Books by Richard Harries

Perceptive portraits of twenty renowned writers, with illuminating reflections on their struggles with faith and life, and on the way faith is explored in some their greatest works

An anthology by a collective of four performance poets of differing styles, experience, and philosophies.

Life is at once wonderful and appalling, beautiful and horrific. How can we live with this contradiction? And how can we believe in a just and loving God in the face of all the evils of the world in which we have evolved?

Life is at once wonderful and appalling, beautiful and horrific. How can we live with this contradiction? And how can we believe in a just and loving God in the face of all the evils of the world in which we have evolved?

The Image of Christ in Modern Art explores the challenges, presented by the radical and rapid changes of artistic style in the 20th century, to artists who wished to relate to traditional Christian imagery. In this highly illustrated book, Richard Harries looks at artists associated with the birth of modernism, such as Epstein and Rouault.

Richard Harries has been at the heart of thinking about issues include cloning, human-animal hybrids and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. He shows that the Western Christian tradition is compatible with work in this area.

Takes a looks at decision making in our lives. This book includes chapters that focus on the drivers of human life: sex, money, power and fame.

The Bishop of Oxford listens to and answers questions about God and Christianity. He deals with such issues as: religion keeps people immature; Christianity is anti-life; religion is divisive and stuck in the past; and why is there suffering?