Religion & Theology from Ariel Books

Dunedin, NZ: New Zealand Tablet, 1969. Baxter's comment on his Catholic faith. CONDITION Card wraps, 190 pages. Nice copy internal with damp stain to spine and along top of cover causing short split at spine heel.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 1974. "New Zealand missionaries have been variously painted as heroes, villains, or figures of fun; and in this portrait of the origins of the Wesleyan mission at Whangaroa in the 1820s." CONDITION Grey bds (unworn, spine a little faded) 192 pages with illus plates and 1 map. Newspaper book reviews laid in. Nice crisp… Read more about this item

Wellington, New Zealand: Archdiocese of Wellington, 1981. Describes the building of Te Rangimarie Roman Catholic Church on Tawhiti a Maru marae. Signed with a personal inscription with many thanks Jim, inside front. CONDITION Green card wraps, 158 pages with maps and photo illus (some in colour). Spine a bit faded, crease to bottom front cnr cover, moderately handled with odd… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City, USA: Greg Kofford Books, 2014. Looks at the appeal of Mormonism for the Maori of New Zealand from its first introduction to them in the 1880s and the reasons for its continuing success. It discusses the impact of an American religion on its Maori converts and their culture over the last 130 years. CONDITION Softcover, 223 pages… Read more about this item

Christchurch, New Zealand: Cadsonbury Publications, 2010. 2nd revised edition. "The essay draws attention to the perplexity and social restlessness that strikes critically at the emotions of any indigenous people who are confronted with pressures to adapt too rapidly to new ways, new morals, new attitudes, and new technologies. ... The corolly of my thesis is that the phenomenon of Hauhauism… Read more about this item

Auckland, New Zaland : Raupo, 1991. Robert Maunsell was one of New Zealand's most influential early missionaries. He spent thirty years as Superintendent of the Church Missionary Society's work in the Waikato where he established three missions and became expert in Maori. He translated the Old testament into Maori and developed boarding schools for Maori children. CONDITION 321 pages illus… Read more about this item

Auckland, New Zealand: Bridget Williams, 2020. Anglicanism, brought to New Zealand by English missionaries in 1814, was made widely known by Maori evangelists, as iwi adapted the religion to make it their own. The ways in which Mihinare (Maori Anglicans) engaged with the settler Anglican Church in New Zealand and created their own unique Church casts light on the broader… Read more about this item

Dunedin, New Zealand: Foreign Missions Committee PCNZ, 1918. History of the Presbyterian missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) which included Tonga. Written to mark 50 years of Missionary work in the islands.CONDITION Brown card wraps with Black titles, Pp 195 v with numerous half tone photo illus of islanders and missionaries, 5 maps and some tradional musical scores. Copy is… Read more about this item

Boston, USA: Scriptural Tract Repository, 1890. Pamphlet, whip stitched, 29 pages paginated 193 - 222. Cover stated Number 30 Winter 1890, Marshall Bros London Agents. Copy is mostly bright and clean with atmospheric toning mainly on covers.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Auckland, New Zealand: BTI Book Room , 1935. Noted Irish Methodist Minister. Not Dated NZNB states 1920s whilst his obituatary tipped inside cover states he toured New Zealand in 1933 and again in 1935. CONDITION Red card wraps, 24 pages, stapled have been removed, new spine tape and whip stitching to preserve. Rubbed top front where name has been erased,… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: The Phoenix Press , 1935. Not Dated c1930. An address delivered at the Sovereign Grace Meeting, YMCA London November 1931, originally published in the Bible Quarterley. CONDITION 20 pages, stapled have been removed and neatly whip stitched too preserve leaving rust marks, some atmospheric staining.. Pamphlet. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Stanley Martin & Co , 1925. Sermon published posthumously. Archibald Geikie Brown (1844-1922) was a Calvinistic Baptist minister; a student, friend, and associate of Charles Spurgeon; and from 1908 to 1911, pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. CONDITION Pamphlet with blue paper wraps, 16 pages. Staples have been removed and spine whip stitched to preserve, crease to rear… Read more about this item

London: Pickering & Inglis, 1930. Not Dated c1930. Pamphlet, 32 pages, mostly nice with a couple of type setters corrections, rust mark at spine where staples were (have been removed and whip stitched at spine to preserve).. 3rd Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Cincinatti, USA: God's Revivalist Office A sermon preached July 1906, Battle Creek Michigan. Not Dated, illus grey card wraps, 32 pages. Later spine tape and whip stitching to preserve. Bright and clean copy, with another broadsheet sermon tipped in at rea entitiled A Terrible Reality reprint of a Sermon by G(eorge) Gordon Macleod given at Carnwath Scotland. He was… Read more about this item

London: W Stewart , 1894. Not dated Scottish Author was a noted secularist thinker. CONDITION Blue pebble cloth with bright gilt titles, decorative end papers, Pp v [2] 4-252 [16 page publishers list at rear], Pp vi 253-512 with same 16 page list bound in at rear,. Note incorrect pagination at start Vol 1 as printed. Bds are… Read more about this item

London: T Nelson & Sons , 1873. Story of strange cultural practices and drug taking are allegories with a clear moral code, but written in a natural realistic way. CONDITION Half bound with brown leather spine and cnrs, partial split to leather at spine head, purple cloth bds gilt stamped to front 'Public Library Otago New Zealand with library… Read more about this item

Mainz, Germany : Antonii Boetzeri , 1618. Summa de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Principles in Latin. Part 1 are Virtues, Part 2 are Vices. Original Vellum wraps, Pp 48 Prolog, Pt 1, Pp 404 plus 12 page index, Pt 2, Pp 346 plus 7 page index. CONDITION Very good for age, all present, a few insect pin holes along bottom edge… Read more about this item

London: Scientologists International, 1958. 41 case histories into re-incarnation from the Fifth London Advanced Clinical Course held in October-November, 1958. CONDITION Red pebble cloth with bright gilt title, Pp 183. Copy is very bright and crisp with dust spotting to eps. DJ has shelf wear and some chips.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read more about this item

Brescia, Italy : Apud Societatum Brixiensem , 1602. Memorial of Carlo Borromeo who was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VII as Bishop of Ugento1537, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul III as Bishop of Pozzuoli.He served as Bishop of Pozzuoli until his death in 1540. DESCRIPTION Each Separately numbered, Liber Memorialis [1603] pp 228… Read more about this item

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1861. Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644) Francis Quarles was a seventeenth century poet who was a cupbearer to the future Queen Elizabeth and subsequently secretary to James Usher he was most famous for this emblem book originally published in 1635. It is a series of paraphrases from the Bible expressed in ornate and metaphorical language,… Read more about this item