Bøger af Ian Adams

Covering cemeteries and burial grounds in each of Ohio’s eighty-eight counties, this coffee-table book focuses on the landscapes, architecture, sculpture, and inscriptions that render cemeteries as fascinating places for contemplation and discovery.

Breathing Deep combines words and images to create a beautiful and profound guide to seeing the world in the power of the resurrection. Ian Adams draws on the Gospel stories of the resurrection of Jesus to create 40 'invitations', each one offering a path for the resurrection to reshape how we live.

Ohio in Photographs is a collection of stunning images that capture the texture of life in the Buckeye State. Two of the region's's leading landscape photographers, Ian Adams and Randall Lee Schieber, present a rich array of places and people from each of Ohio's eighty-eight counties.

In this Advent book with a difference, striking reflections and images combine to teach us to discover light in dark times, open ourselves to the possibility of newness and to become bearers of light ourselves.

Being a hopeful human being today is a demanding task. Taunts and temptations face us on every side. In a series of striking meditations accompanied by photographic images, Wilderness Taunts equips us to face them. Drawing on the Gospel accounts of Jesus' 40 days of testing in the wilderness, it names and explores the taunts we face now, the critical and challenging messages from without and within that may throw us off balance. Ian Adams encourages us to listen attentively to these taunts, and to hear in them deeper questions about life, love and faith. He looks beyond their accusations to show them as gifts that invite us to better understand who we are, and step with confidence into whatever is being called of us.

Ian Adams is one of the most original voices in contemporary Christian spirituality. His poems are short, arresting, richly textured and deceptively simple. The title of this collection, Unfurling, is indicative of what Ian's poetry is about: seeing the world as it truly is, recovering our sense of who we are, and the revelation of the divine.

Politicians still call themselves socialists, conservatives and liberals, but among these groups exist very different understandings of what these terms represent. This new book provides a clear, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the ideas and doctrines that have shaped, and will continue to shape, British politics. -- .

Explores fifty-two spiritual practices to enable us to live with joy, grace and purpose through good and tough times alike and so to bring good to the world around us. These practices draw on ancient wisdom but are rooted in the everyday material of our lives, revealing that any transformation of the world for good must always begin with ourselves.

New monastic communities are emerging here and in the US, many as Fresh Expressions initiatives.This is a basic introduction and guide to today's new monasticism by one of its leading exponents.

Provides an introduction to the lives and ideas of some of the influential figures in Western political thought. This book contains entries which provide an introduction to the major figures and schools of thought that have shaped politics, including: Aristotle, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Mohandas Gandhi, Jurgen Habermas, and others.

Examines the tenets of liberalism, socialism, conservatism, Marxism, anarchism, and fascism. -- .