Revd Professor C. F. D. Moule (Cambridge)
This unusual book is a tour de force. It turns profundities of Christian doctrine into crisp, epigrammatic and sometimes jocular verse, full of imaginative parable and simile; but it is more. Here is the expression of a hard-won, ruthlessly honest personal faith. The terse, well documented commentary that goes with the verse is exactly right, guiding the reader lucidly to the heart of each problem, and suggesting ways of understanding without skirting the difficulties.

CONTENT: Contemporary Creed translates ancient beliefs into today’s language. It is written for those who, like the author, do not find it easy to believe and whose faith is married to doubt, but he points an intelligent pathway through sixty intellectual problems of traditional Christian beliefs. A library of theology books is compressed into this novel and popular mini-course on modern Christianity, in transparent English, without jargon. Original verse helps animates old truths and solve their difficulties.

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Title:Contemporary Creed: A mini-course in Christianity for today

Author: John Morris

Published by: O-Books

Price: £5.99 or $14.95

ISBN: 1905047371

Available through all good bookshops, or online from Amazon or the publisher’s website.

Published by O-Books, price £5.99 or $14.95

All royalties go to the charity: Equipment for Disabled Children.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publishers.

The rights of John Morris as author have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

AUTHOR: John Morris, MA, M.Ed, PGCE, PhD, was a teacher and lecturer for over thirty years before being ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1995.

Commendation by
the Archbishop of York
Sentamu Ebor
We need books to bridge the gap between belief and unbelief, between the Church and the enquirer who cannot find the entrance and, for that matter, between the pulpit and the pew. This book does it. It is not a casual read. It presumes that the reader has already wrestled with some of those metaphysical enigmas which have dogged human beings from time immemorial. It requires a basic familiarity with the Bible. John Morris mixes deep digging with devotion and flights of fancy. He is thinking aloud. My hunch is that many will find it to be a companion on the journey: challenging but not threatening, for it will articulate some of their own thoughts and offer some new ones. CONTEMPORARY CREED deserves to be read slowly and carefully, lest its hidden depths go overlooked. It would be good for discussion in groups or by couples, or as a personal manual of Christian instruction. John Morris taught me when I was a young man and I am delighted to see that he has lost none of his insight, none of his passion, none of his questing. I commend this book.

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