More Christians than ever before are studying and working professionally in the arts - but how to do it with integrity, Christian grit and in the language of our time? This practical introductory textbook is seasoned with quotes from artists, critics and philosophers, and animated with 51 b/w illustrations representing visual art, architecture, music, poetry, drama, media and film. The authors make a quick tour through the history of western art and culture. They identify the roots that led to our current post-modern condition, as well as the sometimes strained relations between the church and artists. They examine the implications of the biblical themes of a good Creation, a perverting Fall and the reality of Redemption for the aesthetic dimension of life. They also look at the way we interpret and interact with art - why does art matter? And how can different approaches to art make art work for us in different ways? Finally they have bold advice and encouragement for Christians involved in the arts or considering an artistic career.

Art and Soul

Brand, Hilary

Chaplin, Adrienne

Brandt, Hilary H.

Religion & Spirituality

Piquant Editions

Lecture, articles, book reviews, published books, PhD thesis, sermons: around two-thirds of the material in these volumes are here available in English for the first time. Published in 2001-2002 to coincide with the commemoration of 25 years since the death of Hans R. Rookmaaker. The Complete Works are available as a 6-volume hardcover set of books. It is also available on CD-Rom as a searchable PDF.

The Complete Works of Hans R Rookmaaker

China is poised to play a definitive role in the third millennium. This comprehensive history traces the roots for China's key international position today in the nineteenth century, looking at the parallel influences of Chinese and Western secular history, trade and diplomacy, including the Opium Wars, as well as the effects of Bible translation and the dissemination of the Scriptures in Chinese under the auspices of the United Bible Societies. Catholic and Protestant missions too played a significant role, and the author focuses particularly on the legacy of the men and women around the central figure of Hudson Taylor who faced the challenge of the evangelization of China with such daring and devotion.

The Shaping of Modern China Hudson Taylor's Life and Legacy Volume One (Early-1867)

A. J. Broomhall

Lightly bumped corners to boards, else a fine copy. With CD Rom

Learn Biblical Hebrew

Dobson, John H.

By Demonstration

Wade Bradshaw

A practical course book for community workers and churches seeking to serve a local community. Learn how to indentify who holds power and who are marginalized, what are the social strengths and weaknesses and what provisions are available. Then learn how to encourage cooperation between existing service providers and how to negotiate new provisions. This resource for students and teachers combines the best practice currently taught with a biblical worldview, illustrated from the author's extensive life experience in varied social and cultural settings.

Compassionate Community Work: An Introductory Course for Christians

ANDREWS, DAVE

The Psalms, new expanded edition! An inspirational, high-quality, full-colour gift book, featuring 45 abstract and expressive paintings by Anneke Kaai. Accompanied by words from Eugene H Peterson's 'The Message' rendition of the biblical Psalms, this resource leads readers and viewers into worship, prayer and meditation. Twenty-five of the paintings previously appeared in 'The Psalms: An Artist's Impression (1999). Twenty new paintings from Kaai's more recent series on 'Relating to God' have been added in this book to reflect an even wider range of emotions and life situations.

Seeing a New Song: Painting the Psalms Connection

eugene-h-peterson

Anneke Kaai

Arts & Photography

If you, or other members of your church, regularly feel frustrated because what you read in the Bible is simply irrelevant to your daily life, or you feel as if there is a barrier keeping you from understanding God's word in a way that inspires you to live it out, then this practical, interactive textbook for pastors, church leaders or Bible students may offer help. In this book, the authors show how Bible translations and Bible formats, for example, or family and church customs, levels of literacy or the way majority and minority languages interact in multi-lingual cultures, all affect the way we understand what we read, and in particular, what we read in the Bible. Next, this book suggests actions to help readers overcome the obstacles they face in reading the Bible with meaningful understanding. The book is structured so that individual chapters can be studied separately in workshops. And those who have studied a chapter can straightaway apply what they have learnt in their churches: they can immediately use this book to teach others! Questions, discussion topics and group activities for learners are included, as well as stories that illustrate the main ideas.

Translating the Bible Into Action: How the Bible Can Be Relevant in All Languages and Cultures

Hill, Harriet

Hill, Margaret

The 4th volume in the Visibilia series presents the art of Roger Wagner: "Faith is indeed the bedrock of Wagner's painting. The expression of this faith places his work firmly in the long tradition of Christian art, whose task was never less than evangelical. To those for whom such an art is by nature imitative and reactionary, the reply is clear; these are new images, their symmetries and symbolic order gentle admonitions of the possibility of beauty, their complexity beyond the scope of abstraction in their semantic and symbolic wealth. They are both a record of the world Wagner has seen and of the role of faith in its construction." CHRIS MILLER

Forms of Transcendence: The Art of Roger Wagner (Visibilia)

Chris Miller

The Shoulders of Giants: Will Houston Mysteries 1

Children's Books

Brooks, Henry

Action & Adventure

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