MALDEN, R.H. (FORMERLY DEAN OF WELLS)

The English Church and Nation

London, SPCK. 1952, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on green cloth boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a little light foxing to fore edge and to endpapers else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. 434 pages. The book is primarily the substance of a course of lectures which the author delivered at Wells during the years 1945 to 1947. It covers the Church's history from the Roman occupation up to 1947. R4. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010084

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Ecclesiastical History, English Church History

MANASSES

Go in Peace

London, SPCK. 1958, First Edition. Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A clean, tight and unmarked copy with some minor marks to back and only a touch of wear to spine edge. With a foreword by the Author of 'The Way'. Manasses is a pseudonym used by the anonymous author. 'Individual sinfulness is the underlying cause of the appalling insecurity of our time, and Manasses goes to the root of the matter, and shows what we must do about our sins'. 'This is a book for sinners to study, that they may see the way to experience that peace of God which passeth all understanding'. NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY R7. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005973

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Sins, Repentance, Confession

MANSER, MARTIN H.

Best Loved Hymns, Poems and Readings

London, Collins. 2004. (ISBN: 000717277X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine copy which has an inscription to front endpaper else unmarked with Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. xxxvi + 281 pages. This carefully chosen selection of the best loved hymns and readings is a staple for any bookshelf. Each reading or hymn is introduced with a brief history to the piece and its author, providing new levels of interest and a sense of context. The 200 hymns, reading and verses have been arranged alphabetically, and there is a set of indexes which detail first lines, themes, Bible references and authors. R1. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009535

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Keywords: Hymns, Readings 000717277x

MANSON, PROFESSOR WILLIAM

Jesus the Messiah - the Synoptic Tradition of the Revelation of God in Christ: With Special Reference to Form-Criticism

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1943, First. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with minor indentaions and bumping to lower corner tips. Internally there is a small name to fron pastedown else very clean, tight and unmarked. xii + 200 pages. The book incorporates a course of public lectures by Professor Manson. It is not the primary intention of the book to handle afresh the problem of the Messianic consciousness of Jesus, but rather to show how, on the basis of the confession of Jesus as Messiah, the early Church built up the structure of its distinctive witness to the Christian revelation of God. R1. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010772

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Keywords: Jesus the Messiah, Synoptic Tradition, Primitive Christian Confession, Early Oral Tradition

MANSON, T.W.

The Teaching of Jesus - Studies of Its Form and Content

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1951. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark blue title on light blue cloth boards which have fading to spine and a small indentation to lower front but no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. xi + 352 pages. A set of studies which are linked together by two main ideas. One is that the substance of the Gospel 'is neither a dogmatic system nor an ethical code, but a Person and a Life'. The other is that the key to the New Testament is the notion of the 'saving Remnant'. NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY R2. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010340

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Teachings of Jesus, Eschatology

MARGARET, SISTER TERESA

I Choose All - a Study of St. Therese of Lisieux and Her Spiritual Doctrine

Worcestershire, Fowler Wright. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on green boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is foxing to fore edge else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has some foxing. The aim of this present study is to examine aspects of her spirituality and doctrine which have frequently been distorted and misrepresented, to provide matter for prayer and meditation, and illustrate how applicableto the daily life of every Christian is the method perfected by St. Therese in her own life, and recommended to the faithful by six successive popes. R4. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005744

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Saint Therese of Lisieux, Carmel, Carmelite, French Saints

MARITAIN, JACQUES

Christianity and Democracy

London, Geoffrey Bles. 1946. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Silver title on black cloth boards which are clean with some minor marks to front and just a touch of light wear to lower front edge. Internally there are a few spots of foxing to endpapers and two pages have a very small mark to the lower margins not affecting text else clean, tight and unmarked. Second impression (first was 1945). The book was written in the summer of 1942, at a time when the outcome of the war could still seem very disquieting, and appeared in French early in the spring of 1943, at a time when, whatever acts of desperation or machiavellianism Germany might yet try, her defeat and that of her partners seemed certain. Maritain reviews the role of Christianity and democracy at that crucial time. NOT EX LIB R5. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006400

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Christianity, Democracy

MARNHAM, PATRICK

Lourdes - a Modern Pilgrimage

London, Heinemann. 1980, First. (ISBN: 0434450456). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 225 pages. 16 illustrations. Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrenees, is the destination every year of over 3 million pilgrims, mostly between May and October. It has 400 hotels employing 4,000 guest workers: the Ciergerie Lourdaise produces a ton of candles every day; and the post office handles six and a half million postcards a year. All this has come about because here in 1858 a frail 14 year old girl, Bernadette Soubirous, experienced a series of visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and discovered a spring of clear water in a cave. An absorbing and objective study of all aspects of Lourdes. R1. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 010262

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Keywords: Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, Bernadette Soubirous, Visions of Blessed Virgin Mary, Miracles 0434450456

MARSHALL, REV. F.

The School and College St. Luke

London, George Gill & Sons. 1898, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which have a few barely noticeable small marks but no wear. Internally there is a small contemporary name to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. Lacks rear free endpaper. The Oxford and Cambridge edition. Not dated but first edition was 1898 and re-issued in 1922 but this seems to collate with the British Library 1898 edition of 189 pages plus a section on 'Our Lord's Teaching and 'Critical Notes' bringing the total pages to 211. 8 coloured maps. A scholarly account of St. Luke's gospel and life. R3. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003858

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Keywords: St. Luke, Gospel

SARSON, MARY AND PHILLIPS, MABEL ADDISON

The History of the People of Israel in Pre-Christian Times

London, Longmans, Green. 1928. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black titles on blue cloth boards. Fading to spine with a little wear to spine head and tail and to corners. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers and a small neat signature to front endpaper else clean, tight and unmarked. New impression with a preface by the Rt. Rev. A.A. David, D.D. Bishop of Liverpool and formerly Headmaster of Rugby School. xv + 356 pages. Overall a G+ copy. An erudite and comprehensive history by the two scholars in 14 chapters with 4 maps and 7 appendices, some fold out, of chronologies. A detailed background to the study of the Old Testament. R1. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001975

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: History of Israel, Patriarchs, Hebrew Literature, Davidic Kingdom, Period of the Judges, Canaan

MARY, SISTER FELICITY

Mother Millicent Mary of the Will of God - Mother Foundress of the Society of the Precious Blood 1869-1956

London, Macmillan. 1968, First Edition. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy which has some light foxing to top edge. In 1905 Mother Millicent founded the Society of the Precious Blood for work amongst the poor, but later the Community discovered its vocation to the enclosed contemplative life, and in 1916 found a home at Burnham Abbey, a recently restored 13th century foundation in Buckinghamshire. The book is written with restraint and sensitivity by a member of the Community who knew and loved Mother Millicent. NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY R8. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005995

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Keywords: Society of the Precious Blood, Burnham Abbey Buckinghamshire, Anglican Enclosed Communities

MARY, SISTER EDNA (OF THE DEACONESS COMMUNITY OF ST. ANDREW)

This World and Prayer

London, SPCK. 1965. Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A VG+ clean, tight and unmarked copy. St. Paul enjoins us to 'pray without ceasing', but how can this be done in the modern world, amid all the pressures of life? The answer that Sister Edna Mary of the Deaconess Community of St. Andrew gives is that the world and prayer are not to be separated. NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY R8. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010599

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Keywords: Prayer, Meditation, Spirituality

MASCALL, E.L.

The Secularisation of Christianity - an Analysis and a Critique

London, Darton, Longman & Todd. 1965, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket. In this book Dr. Mascall sets himself to make an analysis of the case for for secularised Christianity, as propounded in 'Honest to God' and 'The Secular Meaning of the Gospel'; and to criticise the thesis of each of these books with his own characteristic lucidity. He has added chapters which trace the intellectual setting in which both books have arisen and uncovers the various influences at work behind the reductionist process - Bultmann's demythologising, existentialism, the autonomy of science, humanism, linguistic analysis and uncontrolled Form-Criticism. NOT EX LIB R3. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 006191

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Secularisation, Bultmann, Demythologising, Humanism, Linguistic Analysis

MASON, PHILIP

Christianity and Race - the Burroughs Memorial Lectures, 1956

New York, St Martin's Press. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. In this lucid and provocative book, the Director of Studies on Race Relations at Chatham House, looks at the Christian ethic as it faces its sharpest challenge in the field of race relations. He sees Christianity challenged from without by the scientific humanist and from within by the attitude of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa. NOT EX LIB R1. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 007820

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Christianity, Race Relations, Dutch Reformed Churches, Humanists, Chatham House

BETHA, PASTOR MASON WITH HUNTER, KAREN

Revelations - There's a Light After the Lime

New York, Pocket Books. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0743434188). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. Mason 'Mase' Betha's meteoric rise to fame is one of rap's great success stories, but just as he was poised to sign a multimillion dollar deal with Bad Boy, Mase walked away. He became a pastor, a life changing inspirational speaker of a non-denominational movement called S.A.N.E. ( Saving a nation endangered) ministeries. having turned his back on superstardom, he reveals in this fascinating memoir the rhyme and reason behind his choice to leave a glamorous life of extraordinary wealth and influence to become a pastor with a powerful message for America's youth. Thought provoking and illuminating, the book is an undeniable testament to the enduring power of faith. R1. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 004748

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Religion 0743434188