Books written by Richard Harries

The Image of Christ in Modern Art

... in the Desert (Herbert 110 Evening Study from Scarp (Adams) 112 The Exodus (Chagall) 37 The Feast of the Tabernacles (Chagall) 32 The Flight to Egypt (Mynheer) 136 Fool and Flower (Collins) 40 The Golden Crucifixion (Adams) 115, ...

After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Elliot Wolfson begins by saying that imaginative attempts to conceive God in embodied terms is not the same as idolatry. The forbidding of images does not mean forbidding imaginative attempts to grasp God in human terms.

The Beauty and the Horror: Searching For God In A Suffering World

J. Gibson (London: Macmillan, 1976), p. 150. 9 G. B. Caird, Paul's Letters from Prison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 70. 10 A number of key themes in my own book find consummate expression in Marilynne Robinson's trilogy.

Art and the Beauty of God: A Christian Understanding

British bishop argues for a distinctively Christian approach to art.

The Image of Christ in Modern Art

In this highly illustrated book, Richard Harries looks at some of the artists associated with the birth of modernism such as Epstein and Rouault as well as those with a highly distinctive understanding of religion such as Chagall and ...

The Passion in Art

This is the first book to consider the Passion as portrayed in the whole sweep of Christian history. Each picture is considered both from the point of view of its context and its theological standpoint.

Haunted by Christ: Modern Writers and the Struggle for Faith

. . These are some of the great poets and novelists whose struggles with faith find expression in their works, and who demonstrate the fascinatingly different forms that faith can take in different times and places.

Questioning Belief

Here are brilliant reflections on issues of power politics, human rights, birth control, the welfare system, and business ethics - all of them written with the verve and incisiveness for which Richard Harries is so well known.

In the Gladness of Today

Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, is one of the most popular of the 'Thought for the Day' speakers and he has been a regular contributor since 1972. Here is a collection of sixty sharp, pithy 'Thoughts' -- many of them profound and moving.

God Outside the Box: Why Spiritual People Object to Christianity

In 'God Outside the Box', Richard Harries takes seriously thoughts and criticisms such as these and answers them in detail. "Bishop Harries believes that "Christianity has within its treasure store enormous spiritual riches".

Moral Tension: God and Our Decisions

"All our decisions, from the smallest to the most significant, have a moral dimension"--Provided by publisher.

Hearing God in Poetry: Fifty Poems for Lent and Easter

Hearing God in Poetry is a lovely Lent book for 2022 from Richard Harries, that reflects on how some of the best-loved poems in the English language communicate a sense of God's presence.

Questions of Life and Death: Christian Faith And Medical Intervention

This book, by a major author in this area, throws light on key Life and Death issues such as fertility research and treatment, and assisted suicide.

The Artful Codgers cogitations

An anthology by a collective of four performance poets of differing styles, experience, and philosophies.

Faith in Politics?: Rediscovering the Christian Roots in Our Political Values (NEW Edition For 2015)

These values, such as the rule of law, democracy and human rights, are deeply grounded in a Christian understanding of what it is to be a human being in society.This is a new edition with a substantial new introduction of the book first ...

Seeing God in Art: The Christian Faith in 30 Images

A sequence of insightful meditations evoking the essence of Christianity, depicted in some of the world's great paintings.

Prayer and the Pursuit of Happiness

Awakening

After a decade of performing sharply focused observational, protest and war poetry Richard has gathered together a collection of his best known work which is as fresh on the page as it is on the stage.

What Christians Believe

Reinhold Niebuhr Reconsidered