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.
In this edition, illustrated with beautiful Sung Dynasty paintings that reflect Confucian subjects and ideas, every reader can profit from the timeless philosophy that remains at the heart of Chinese civilisation and tradition.
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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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In this fascinating portrait of the fiery and brilliant preacher who changed the world, Vermes returns to the historical reality of Jesus and his gospel to discover 'the genuine message of the Galilean master'.
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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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This beautifully illustrated book brings together all the best-loved stories from the Old and New Testaments, from Noah’s Ark and David and Goliath to the life of Jesus.
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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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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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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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Widely regarded as the best single-volume account of the papacy, Saints & Sinners charts the 2,000 year history of one the most powerful institutions in the world.
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Darkly comic yet deadly serious, The Screwtape Letters depicts a morally reversed world in which Screwtape presses his protégé to ever more ingenious means of temptation.
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