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Religion
Religion has always inspired artists and writers to produce their very finest work, inspirations celebrated here. But the history of all major religions is complex as the discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic Gospels prove.
The Apocrypha
The Apocrypha contains some of the best-known stories in the Bible – stories which have captured the popular imagination and sunk deep into our cultural consciousness, permeating music, literature and art.
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The King James Bible
One of the first acts of King James I when he ascended the throne of England was to commission a new translation of the Bible. The most lasting and influential of all his deeds, the Bible to which his name is given is greatly loved, not only by Christians but by readers with an appreciation of fine and poetic language.
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The Book of Common Prayer
A magnificent facsimile edition of a religious and literary classic. Next to the authorised version of the King James Bible and the plays of William Shakespeare, it is among the most widely read and influential of English literary works.
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Confessions
St Augustine
Proud of his own abilities and deaf to his mother's warnings, from the age of 16 the young Augustine plunged into love affairs and excess.
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The Gnostic Gospels
In 1945, thirteen papyrus books that had lain buried since the 4th century were discovered in an earthenware jar near Nag Hammadi, in Upper Egypt. These were the Gnostic Gospels, alternative Christian texts which challenge those of the New Testament at every turn. In this superb collection, the world’s leading Gnostic scholars open the window in order to shed light on an exciting and controversial discovery.
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The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
First published two years after the King James Bible, Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ, speaks to readers now as it did then, offering a wise and compassionate answer to the eternal question of how to live a better life.
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Oxford Companion to the Bible
Edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan
This Companion provides an authoritative one-volume reference to the people, places, events, institutions, beliefs and secular influence of the Bible.
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The Qur’ân
Few books in history are as important as the Qur’ân. Evoking devotion and passion amongst the faithful, this sacred book, composed in transcendentally beautiful language, is at the heart of one of the world’s great faiths.
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
Thought–provoking and disarmingly personal, James wrote this compelling work at the end of the 19th century – and his emphasis on psychology over theology foreshadowed the work of Freud and Jung.
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