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The Book of Jonah is the one book in the Bible to which Jesus refers as revealing his own understanding of his mission: 'I give you one sign, the sign of Jonah.' With Jonah Jesus reveals his own mind and plan, and ties his life and work firmly to the tradition of Israel, and Israel's task of making the Lord God known to the world. This book is written on several levels. It is first of all a verse by verse commentary on the Book of Jonah, with a short prologue on how to read the Bible as parable - always and everywhere true but not using the modern criteria for truth, that is history and science.It also draws from the traditions of Jewish commentary and liturgical life. While being a thoughtful and careful commentary, it makes no claims to exhaustive exegesis or higher critical methodology. It offers, rather, a work of biblical spirituality, more akin to a Christian midrash, than biblical theology. Jesus' sign of Jonah is in fact the sacrifice which both Jonah and Jesus make of their lives in order to save the nations (Gentiles), and this book presents a self-consciousness of Jesus as the anointed High Priest (the older priestly Messiah rather than the later kingly one). It explores the sacrifice on the cross as the liturgy of the high priest on the Day of Atonement - but, again like Jonah - a sacrifice for the nations. At the heart of the argument is the belief that the 'best' Christianity is one that is engaged in loving and respectful Mission - God's mission - just as the best of Israel's life is when it is spent in accomplishing the Mission of God as the Suffering Servant of the Lord.Peter Burrows is a retired priest of the Diocese of Plymouth living and working with the Society of African Missions in London. Born in Los Angeles, California, he studied theology at Harvard, and received a Ph.D. in Rabbinic and Biblical Literature from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has a post-graduate degree in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy and was licensed to practise as a Marriage, Family and Child Therapist by the State of California, working for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as a Family Therapist. He has lectured in Scripture and Psychology at seminaries, colleges and universities and in many parishes and synagogues throughout the United States and Britain. He lectures and offers retreats to clergy and laity in Sacred Scripture in the United Kingdom.

Amidst the confusion and doubt that the contemporary world casts on our Christian witness, a return to the Gospel brings clarity and a sure foundation. In the Gospel of Luke we find a model for the Church, a model equally valid for each generation. Well known for his teaching and preaching skills, Ivan Clutterbuck invites us to study the Gospel of Luke as a whole. Working through the text from start to finish we understand the full implications of how Jesus preached and organised his kingdom. In this Gospel guide we are provided with the latest balanced scholarship on Luke's writing in an accessible form. The last thirty years have seen a new concentration on the historical person of Jesus that has overturned much of the speculative biblical criticism of the past that seemed to undermine faith itself. Only by concentrating on the teaching and ministry of Jesus, so clearly set out by Luke, do we find the bedrock of the Christian message. Ivan Clutterbuck has been a priest of the Church of England for over sixty years. He has served both as an army and naval chaplain and has taught in several public schools. From 1966-74 he was Organising Secretary of the Church Union.

The thoughts contained in this book were from the pen of one who, in the silence of the Charterhouse, had already arrived at the summits of the spiritual heights, and dwelt there unceasingly. Souls who have reached such perfection in this life are rare; not so rare, however, are those who ardently aspire thereto. It is chiefly for such as these - to encourage and help them to arrive at those same heights - that these thoughts have been preserved and collected.They Speak by Silences was first published in French in 1948, and has since allowed Carthusian wisdom and spirituality to reach the widest possible audience. This new, and widely requested edition carries on the tradition. It will provide material for daily reading and reflection for newcomers to Carthusian spirituality and, equally, for those who have already discovered the riches it has to offer.Not everyone can experience that same recollection that exists in a Charterhouse, but they must not be afraid to set aside as far as possible at least some moments, however short, for recollection and to give some time to Him Who is within them. It is in that silence that He speaks to us, and bids us listen to Him.Other books of classic Carthusian spirituality published by Gracewing include The Call of Silent Love, The Prayer of Love and Silence and The Wound of Love.

What is Carthusian life really like?What actually goes on in a Charterhouse?Is the Order's ancient mixture of carefully regulated solitary and community life a hoepless harking back to the Middle Ages, or is it relevant to modern lifestyles and problems?If any book can answer these questions, it is The Wound of Love.It provides background information on the Carthusian Order, including letters from St Bruno, its founder, and a reflection on Bruno's continuing significance today. The many concerns of Carthusian life are evident here: solitude, fraternal love, prayer, monastic vows, work and lirturgy, and each is tackled with great honesty, wit and wisdom.This book is testimony to how much there is to be learned about life 'in' the world from the Carthusians' standpoint 'outside' it. While the Carthusian call to find God always and everywhere is essentially the same vocation as that of all Christians, there is an intensity about the monastic life which distils the message and makes it more fiery, more compelling. This book will prove a bracing brew for all those who would sample it.Other books of Carthusian spirituality published by Gracewing include The Call of Silent Love, The Prayer of Love and Silence, and They Speak by Silences.

In 1858 Our Lady appeared to Bernadette, a girl of fourteen, the eldest of the four children of Louise and Francois Soubirous, a miller who had fallen on hard times. The first apparition was on Thursday February 11th, the last on Friday July 16th. Bernadette saw the Blessed Virgin in a grotto at Massabielle, near Lourdes, a little Frnech township at the foot of the Pyrenees that is now one of the most important centres of pilgrimage in the Christian world. On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in the Holy Year of 1933 Bernadette was herself canonized.In this highly readable book, Hugh Ross Williamson helps us to explore St Bernadette's life and, becoming familiar with the time and place in which she lived, understand her Challenge - to those amongst whom she lived and to us today.

Satirist, humorist, Church of England vicar, and convert to RomanCatholicism, Edward Caswall (1814-1878) was one of the nineteenthcentury's most important hymnologists - posterity is indebted to himfor both his original and translated hymns, including 'See, amid thewinter's snow', 'Jesu, the very thought of thee', and 'At the Cross'. Hewas, moreover, the faithful financial and administrative mainstay ofNewman's Oratory in Birmingham from the time of his conversion in1847 until his death some thirty years later.This new biography of Edward Caswall is the first systematic investigationof the life and work of a man whose spiritual journey, fromAnglicanism via Tractarianism to Roman Catholicism, exemplifies thepersonal and theological dilemmas experienced by many during thatera. Based on extensive archival research, it will be welcomed byreaders interested in Newman, nineteenth-century hymnody andpoetry, and Victorian history.An important contribution to Newman studies.GERARD TRACEY, late archivist of the Birmingham OratoryNancy de Flon steers the reader through the fascinating family backgroundand Oxford years of her subject and does much to explain Caswall's owndistinctive path to Rome before treating his fruitful Oratorian years . . . theparticular strength of de Flon's study, however, is the extent to which shefocuses on and draws out Caswall's outstanding literary, poetical, anddevotional genius. PETER NOCKLESNancy de Flon earned her Ph.D. in Church History from UnionTheological Seminary in New York. Now an editor for Paulist Press,Nancy de Flon was formerly Visiting Professor of Church History atUnion Seminary and Adjunct Professor of Church History at LongIsland's Immaculate Conception Seminary. She has also taught at theCentre for Marian Studies at Lampeter in mid-Wales.