Augustine Baker: Frontiers of the Spirit
Augustine Baker: Frontiers of the Spirit

Author: Victor de Waal

Publisher: SLG Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0728301814

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Fairacres Publication 161 David Augustine Baker (1575-1641), Welshman, lawyer, Benedictine monk and priest, was an individualist who lived in a number of boundary situations – geographical, linguistic, cultural, religious – and often crossed frontiers. He encouraged Christians to make their home on the borderlands between this world and the next. In this introduction to Dom Augustine Baker’s life and teaching, we hear his own voice directly through the use of extracts from ‘Holy Wisdom’ and other writings. His teaching that spiritual direction, reading and prayer are of help to us on the journey towards the ‘vision of God’ remains pertinent today.

Monastic Vocation
Monastic Vocation

Author: Sisters of the Love of God

Publisher: SLG Press

Published: 2021-08-02

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0728303086

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Fairacres Publications 200 We truly follow a Christian vocation when we hear the call of God in our lives and obey it. This can be a profoundly troubling decision to make, particularly in our largely secular society. In essays written by those living their vocations, this book describes aspects of modern contemplative monastic life, and examines questions that might be asked when considering whether to “surrender the social life” and follow God’s call.

'In the image of the Image': Gregory of Nyssa's Opposition to Slavery
'In the image of the Image': Gregory of Nyssa's Opposition to Slavery

Author: Adam Couchman

Publisher: SLG Press

Published: 2023-07-09

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 0728303590

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St Gregory of Nyssa is the most important author of the fourth century in relation to theological anthropology, and was one of the most outspoken of the early Church Fathers on the subject of slavery. Gregory’s theology is built upon his perception that Jesus Christ was truly human; therefore, to be human is to be made in the image of Christ. We cannot justify slavery if we accept that humans are made in God’s image, because slaves are no less made in the image of God than those who are free. This book examines Gregory’s theology, how he understood and taught about the relationship of human beings to God, and how he applied this theology to the practical issue of slavery.

The Road to Emmaus: A Sculptor’s Journey through Time
The Road to Emmaus: A Sculptor’s Journey through Time

Author: Rodney Munday

Publisher: SLG Press

Published: 2024-08-30

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 0728303914

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The sculptor Rodney Munday examines the impact of the art works that have influenced his thinking and the evolution of his artistic style on his Christian faith, as well as the way in which his faith has shaped his own sculpture. This is an examination of the ways in which the context and reception of religious art through the centuries poses questions about Christianity and how both individuals and the establishment respond to new works of art. In this book we journey with him along his personal ‘road to Emmaus’, recounted with engaging warmth and honesty.

The Prayers of Saint Isaac of Nineveh
The Prayers of Saint Isaac of Nineveh

Author: Sebastian Brock

Publisher: SLG Press

Published: 2024-08-30

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 0728303868

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Fairacres Publications 216 The scholarly investigations and translations of Prof. Sebastian Brock have been largely responsible for bringing Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also known as Isaac the Syrian, to public attention. Isaac was a seventh-century Syriac Christian bishop and monastic author from Beth Qatraye in the region of Qatar. He is best known for his writings on Christian asceticism. This selection of Isaac’s prayers, taken from the three collections of his Discourses, is elegantly translated by Dr Brock into accessible English, bringing the thought and prayer of one of the great Fathers of the Church to modern readers. Their simplicity and sincerity have a surprising beauty and relevance to our Christian journey.

A True Easter: The Synod of Whitby 664 AD
A True Easter: The Synod of Whitby 664 AD

Author: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Publisher: SLG Press

Published: 2023-03-31

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 0728303450

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Fairacres Publications 151 Sister Benedicta gives an illuminating account of the Synod of Whitby 664 AD, held to discuss the date on which Easter should be celebrated. The Synod has been presented as a clash between Irish and Roman missionaries representing two different kinds of Christianity, yet the two traditions mingled with no clear-cut nationalistic divisions. All participants were agreed upon the centrality of Easter as the feast of the Resurrection, and through looking together towards Jesus as the risen Lord, they resolved their difficulties.

Prayer Too Deep for Words
Prayer Too Deep for Words

Author: Sr Edmée Kingsmill SLG

Publisher: SLG Press

Published: 2024-08-30

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 0728303884

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Fairacres Publications 215 In this short book Sister Edmée examines the importance of silence in a prayerful life, not only outward silence, but the need to achieve stillness within, and what this means in terms of our approach to God in prayer. She also examines a more active silence: that of Christ when he listened to those who brought their troubles to him for healing. Her words come from a place of understanding and sympathy, encouraging us not to despair in the noise and complexity of modern life, but to persevere in seeking God in the silence of our hearts, in prayer too deep for words.

Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich

Author: Arthur MacDonald Allchin

Publisher: SLG Press

Published:

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 0728303353

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Fairacres Publication 28 Julian of Norwich: Four Studies to Commemorate the Sixth Centenary of the Revelations of Divine Love This book of four essays, first published in 1973, provides an introduction and companion to the study of the fourteenth-century ‘Revelations of Divine Love’ by Julian of Norwich. The meaning of the Revelations for those who are living a contemplative life today is explored through reflections on Julian’s place in English literature and the tradition of Christian prayer.

An Ecology of the Heart
An Ecology of the Heart

Author: Duncan Forbes

Publisher: SLG Press

Published: 2023-05-10

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0728303531

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Terms such as ‘climate grief’ and ‘ecological anxiety’ describe the sadness and desolation triggered in many people in response to our changing climate. What are we to do with this aching that is sometimes dull, sometimes sharp? Nowhere is immune from extreme weather events, from physical suffering and even death. How should we react to this? These are questions that are central to every religious account of the world and its peoples. This book looks at the insights that can be gained from the world’s faith traditions, particularly Christianity. By considering the extent of the ecological crises that humanity faces, this book discusses the new and searching questions that these crises raise for us and for our faith, and how those questions reflect our approach to our environment and our responsibility in and for the world.

Encountering the Depths
Encountering the Depths

Author: Mother Mary Clare SLG

Publisher: SLG Press

Published: 2024-08-30

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0728303876

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Fairacres Publications 218 This is a book about the nature and practice of prayer for the serious Christian, lay and clerical, in which the problems of the spiritual life in the modern world are presented as a challenge. Mother Mary Clare, who was one of the Anglican Church’s leading spiritual directors, takes the major contemplative themes and brings to them her unique blend of spiritual realism, vision and authority. Prayer begins and ends in the inescapable necessity of a relationship with God; the dimension of silence reveals that praying is not only an action but a still contemplation; the path of spiritual progress is to discern in the union of action and contemplation a deeper listening which leads to an apostolate of prayer renewing the action of contemplation. It is all God’s Work. In his foreword, Bishop Michael Ramsey writes: ‘I hope this little book will have many readers, as I am sure it will help them as it has helped me … Christian lives which know contemplation will be lives nearer the love of God…’