover creased & lightly foxed, white background rear cover marked & little scratched, minor edgewear. 28 pp. This fascinating history has been… Read more about this item

East Point, GA: Richard Averitt, 1991. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, minor edgewear,. 14 pp. American, possibly a theologian, argues for more precise interpretation and meaning of key words in the Bible, such as in the Greek and Hebrew texts (I think). He complains his proposals were rejected by many publishing houses.

Athens: Malliaris-Pedia Publishing, 1987. Ephemera, small octavo cover (colour drawing, little creased), small format booklet inside front cover (pages loose), large oblong foldout colour map inside rear cover (minor creases & edge tears). 31 pp. This English-language pamphlet informs visitors to the Eastern Orthodox monasteries and surrounds on the Athos Peninsula, northeastern Greece. Describes the monasteries and visitor protocol… Read more about this item

Sydney, North Sydney: Library of Australian History / Star Printery, 1984. Facsimile ed.. Paperback wide trade, very good condition, black & white illustrations, minor edgewear. 64 pp. Morgan O’Connor relates his fascinating story of this creation of the Yass Christian Mission. He was born in 1829 in Mullingar, Westmeath, Ireland, descended from an historic family of Kerry. He completed… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 2001. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 442 pp. Bestseller by Karen Armstrong about one of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world: religious extremism. The need to understand it has never been greater. Explains brilliantly how and why the fundamentalist understanding of religion and society differs so starkly from… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Moreland: Acorn Press, 2015. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear, written dedication. 266 pp. This is the story of Young Ambassadors for Peace (Uniting Church of Australia, plus Catholic women), a model of workshops and networks to sow 'seeds of peace' among young people living on opposite sides of conflict. Groups… Read more about this item

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2007. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), small mark front free flyleaf, minor edgewear 195 pp. The American lawyer proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence's "Creator and Nature's God", on the one hand, and the Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on… Read more about this item

Newcastle, NSW: Newcastle Public Library / Newcastle and Hunter District Historical Society, 1967. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled, printed textured thin card covers, black & white photos, staples little rusted, tiny tear & scuff top edge front cover, top corners last few pages & rear cover lightly creased, minor edgewear. 73 pp. This booklet covers the… Read more about this item

Sydney: Catholic Theological Faculty, 1976. 1st ed.. Hardback, no jacket (as issued), very good condition, top edge minimally foxed, small mark fore-edge, faint toning edges, spine little faded, written name & date flyleaf. 230 pp. This book is based on the author's PhD. thesis, The Catholic Laity and Secular Education in New South Wales 1860 - 1885, which he… Read more about this item