Books published by Canterbury Press Norwich

Mountains in the Bible are places of dramatic and life-changing encounter with God, and they are a perfect metaphor for the challenges of spiritual life. Here is a 'climbing tour' of the mountain ranges of the soul via ten biblical mountains.

This revised third edition handbook is designed to be of interest to clergy, organists and all those concerned with Anglican Church music.

A publication with guidance that can be adapted to any individual circumstances and a centuries old, proven guide on how to live in community with others. Here is Benedictine spirituality in essence: the timeless wisdom of the Rule and a basic orientation and includes Patrick Barry's translation of the "Rule of St Benedict".

An essential handbook for preachers and a lively, informed devotional companion for those who prepare for worship by reading the Scriptures, this commentary on the Principal Service readings for Year C will help you engage more deeply with the Scripture readings of the day.

Many people have wondered where Mother Teresa found the motivation and the strength to give herself so totally to loving the poorest of the poor. This little book provides us with an answer. Collected here are Mother Teresa's favourite prayers; many written by herself, others which she and the Sisters of Charity used on a daily basis. Together they provide an intimate and rare portrait of a modern day saint for whom work and prayer were inseparable. Her days began and ended with prayer, and every activity was rooted in attentive listening to God. Mother Terra.' Prayer Book is therefore the ideal daily spiritual companion for all who are seeking to know and do God's will.

ELIZABETH RUTH OBBARD was born into an army family and educated in England and Germany. After completing her schooling she spent a year in nursing and then entered the religious life. At present she is novice mistress at the Carmel of Our Lady of Walsingham, Langham, Norfolk. Other publications include: Lamps of Fire, daily readings with St John of the Cross; Magnificat the Journey and the Song; La Madre, the Life and Spirituality of St Teresa of Avila; Introducing Julian, Woman of Norwich. She has also contributed to various books and periodicals and written and illustrated some books for children.

Amor Dei - a study of the religion of St Augustine -was first published as the Hulsean Lectures for 1938 when John Burnaby was a classics Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Later, after ordination he became Regius Professor of Divinity in 1952 until his retirement.Professor Oliver O'Donovan, in his Foreword to this new paperback re-issue says of the author: `. . . he had found in Augustine of Hippo a Christian whose thought was large enough for a modern believer to devote a lifetime to. A new generation of Burnaby's readers will sense something of that largeness, and will, I hope, also appreciate the largeness of the sympathy that could communicate it so well.'

Daily readings from Scripture and prayes.

Intended for all involved in church leadership at the local or structural level. This book draws on leadership theory and practice from a range of disciplines to offer some techniques and solutions. It provides techniques and solutions in relation to: developing lay leadership; building team ministry; leading a group of congregations; and more.

Addresses the questions that every Christian ought to be asking: how did the Bible come together? Why do we believe it to be true? What is faith? How do we know God? What does it mean to belong to the Church? and more. Drawing on 2000 years of theological writing and insight, this is a guide to Christian faith.

A study of the history and of the publications of the Alcuin Club during the first 90 years of its existence.

A biography of Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961 and supporter of the ecumenical movement. Dr Carpenter has also written "Cantaur" - a study of all Archbishops of Canterbury from the first in 597.

Many people today are looking to the ancient discipline of following a rule of life to strengthen their sense of living in Christ. In 49 short chapters this wise and gentle rule from the Society of St John the Evangelist provides practical guidance.

What rare learning John Breay has... the whole mood and air of the Victorian Church of the north-west can be breathed. What fun the man Brunskill is, with little insights into famous men like Sharp, Villiers and Harvey Goodwin... wonderful to meet a clergyman whose expertise is the shoeing of horses... The self-educated man who left school at fifteen and is interested in Wordsworth and Ruskin... can hold down the job of a headmaster and can write English prose in letters to the Press!' --The Revd Professor Owen Chadwick

Bernard Palmer presents a series of mini-biographies of four outstanding Anglicans who achieved fame as exemplars of the Franciscan ideal in action in the first half of the twentieth century. All four men founded, or helped to found, religious communities or organisations and were the guiding lights of those communities in their formative years.

The Society of the Sacred Mission, founded in 1893, soon turned to training priests, offering an inexpensive, thoroughly professional road to ordination. Their best known member, Fr Gabriel Hebert, made the Bible live for twentieth-century Christians.

The purpose of this book is to enable readers to hear a voice from their own past - learning that the process of remembering, of ongoing corporate recollections, is an element essential to understanding.

We tend to associate darkness with the absence of God, yet the season of Advent is all about the unseen workings of God in preparation for new life and hope. This book explores the gifts of God that can be found not only during Advent, but at those times in life when we feel engulfed in darkness.

Ronald Blythe asks people from all walks of life to reflect in their own words on what it is like to be old. The result is a fascinating and moving series of confidences which we are privileged to share.

Using Coverdale's translation of the Psalms from the Book of Common Prayer, the very best of Anglican chant is married to texts that have been used to sing the transcendent glory of God for three thousand years.

Like her 14th century predecessor Julian of Norwich, Sr Elizabeth lives as a solitary attached to a religious community. Here, she uses the symbols of the three windows of Julian's cell to explore the themes of self-awareness, compassion for others and longing for God.