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© The Society of Saint Francis 1996 - 2006
Book Reviews Index in order of Author of book title
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How to find your Vocation
ISBN 1 85311 416 2,
Canterbury Press, 2002, £7.99
Reviewed May 2005
The Mystery of Faith An Introduction to the Teaching and Spirituality of the Orthodox Church
ISBN 0 232 52472 6
DLT, London, 2002, £12.95
Reviewed January 2004
Faith beyond Resentment: fragments catholic and gay
ISBN 0 232 52411 4
DLT, London, 2001, £10.95
Reviewed September 2002
Angela of Foligno,
The Visions, Revelations and Teachings of Angela of Foligno; Selected & Modernised by Margaret Gallyon
ISBN 1 898595 33 X
Alpha Press, Brighton, 2000, £12.95
Reviewed May 2001
(Archbishop Anthony Bloom)
Meditations on a Theme A spiritual journey
ISBN 0 8264 7255 9
Continuum, 2003, £7.99
Reviewed May 2005
Ashwin, Angela
Woven into Prayer: A flexible pattern of daily prayer through the Christian Year
ISBN 185311247X
Canterbury Press Norwich, 1999, £12.99
Reviewed January 2000
Austin SSF, (with Nicholas Alan SSF, and Tristam SSF - Editors),
A Sense of the Divine A Franciscan
Reader for the Christian Year
ISBN 1 85311 381 6
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2001, £18.99
Reviewed January 2003
Baggley, John
Festival Icons of the Christian Year
ISBN 0 264 67488 X
Mowbray, Oxford, 1999, £16.99
Reviewed January 2001
Jacob and the Prodigal How Jesus Retold Israel's Story
ISBN 1 84101 358 7
BRF, Oxford, 2003, £12.99
Reviewed May 2005
Barrington Ward, Simon (and Ramon SSF)
Praying the Jesus Prayer Together
ISBN 1 84101 147 9
BRF, London, 2001,
£6.99
Reviewed September 2002
Eve's Pilgrimage A Woman's Quest
for the City of God
ISBN 0 8601 2323 5
Burns and Oates, London, 2002
Reviewed January 2003
Beeson, Trevor
Rebels and Reformers
ISBN 0 334 02792 6
SCM Press, London, 1999, £12.99
Reviewed May 2001
The Language of Silence - The Changing Face of Monastic Solitude
ISBN 0 232 52468 8
DLT, London, 2003, £9.95
Reviewed January 2005
Words of Spirituality -Towards a Lexicon of the Inner Life
ISBN 0 281 05456 8
SPCK, London, 2002, £8.99
Reviewed January 2005
(Metropolitan Anthony)
Meditations on a Theme A spiritual journey
ISBN 0 8264 7255 9
Continuum, 2003, £7.99
Reviewed May 2005
Burnham, Andrew (compiler)
A Manual of Anglo-Catholic Devotion
ISBN 1 85311 354 9
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2000, £18.99
Reviewed May 2001
Burns, Stuart K (with John H Darch)
Saints on Earth: A Biographical Companion to Common Worship
ISBN 0 7151 4036 1
Church House Publishing, London, 2004, £20.00
Reviewed September 2005
God - Thoughts in an age of Uncertainty
ISBN 0 8264 5169 1
Continuum, London, 2001, £16.99
Reviewed January 2003
Caddick, Jeremy (with Duncan Dormor and Jack McDonald - Editors )
Anglicanism: the Answer to Modernity
ISBN 0 8264 6699 0
Continuum, London and New York, 2003, £14.99
Reviewed September 2004
The King's Highway
ISBN 0 85191 039 4
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2001, £8.99
Reviewed May 2002
Carthusian Monk, A
Carthusian Novice Conferences: The Freedom of Obedience
ISBN 0 232 52278 2
DLT, London, 1998, £9.95
Reviewed January 2001
Chapman, Raymond
A Pastoral Prayer Book
ISBN 1 85311 220
8
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 1998, £10.99
Reviewed January 2001
Chapman, Raymond
Leading Intercessions
ISBN 0-264-67488-X
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2000, £10.99
Reviewed January 2001
Francis of Assisi
SBN 0-8264-5421-6
Continuum, London, 2001, £9.99
Reviewed May 2002
Cirino, Andre OFM (and Gallant, Laurent OFM)
The Geste of the Great King Office of
the Passion of Francis of Assisi
ISBN 1-57659-175-1
Franciscan Institute St. Bonaventure University, NY, 2001, $14.95
Reviewed January 2003
Cocksworth, Christopher (and Alan Wilkinson)
An Anglican Companion Words from the heart of faith
ISBN 0-281-05359-6 (SPCK) 0-7151-3785-9 (CHP)
SPCK & CHP, London,1996 & 2001, £8.99
Reviewed January 2002
Soft Blows the Wind
On Foot to Walsingham
ISBN 0 85244 569 5
Gracewing, 2003, £7.99
Reviewed September 2005
From Inquisition to Freedom Seven prominent Catholics & their struggle with the Vatican
ISBN 0-8264-5415-1
Continuum, London, 2001, £12.99
Reviewed May 2002
Common Praise
A hymn book to accompany Common Worship
ISBN 1-85311-264-X (full music) £19.99
1-85311-265-8 (melody) £11.99
1-85311-266-6 (hardback, words only) £8.99
1-85311-267-4 (limp, words only) £6.99
Canterbury Press Norwich, 2000
Reviewed May 2001
Common Worship: Collects and Postcommunions
ISBN 0 7157 2088 3
Church House Publishing, 2004, £25
Reviewed May 2005
Living the Eucharist Affirming Catholicism and the Liturgy
ISBN 1-232-52421-1
DLT, London, 2001, £10.95
Reviewed January 2002
On This Rock Bible Foundations for Christian Living
ISBN 1 84101 238 6
BRF, 2003, £3.99
Reviewed May 2004
Francis: A Saint's Way
ISBN 0-340-78608-6
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001, £10.99
Reviewed September 2002
Journey to the Inner Mountain - In the desert with St. Antony
ISBN 0 340 78659 0
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002, £7.99
Reviewed January 2005
Glory: The Spiritual Theology of Michael Ramsey
ISBN 1 85311 535 5
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2003, £16.99
Reviewed May 2005
Darch, John H (with Stuart K Burns)
Saints on Earth: A Biographical Companion to Common Worship
ISBN 0 7151 4036 1
Church House Publishing, London, 2004, £20.00
Reviewed September 2005
A Dictionary of Religious Orders
ISBN 0-860-12314-6
Burns and Oates, London, 2001, £35.00
Reviewed January 2002
The Loving Struggle
ISBN 1-9011-5726-1
St Austin Press, London, 2001, £14.95
Reviewed May 2002
With Empty Hands -The Message of St Thérèse of Lisieux
ISBN 0 860123 21 9
Burns & Oates, London, 2002, £9.99
Reviewed January 2005
Doe, Michael
Seeking the Truth in Love: The Church and Homosexuality
ISBN 0-232-52399-1
DLT, London, 2000, £5.95
Reviewed May 2001
Dormor, Duncan (with Jack McDonald and Jeremy Caddick - Editors)
Anglicanism the Answer to Modernity
ISBN 0 8264 6699 0
Continuum, London and New York, 2003, £14.99
Reviewed September 2004
Harvest for the World A worship anthology on sharing the work of creation
ISBN 1-85311-461-8
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2002, £9.99
Reviewed January 2003
This Poor Sort: A History of the Society of Saint Francis in the European Province
DLT, London, 1997, £19.95
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A Light on my Path: Praying with the Psalms in the Contemporary World
ISBN 1- 85311- 4626
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2002, £12.99
Reviewed May 2003
What Anglicans Believe in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN 0 8264 6539 0
Continuum, London & New York, 2002, £10.99
Reviewed September 2004
Editors: Damian Kirkpatrick SSF, Fr Philip Doherty OFM Conv, Sr Sheelagh O'Flynn FMDM
Joy in all Things A Franciscan Companion
ISBN 1 85311 409 X
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2002, £12.99
Reviewed January 2004
Freeman, Laurence
Jesus the Teacher Within
ISBN 0-8264-1223-8
Continuum, London, 2000, £14.99
Reviewed May 2001
Prayers of Darkness and Light
ISBN 0-9509516-2-7
New World Publications, Reigate, 2001, £4.25
Reviewed May 2002
Dive Deeper: The Human Poetry of Faith
ISBN 0-232-52408-4
DLT, London, 2001, £8.95
Reviewed September 2002
Gallant, Laurent OFM (and Andre Cirino OFM)
The Geste of the Great King
Office of
the Passion of Francis of Assisi
ISBN 1-57659-175-1
Franciscan Institute St. Bonaventure University, NY, 2001, $14.95
Reviewed January 2003
Gallyon, Margaret
The Visions, Revelations and Teachings of Angela of Foligno; Selected & Modernised by Margaret Gallyon
ISBN 1-898595-33-X
Alpha Press, Brighton, 2000, £12.95
Reviewed May 2001
The Music of Praise Through the Church Year with the Great Hymns
ISBN 1 84101 237 8
BRF, Oxford, 2002, £12.99
Reviewed May 2004
Changing Worlds Can the Church respond?
T & T Clark, Ltd. A Continuum Imprint. Edinburgh, 2002 £12.99
Reviewed September 2003
Living the Lord's Prayer
ISBN 1-84101-182-7
BRF, Oxford, 2002, £6.99
Reviewed May 2003
Doors into Prayer - An Invitation
ISBN 0 232 52502 1
DLT, London, 2003, £6.95
Reviewed September 2004
Voices from the Desert A Spirituality for our Times
ISBN 1-85311-491-X
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2002, £7.99
Reviewed January 2004
Images of Jesus
ISBN 08264 6782 2 (paperback)
Continuum, 2002, £9.99
Reviewed January 2004
Habgood, John
Varieties of Unbelief
ISBN 0-232-52320
DLT, London, 2000, £8.95
Reviewed January 2001
Beyond Confirmation
ISBN:1 84101 241 6
BRF, 2003, £6.99
Reviewed January 2005
One Foot in Heaven
ISBN 0-281-05399-5
Triangle SPCK, London, 2001, £7.99
Reviewed January 2003
Multi-Faith Britain - An experiment in worship
ISBN 1 903816 08 4
O Books, Hampshire, UK, 2002, £8.99
Reviewed September 2004
Harvey, Jeremy
Marian Dunlop, Teacher and Healer: Her life glimpsed
ISBN 0-9524424-4-2
George Mann (Internet), 2000, £8.50
Reviewed May 2001
Living the Gospel The Spirituality of St Francis and St Clare
ISBN 1-84101-126-6
BRF, Oxford, 2001, £5.99
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Reviewed January 2002
The Lindisfarne Icon St Cuthbert and the 21st Century Christian
ISBN 1 84101322 6
BRF, Oxford, 2004, £6.99
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Reviewed May 2005
Henry, Patrick (Editor)
Benedict’s Dharma Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict
ISBN 0 8264 6193X
Continuum, London & New York, 2002 £12.99
Reviewed September 2003
Hermann, Inger
Born into Violence
ISBN 0-334-02817-5
SCM Press, London, £11.95
Reviewed May 2001
Herrick, Vanessa (and Ivan Mann)
Face Value God in the Place of Encounter
ISBN 0-232-52377-0
DLT London, 2002, £9.95
Reviewed September 2003
What was the Oxford Movement?
ISBN 0-8264-5186-1
Continuum, London, 2002, £12.99
Reviewed September 2003
Unheard Voices
0-232-52427-0
DLT, London, 2001, £12.95
Reviewed May 2002
Holman, Bob
Faith in the Poor
ISBN 0745942377
Lion Books, London, 1998, £7.99
Reviewed January 2000
Francis of Assisi
ISBN 0-7126-6814-4
Pimlico, London, 2001, £12.50
Reviewed September 2002
The Road Through the Desert
ISBN 1-84101-138-X
BRF, Oxford, 2001, £5.99
Reviewed May 2002
Who is This?
0-264-67533-9
Continuum, London, 2001, £9.99
Reviewed May 2002
The House of My Friends - Memories and Reflections
ISBN 0 8264 7062 9
Continuum, London, 2003, £16.99
Reviewed January 2005
The Calling of a Cuckoo: not quite an autobiography
ISBN 0 8264 4991 3
Continuum, London and New York, 2002 £18.99
Reviewed September 2003
Bustling Intermeddler, the Life and Work of Charles James Bromfield
ISBN 0-85244-546-6
Gracewing, Leominster, 2001, £14.99
Reviewed May 2002
Workday Prayers On-the-job meditations for tending your soul
ISBN 0-281-05435-5
SPCK, London, 2001, £8.99
Reviewed January 2002
Kerkhofs, Jan
A Horizon of Kindly Light: A spirituality for those with questions
ISBN 0334027438
SCM Press, London, 1999, £14.95
Reviewed January 2000
Anatomy of Survival
ISBN 0-264-67530-4
Mowbray, London, 2001, £9.99
Reviewed May 2002
Women in Christianity
ISBN 0-8264-5686-3
Continuum, London, 2001, £14.99
Reviewed January 2003
Laboa, J M (Editor)
The Historical Atlas of Eastern and Western Christian Monasticism
ISBN 0 8146 2778 1
The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota, 2003, £55
Reviewed January 2005
Inspiration
ISBN 0-8264-5183-7
Continuum, London, 2001, £18.99
Reviewed January 2003
Saints of God The Flowers of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
ISBN 0 86012 349 9
Burns & Oates, London, New York 2003, £10.99
Reviewed September 2004
Mann, Ivan (and Vanessa Herrick)
Face Value God in the Place of Encounter
ISBN 0-232-52377-0
DLT London, 2002, £9.95
Reviewed September 2003
For Love Alone
ISBN 0-281-05559-9
SPCK, 2003, £7.99
Reviewed May 2004
Priesthood and Society
ISBN 1-85311-4693
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2002, £12.99
Reviewed January 2003
Learning to Dance
ISBN 0-232-52434-3
DLT, London, 2001, £9.95
Reviewed May 2003
McDonald, Jack (with Duncan Dormor and Jeremy Caddick - Editors)
Anglicanism the Answer to Modernity
ISBN 0 8264 6699 0
Continuum, London and New York, 2003, £14.99
Reviewed September 2004
Trevor Huddleston - Turbulent Priest
ISBN 0 864 7123 4
Continuum, London, 2004, £16.99
Reviewed September 2005
In the Beginning there was Darkness
ISBN 0 334 0281 3
SCM Press, London, 2001, £9.95
Reviewed May 2002
Journey to the Holy Mountain - Meditations on Mount Athos
ISBN 0 00711901 1
HarperCollins, London, 2004, £17.99
Reviewed January 2005
Millington, Constance M
‘Whether we be many or few’: A History of the Cambridge/Delhi Brotherhood
ISBN 81 7086 246 9
Asian Trading Corp, Bangalore,1999, £15
Reviewed January 2001
Brothers and Sisters Glimpses of the Cloistered Life
ISBN 0 232 52436 X
Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 2001, £14.95
Reviewed January 2004
Newell, J Philip
The Book of Creation
ISBN 1 85311 241 0
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 1999, £6.99
Reviewed January 2001
Nicholas Alan SSF, Austin SSF, and Tristam SSF (Editors),
A Sense of the Divine A Franciscan
Reader for the Christian Year
ISBN 1 85311 381 6
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2001, £18.99
Reviewed January 2003
Out of the Depths: The Daily Telegraph Meditations
ISBN 0 8264 5399-6
Continuum, London, 2001, £9.99
Reviewed May 2002
God's Lovers in an Age of Anxiety The Medieval English Mystics
ISBN 0-232-52335-5
DLT, London, 2001, £8.95
Reviewed January 2002
Adventures in Prayer
Reflections on St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and St. Thérèse of Lisieux
ISBN 0 8601 2348 0 (paperback)
Burns and Oates, London, 2004, £12.99
Reviewed May 2005
Padfield, Deborah (editor)
Hidden Lives: Stories from the East End by the people of 42 Balaam Street
ISBN 4 900259 04 4
Eastside Community Heritage, London, 1999, £7 (inc. p&p from publisher at Old Town Hall, 29 Broadway,
E5 4BQ)
Reviewed May 2001
Worship
ISBN 0 8264 6856 X
New Century Theology, Continuum, 2003, £14.99
Reviewed September 2004
Traffic in Truth Exchanges between Science and Theology
ISBN 1 85311 360 3
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2000, £4.99
Reviewed January 2002
Pritchard, John How to Pray: a practical handbook
ISBN 0 281 05454 1
SPCK, London, 2002, £9.99
Reviewed May 2003
Literary Companion to the Lectionary: Readings Throughout the Year
ISBN 0 281 05345 6
SPCK, London 2001 £9.99
Reviewed September 2004
Literary Companion for Festivals: Readings for Commemorations Throughout the Year
ISBN 0 281 05560 2
SPCK , London 2003 £14.99
Reviewed September 2004
Information Technology and Cyberspace Extra-connected Living
ISBN 0 232 52397 5
DLT, London, 2001, £8.95
Reviewed January 2003
Interfaith Encounter
ISBN 0 334 02843 4
SCM Press, London, 2001, £14.95
Reviewed May 2002
Sing a New Song: The Christian Vocation
ISBN 1 871552 70 2
Dominican Publications, Norwich, 1999, £10.99
Reviewed January 2002
When they crucified my Lord
ISBN 1 841 01024 3
BRF, London, 1999, £6.99
Reviewed January 2000
A Month with Saint Francis
ISBN 0 281 05272 7
SPCK, London, 1999, £7.99
Reviewed January 2000
Praying the Jesus Prayer Together (with Simon Barrington Ward)
ISBN 1 841 01147 9
BRF, London, 2001, £6.99
(price at publication
of review)
Reviewed September 2002
Common Worship Psalms and Canticles,
simply pointed for singing.
ISBN 0 9534826 5 7
Sarum College Press, 2005, £11.95 (Accompaniments for the tones are also available at £1.25)
Reviewed September 2005
God's Love Alone
ISBN 0 8264 7020 3
Continuum, English translation 2003, £8.99
Reviewed January 2004
Journeying with God A Exploration of Ignatian Spirituality
ISBN 0 7162 0549 1
Epworth Press, Peterborough, 2001, £9.95
Reviewed September 2002
The Dignity of Difference How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
ISBN 0 8264 6397 5:
Continuum, London and New York, 2002 £10.99
Reviewed January 2004
Short, William J OFM
Poverty and Joy
ISBN 0 232 52269 3
DLT, London, 1999, £8.95
Reviewed January 2000
Rowan Williams: An Introduction
ISBN 0 232 52490 4
DLT, London, 2003, £7.95
Reviewed May 2004
Wayfaring: A Gospel Journey into Life
ISBN 0 232 52403 3
DLT, London, 2001, £9.95
Reviewed September 2002
Soul Space: Making a Retreat in the Christian Tradition
ISBN 0 281 05317 0
SPCK, London, 2002, £9.99
Reviewed January 2005
At Sea with God
ISBN 0 232 52438 6
DLT, London, £8.95, 2003
Reviewed May 2005
Living the Wisdom of St Francis
ISBN 0 281 05491 6
SPCK London, 2001, £8.99
Reviewed September 2002
St George - Patron Saint of England
ISBN 0 281 05415 0
Triangle, London, 2002, £7.99
Reviewed September 2002
Stebbing, Nicolas, CR (Editor)
Anglican Religious Life - A well kept secret?
ISBN 1 8715 5283 4
Dominican Publications, Dublin, £9.99, 2003
Reviewed January 2005
The Easter God and his Easter People
ISBN 0 8264 6630 3
Continuum, London, 2003, £9.99
Reviewed May 2004
Bernadette of Lourdes Her life, death and visions
ISBN 0 860 12338 3
Burns & Oates, London, 2003
Reviewed May 2005
Tristam SSF, Nicholas Alan SSF and Austin SSF, (Editors),
A Sense of the Divine A Franciscan
Reader for the Christian Year
ISBN 1 85311 381 6
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2001, £18.99
Reviewed January 2003
Son of God
ISBN 0 340 78646 9
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001, £7.99
Reviewed September 2002
Tutu, Desmond
God has a Dream
ISBN 1 844 13237 4
Rider Press, £12.99 hardback; £7.99 paperback
Audiobook on CD:
ISBN 0975263102
Maui Media LLC, 2004, £17.99
Reviewed September 2005
Upjohn, Sheila
Why Julian Now?
ISBN 0 232 52217 0
DLT, London, 1997, £7.99
Reviewed January 2001
Fare Well In Christ
ISBN 0 232 52601 X
DLT, London, £9.95
Reviewed September 2005
Vincent, John
Hope from the City
ISBN 0 7162 0533 5
Epworth Press, Leicester, 2000, £8.95
Reviewed May 2001
Troubled Joy Lincolnshire Psalms
ISBN 0 9526230 3 X
Kenelm Press, Cleethorpes, 2003, £6.20
Reviewed May 2005
Understanding the Qur'an translated from the Dutch by John Bowden
ISBN 0 334 02804 3
SCM Press, London, 2000, £14.95
Reviewed May 2002
Wilkinson, Alan
Christian Socialism: Scott Holland to Tony Blair
ISBN 0 334 02749 7
SCM Press, London, 1998, £14.95
Reviewed May 2001
Wilkinson, Alan (and Christopher Cocksworth)
An Anglican Companion Words from the heart of faith
ISBN 0 281 05359 6 (SPCK) 0 7151 3785 9 (CHP)
SPCK & CHP, London,1996 & 2001, £8.99
Reviewed January 2002
Ponder these Things
ISBN 1 85311 362 X
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2002, £7.99
Reviewed May 2004
God and Caesar: Personal Reflections on Politics and Religion
ISBN 0 8264 7103 X
Continuum, London, 2004, £7.99
Reviewed September 2005
Loved by love Growing into Spiritual Health and Wholeness
ISBN 0 281 05619 6
SPCK, London, 2004, Price £8.99
Reviewed May 2005
Quiet Spaces: Prayer interludes for Busy Women
ISBN 1 84101 339 0
BRF, Oxford, 2003, £5.99
Reviewed September 2004
Poet, Priest and Prophet The life and thought of Bishop John V Taylor
ISBN 0 85169 272 9
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland London 2002 £14.95
Reviewed September 2003
Woodhouse, Patrick
Beyond Words: An introduction, guide and resource for a contemplative way of prayer
ISBN 4 84003 694 5
Kevin Mayhew, London, 2001, £8.99
Reviewed May 2001