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New titles just published

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31 March 2017

Encountering Islam: Christian-Muslim relations in the public square by Richard Sudworth (SCM Press, £25 (£22.50); 978-0-334-05518-1).

 

Reproducing Churches by George Lings (BRF, £9.99 (£9); 978-0-85746-464-4).

 

Biblical Literalism: A Gentile heresy by John Shelby Spong (HarperOne, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-0-06-236231-5). New in paperback.

 

Jesus Before the Gospels: How the earliest Christians remembered, changed, and invented their stories of the saviour by Bart Ehrman (HarperOne, £13.99 (£12.60); 978-0-06-228522-5). New in paperback.

 

Paradise Lost: A drama of unintended consequences: How to read John Milton’s poem in the 21st century by Duncan Baxter (Matador, £9.99 (£9); 978-1-78589-902-7).

 

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