Books published by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd

A brilliant new Lent Course for 2019, based on the hugely popular film The Greatest Showman. The 2018 Golden Globe-nominated movie starring Hugh Jackman is ideal for Lenten study of Christian themes of hope, redemption and new life.

There's so much that so many daughters have never heard from their mothers: from advice to support, to compliments, to validation, to encouragement. Perhaps you do not have a mother who is able to say these things to you, or perhaps you have a mother who won't. To the Unloved Daughter is a daybook of the loving words you need to hear.

Inspired by Father Alfred Delp, who wrote a meditation titled The Shaking Reality of Advent while imprisoned by the Nazis during WWII, Bishop Peter B. Price has written a series of reflections and prayers to be read on each day of Advent.

In this new edition, the author draws on the teaching of Julian of Norwich, and maintains that we project our own anger on to our image of God, whereas His compassionate love is acting at all times to abate and dispel the wrath within ourselves. Once this deficient image of God is corrected the scene is set for an authentic prayer life.

Offering thought-provoking approaches to the contraversial issue of homosexuality and faith, the author presents an account of Christianity that is rooted in the Catholic tradition.

Bridging the gap between romanticised and simplistic apporaches to Celtic spirituality and the discoveries of modern hostorians this book will appeal to general readers and students alike.

Provides analyses of religion and violence, reconciliation and forgiveness and gay/straight issues by one of the most original voices in Catholic theology.

In this volume of the TRADITIONS OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY series, the author examines the roots of the Franciscan order and then explores persistent themes such as incarnation, suffering, poverty, peace and creation. Through his insights we see the relevance of their spirituality for our lives today.

A book helping those unused to study to develop the tools for studying theology.

One of the most important books on the Old Testament of recent years. The general reader will find it enlightening and inforativeto the highest degree.

This book, the second of a major two-volume work, exposes the processes by which silence can transfigure our lives-what Maggie Ross calls `the work of silence'; it describes how lives steeped in silence can transfigure other lives unawares.

Walk to Jerusalem describes the outer journey, mostly on foot, and the inner journey of his mind and heart as he ponders the question, 'What can we little people do?'. His answer is, 'Infinitely more than we think'. Gerard Hughes' reflections on the nature of justice and the implications of belief in Christ's peace are thought-provoking. This is a challenging book which examines the nature of our spirituality today and takes us to the heart of Christian faith.

The creator of The Happiness Course explores what it means to be happy, why being happy is so important to us, and what it may require from us to attain happiness.

Drawing on the experiences and lessons of over forty years working in reconciliation, in Northern Ireland, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, Peter B. Price explores what it means to respond to the biblical call to 'seek peace ... and pursue it' (Psalm 34:14).

Based on the caterpillar-chrysalis-butterfly metaphor of Hidden Wings, this book offers spiritual insights and wisdom from the likes of Teilhard de Chardin to help us explore what it means to be an agent of spiritual change in our own life and that of the world around us.

A wide range of UK and US LGBT+ Christians share their stories, perspectives, and experiences as they have worked hard to reconcile their faith and sexuality.

In this classic book of orthodox spirituality, Metropolitan Anthony calls for a worshipful attitude towards God, people and life. He sums up the Christian lifein terms of worship, joy, and the challenge to grow into full stature. He also explores doubt, holiness, prayer, and man's relationship to God. He stresses that man becomes truly human only when he is united with God, infinitely, deeply, inseparably.

John Henry Newman was one of the most fasinating and important figures of the nineteenth century. Charming, sensitive and difficult, he showed his intellectual greatness especially in his response to religious doubt. His life was one of passionate frienships and enmities. This book was acclaimed as the most scholarly and accessible introduction to Newman's life and thought when first published in 1990.

The late Cardinal Basil Hume described this book as a collection of 'starting points for prayer and meditation'. It includes a moving meditation on the Our Father that Cardinal Hume shared with his friend John Crowley a few days before his death. John Crowley writes in the foreword, 'This poignant context gives an especially luminous quality to this particular meditation, but everything in this book is likely to provide a trigger for prayer.'.

This book examines the extraordinary flowering of the English spirituality in the fourteenth and early fifiteen centuries, and shows its continuing power to nourish contempory life and prayer.Though each the writers discussed in this book each has a unique voice they share a common experience of living in an age of fear, violence and disintegration, and their work has a strange resonance for us.