24%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
Francis Spufford
€ 14.99
€ 11.41
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
Paperback. Offering a realistic account of the bits of our lives advertising agencies prefer to ignore, this book is suitable for believers who are fed up with being patronised, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, and for anyone who feels there is something indefinably wrong, and literalistic. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
'Passionate, challenging, tumultuously articulate . . . Fascinating.' John Carey, Sunday Times
'A wonderful, effortlessly brilliant book.' Evening Standard
'A rare gem, a book that carries conviction by being honest all the way through.' John Gray, Independent
Unapologetic is a book for those curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century.
But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)?
It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571225224
SKU
V9780571225224
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1997), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays about the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. His second, The ... Read more
Reviews for Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
A unique book, cutting its way ruthlessly through thickets of both religious and anti-religious sentimentality; painfully funny at points, always impassioned and never glib. Rowan Williams, Master, Magdalene College, Cambridge University and former Archbishop of Canterbury Spufford has the great virtue of making the reader want to argue with him, while simultaneously yearning to hear more. Daily Telegraph Remarkable, passionate, ... Read more