Giver of Life: The Holy Spirit in the Creed and the Christian life today by Jane Williams (SPCK, £15.99 (£14.39); 978-0-281-09122-5).

“In Giver of Life, renowned theologian Jane Williams leads you into a deeper understanding of the Holy Spirit's vital role in Christian thought and in the lives of all who follow Jesus today. Through a thoughtful exposition of the Nicene Creed, Williams traces the rich theology behind the Spirit's titles and explores the deep connection between the Spirit and the life of Christ.”


You Can, If You Want To: Navigating Christian faith, conscience, and matters LGBTQ+ by James Alison (Bloomsbury, £17.99 (£16.19); 978-1-399-42299-4).

“This luminous and rigorous book dismantles the fear-based binaries which have dominated conversations in the Church. Striving to address potential concerns about accepting LGBTQ+ individuals within the church, James draws on scripture, tradition and his lived experience to form a broader understanding of faith and humanity.”


Lying and Truthfulness: A Thomistic perspective by Stewart Clem (Cambridge University Press, £22.99 (£20.06); 978-1-009-26138-8). New in paperback

“In this book, Stewart Clem develops an account of truthfulness that is grounded in the Thomistic virtue of veracitas. Unlike most contemporary Christian ethicists, who narrowly focus on the permissibility of lying, he turns to the virtue of truthfulness and illuminates its close relationship to the virtue of justice. This approach generates a more precise taxonomy of speech acts and shows how they are grounded in specific virtues and vices.”

Selected by Frank Nugent, of the Church House Bookshop, which operates the Church Times Bookshop.