Books written by Samuel Wells
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Living Without Enemies: Being Present in the Midst of Violence
In this book she and Samuel Wells offer deep insights into what it takes to overcome powerlessness, transcend fear and engage in radical acceptance in our dangerous world.
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The Bright Field: Readings, reflections and prayers for Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity and Ordinary Time
Covering the liturgical year outside Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter, this collection of reflections, readings, poems and prayers focuses on the life and ministry of Jesus _ the rich subject matter of the lectionary readings during ...
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For Good: The Church and the Future of Welfare
Soho United is a local football club that encourages dads and their sons to spend time together, offers some a chance to be scouted by West Bromwich Albion, and helps many more to enjoy regular exercise. Animal Encounters is a more ...
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Introducing Christian Ethics
The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. For comparative religious ethics, see Charles Mathewes, Matthew Puffer, and Mark Storslee, eds, Comparative Religious Ethics (Routledge, 2016), ...
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Introducing Christian Ethics
This highly successful text has been thoughtfully updated, based on considerable feedback, to include increased material on Catholic perspectives, further case studies and the augmented use of introductions and summaries Uniquely redefines ...
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Transforming Fate into Destiny: The Theological Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas
He agrees that the Christian story is at the heart of the Church's practice. Yet he goes beyond Hauerwas. He draws attention to the neglect, in narrative ethics, of the way the Church's story ends.
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How Then Shall We Live?: Christian Engagement with Contemporary Issues
This book will serve many of us well who live with daily perplexities that admit no resolution.” —Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
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Be Not Afraid: Facing Fear with Faith
This book is so directly addressed to the reader's heart and mind, so precisely on target about the fears that ensnare us, that Wells comes across not as a distant thinker but as a wise, understanding, and compassionate friend.
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The Heart Of It All: The Bible's Big Picture
In The Heart of It All, the Canterbury Press Lent book for 2020, Samuel Wells simplifies the Bible's complexity and presents the entire sweep of its narrative in eighteen key themes.
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A Cross in the Heart of God: Reflections on the death of Jesus
The Canterbury Press Lent book for 2021 focuses on the significance of the story at the very centre of Christianity: the crucifixion.
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The Heart Of It All: The Bible's Big Picture
The Last Day has as its astonished spectators the whole of creation from Genesis to the maps. But the day I'm going to tell you about had almost no one to witness it. Early in the morning, depending on which gospel you read, ...
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Power and Passion
Samuel Wells vividly paints the stories surrounding Jesus’ cross and resurrection.
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Power and Passion: Six Characters in Search of Resurrection
Samuel Wells shows how the characters in the Holy Week story face choices and experience feelings very similar to our own.
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Joining the Angels' Song: Eucharistic Prayers for Sundays and Holy Days, Years A, B & C
For everyone who loves liturgy and its ability to empower the people of God, here is an invaluable collection of material that will bring a new joy and energy to Eucharistic worship.
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What Episcopalians Believe: An Introduction
The book is an attempt to portray what all parties have in common. The book comes in four parts: The Faith Sources of the Faith The Order of the Faith The Character of the Faith
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A Nazareth Manifesto: Being with God
Second, I wrote, with Marcia Owen, a book called Living Without Enemies (Downers Grove: IVP, 2011) in which I mapped my initial reflections in this field onto Marcia's remarkable ministry among those affected by gun violence in Durham, ...
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Christian Ethics: An Introductory Reader
This book is enlightening and potentially transformative.
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Introducing Christian Ethics
This highly successful text has been thoughtfully updated, based on considerable feedback, to include increased material on Catholic perspectives, further case studies and the augmented use of introductions and summaries Uniquely redefines ...
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A Cross in the Heart of God: Reflections on the death of Jesus
The Canterbury Press Lent book for 2021 focuses on the significance of the story at the very centre of Christianity: the crucifixion.
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A Nazareth Manifesto: Being with God
What flows from this is a different way of understanding our relationships with each other and with God.