Never Good at Maths is a collection of contrasts and voices, ruminating on the everyday, our global, and personal passions. Except Maths. (Spoiler Alert) Kate Maxwell’s passion for Maths is not a topic explored in any tangible way. But her poems are delicate and gritty, whimsical, sharp, even if decidedly unnumeric. She paints pictures and tells stories in ever-changing tones and voices. At times satirical or lighthearted, and then deeply moving and personal, many of the poems resonate wit...

This collection of poems aims to introduce the reader to the richness of birds and the need to care for their world. The poems bring to life their beauty, their song and the intriguing and sometimes funny behaviours as well as their remarkable skills, especially in nest building. The poems are presented in a loose semblance of order beginning with the signifier poem, Unbounded Air, followed by the shorebird poems noting the urgent need to address their threatened habitat. This environmenta...

At long last, the Puritan most often reached for is finally gathered in full.For generations, Thomas Watson’s works have been beloved, quoted, and reprinted in fragments, yet never collected in a definitive edition. This seven-volume set rectifies that omission, bringing together Watson’s published writings in a uniform, carefully edited, and eminently usable form for the church today.Watson is that rare combination: simple enough for the newest reader, wei...

The Complete Works of the First Fathers of the Church gathers a formative body of early Christian writing: pastoral epistles, martyrial exhortations, apologies, theological treatises, biblical interpretation, ecclesiastical histories, and visionary instruction. Spanning the generations from the apostolic age to late antiquity, it records Christianity's emergence within Jewish, Greek, and Roman intellectual worlds. Particularly compelling are its defenses of Christian belief before pagan cr...

****This collection has been meticulously reproduced from the original. It is NOT produced from an OCR copy - it is a true 100% word by word copy (English, Greek, Hebrew) of the original.The built-in table of contents includes links down to each verse in all four of the gospels! This is the ultimate e-version of Aquinas' majestic work.****St. Thomas Aquinas' Catena Aurea is the masterpiece anthology of Patristic commentary on the Gospels and includes the work of over eighty...

The Complete Works of St. Augustine gathers the writings of one of late antiquity's most influential Christian thinkers, encompassing theological treatises, sermons, letters, biblical expositions, polemical works, and the autobiographical masterpiece Confessions. Across these genres Augustine joins classical rhetoric to Christian doctrine, probing memory, time, desire, sin, grace, language, and the nature of the Church. His prose can be intimate and lyrical, as in Confessions, or rigorousl...

Augustine's writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. His many important works include The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and Confessions.His masterpieces has spawned innumerable other books and articles since. Later philosophers and theologians have been deeply influenced by The City of God, with its impact being felt from literatu...

The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus PREFACE. This volume, containing the equivalent of three volumes of the Edinburgh series of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, will be found a library somewhat complete in itself. The Apostolic Fathers and those associated with them in the third generation, are here placed together in a handbook, which, with the inestimable Scriptures, supplies a succinct autobiography of the Spouse of Christ for the first two centuries. No Christian scholar has ever be...

John Calvin was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have s...

The "Stations of the Cross" also referred to as the "Way of The Cross" are a series of fourteen pictures, paintings or carvings that portray the events along Christ's journey in his final hours from his condemnation by Pontias Pilate to his body being laid in the tomb.The devotion is believed to have begun with St Francis of Assisi and is observed throughout the world by Catholics who commemorate the journey made by Jesus in his final hours.It can be prayed at any time duri...

John Calvin's first commentary published in 1500 containing his most important theological views."It would not be possible for me too earnestly to press upon you the importance of reading the expositions of that prince among men, John Calvin..." - Charles H. Spurgeon"I affirm that he excels beyond comparison in the interpretation of Scripture, and that his commentaries ought to be more highly valued than all that is handed down to us by the Library of the Fathers; so that I...

Thomas Watson was an English Puritan preacher in the 17th century. Watson was also a prolific writer and his devotionals are still well read today. This edition of A Body of Divinity includes a table of contents.