About our work ...

Dear Patron of Christian Books Today

Christian Books Today began out of a need to learn about our Faith.

What did our grandparents study?

Our Publisher simply wanted to know more about the Faith being taught from the pulpit. As most of us do, he started reading the books off the Church bookshelves, and when these were done he sought out books from the both Catholic and general Christian bookstores.

But when he wanted something more 'meaty' - theologically speaking - he found himself at St. Paul's University Library. Except, St. Paul's was no typical Seminary Library but a world-renowned storehouse for pre-modern works on not only Catholic topics but general Christian as well, resources for mentally detaching Christianity of modernism in general. Thousands of works that had simply vanished from print, as if they had never contributed to the lives of millions of Christians, although indeed they had forged the minds of the saints.

So he devoured what he could, never able to take any of the texts home, but day by day his view of the Faith broadened.

Of the treasures he found, many he tried to buy through antiquarian booksellers, and of the few he located, these were priced as collectables. One was priced over three thousand pounds!

The first solution was to photocopy the books, which he did for a while.

Then one day he was speaking to a local priest about the knowledge he'd gained on how the Liturgy developed, both good and bad in the new mass. An open-minded priest, he wanted that book to read, too.

Rather than give the Father his only copy, which was admittedly selfish, our Publisher went back to St. Paul's and prepared another copy, for which the Priest was grateful. But then after the homily, one of the parishioners approached and asked for a copy for herself!

How to get the lady her copy is how Christian Books Today was started. To be fair, the name Catholic Books was taken & so this endeavour is named after the Publisher's Son, Christian, hence Christian Books Today.

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Now we reproduce these classics through technology, and sell them at prices the average family can afford. Each book is selected for its contribution to the Faith - so it had to have been widely used or read in the past - and would in turn have the potential to make an impact again. Then the books are digitally reproduced, cleaned up as best as we can and finally we make the book available through our distribution partner, Amazon.

As this is a labour of love, we do hope that every title recovers its reproduction cost, because the cash generated is immediately ploughed back into investing in more selections.

We do hope you support us in our efforts and that you believe in what we do.

We ask that you help us spread our small word about what we do by maybe letting people on an e-forum know about us, telling your pastor and church librarian, or if you have a website linking to us.

Also, if there's a book out there that should be made available again, please let us know!  Or consider a donation of your copy (which we'll return to you) to help.

Or if you're part of a charity that helps the People of God, why not "Adopt a Book" and recieve a significant portion of the profit to help your charity. Just email us for details or call to have a chat.

There are printing discounts we can pass along for multiple copy orders, so feel free to get in touch.

And please consider saying a prayer for our work.

Kindest Regards

The Publishers

 

 

 

 

 

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - - Aristotle.